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It's Bullseye.

I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji in for Jesse Thorn.

My guest is the musician Ahmed Jalab, whose band is called Sincane.

Ahmed Sudanese, born in London, raised in the US, based in Brooklyn,

and he started the way a lot of musicians do as a session musician.

He was part of the backing band for acts like Ellen or Friedberger and Caribou before heading out on his own.

His music reflects a little piece of all that mixed together.

You can hear Afro beat, funk, Brooklyn, Indy Rock vibes.

There's a dash of electronic amixed in, but let's stop talking about the music and listen to it.

I think of all the people here on my journey.

How they help bring out new parts of me, when I accept my duality.

Because if I just start to fall in love, surely me is free from my chosen path.

From where I began, it moved on my own.

That's Yasudan, Afsinkane's new album, Depeche.

It's my first introduction to your work and I'm really enjoying it.

I can't believe that you've been around for so long and I've never heard of you.

Literally, they're never.

Good.

For someone like me who's just discovering your work, how would you describe this album?

How is it different from your other work?

I feel like this one is a bit unafraid.

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