NOWNESS – Speakman Sound: Babamimoun Ft. Simo Lagnawi

Electronic fraternal duo Speakman Sound doesn’t disappoint in their latest visuals, which feature artwork that extends beyond the reaches of the traditional music video format. Todd and Guy Speakman enlisted London-based 3D artist Eidy Knowles, whose staggering imagination brings fictional worlds into microscopically detailed reality.

“It’s been refreshing for us to go back to our roots in making Babamimoun,” say the brothers. “The track is heavily inspired from the many times we were in a muddy field at silly o’clock in the morning raving to some hard-hitting euphoric music.”

Speakman Sound partnered with Simo Lagnawi, a Gnawan musician (traditional spiritual music of Morocco) to create a track that transitions between dancefloor fillers and religious incantation. Babamimoun evokes the deserts of North Africa and is set at the birth of an alien civilization on a game engine-inspired planet that comfortably occupies a space between Final Fantasy and Avatar.

“After visiting Morocco and falling in love with the depth of the music out there we were so excited to get in the studio with Simo,” says Speakman Sound.

Babamimoun is a testament to the unexpected beauty of collaboration and the upward trajectory that the brothers’ music and artistry are taking.

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