Tonight DJ Zero features the new album by Kenyan musician Nyokabi Kariũki, largely concerning her time spent in the United States during the lockdown and her experiences with long Covid, interspersed with other recent tunes that inhabit the same sonic universe, describing largely female inhabitation of the body in (foreign) space. Then there’s a Ryuichi Sakamoto track, and then a bunch of new New Zealand releases picked up on a recent Bandcamp Friday. (Thanks to Roy of Roy’s Time Machine (Saturday mornings from 7 to 10 on RadioActive.FM) for turning us all on to Acclimate’s ‘Dreams Of A Mad Titan’)

Nyokabi Kariuki – Subira (Feeling Body, 2023) (Kenyan, working un NY)
Mira Calix – There Is Always A Girl With A Secret (Absent Origin, 2021) (South African, worked in UK)
Nyokabi Kariuki – feeling body (Feeling Body, 2023)
KMRU – tor (glim, 2023) (Kenyan, working in Berlin)
Nyokabi Kariuki – fire head (Feeling Body, 2023)
Liew Niyomkarn – You And Me In The Original Time (I Think Of Another Time When You Heard It, 2022) (Thai parentage, brought up in Brussels, working in LA)
Nyokabi Kariuki – quiet face (Feeling Body, 2023)
Lisel – Plainsong (Patterns for Auto-Tuned Voices and Delay, 2023) (American)
Nyokabi Kariuki – folds (Feeling Body, 2023)
Supriya Nagarajan – Moods Of Madhukauns (Posse Of Fireflies, 2022) (Indian, working in UK)
Nyokabi Kariuki – Nazama (Feeling Body, 2023)
Hinako Omori – Will You Listen In (A Journey, 2022) (Japanese, working in UK)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – water state 2 (async, 2017)
Acclimate (NZ) – Oblivion (Dreams Of A Mad Titan, 2020)
Ultra Spikes (NZ) – The Memory Temple (Ultra Spikes, 2022)
Sunset Temples (NZ) – Beyond the surface of things (part three) (sunset temples, 2023)
Frances Libeau (NZ) – Just After That Half-light (Fiona Clark: Unafraid OST, 2022)
Diana Tribute (NZ) – The Winnowing Wet (Bellwether, 2023)
Smelly Feet (NZ) – Master Pieces (Smelly Neu Pollution, 2022)
Straitjacket Fits (NZ) – Quiet Come (Melt, 1990)
R. Ring – War Poems (War Poems, We Rested, 2023)