Kelman Duran

Sharpening his diaristic outlook considerably, Dominica-American producer and filmmaker Kelman Duran leveled up this year, sampling John Coltrane, Nyege Nyege's Bamba Pana, Wadada Leo Smith and others on 'SCORPIO FALLING', a musical travelogue that snakes through the USA, Africa, the Caribbean and South America. Telling an often obscured cultural history, Duran makes the vital connections that few others have the experience or knowhow to even visualize, smearing his reference points into a philosophical meditation on time, politics and distance. And who else can boast a catalog that includes work with both Beyoncé and Nick León?