Thylacine – Dokido

Find “Dokido” by Thylacine on plusfm, taken from the album “ROADS Vol.3“.

Composer : Rezé William
Label : Intuitive Records
© 2025 Intuitive Records.

After traveling along the Andes Mountains for Roads Vol. 1, then crisscrossing the Faroe Islands for Volume 2, William Rezé, aka Thylacine, took his aluminum caravan-studio to Namibia for the third and final time. Accompanied by his partner, videographer Cécile Chabert, Thylacine once again immersed himself in local cultures to create this album, which leans towards ethnomusicology without ever fully embracing it.

In fact, the French musician simply recounts his encounters: with the Himba of Ozohere, whose chants are sampled on “Dokido” and “Nawa”; with the Mafwe on the sunny “Mafwe,” one of the album’s best tracks; and the more somber encounter with the history of the Herero and Nama genocide on the magnetic “Shark Island,” the album’s centerpiece.

And, quite simply, with nature itself, which he recorded daily. On Goodnight, animal cries and footsteps are laid over hypnotic techno, while Chronological Soundscapes concludes the album with seven minutes of field recordings in the savannah. While there is a desire to document, it is the desire to immerse oneself and co-create that truly dominates this album, which brings to a close one of the finest chapters in French electronic music of the last decade.

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Thylacine – Dokido