Based in Berlin, the American from Ann Arbor has collected, recycled, filtered, remixed and even sung sounds of a popular variety, to immerse them in echoes of electric jazz from the Bitches Brew/In A Silent Way era, Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism, Afro-jazz, and free improvisation in an electro context. This nu soul of another kind eludes any direct comparisons, and places Laurel Halo among the most brilliant conceptualizers of the decade in the musical territory of digital art.
