Artist: Arkose
Song: Pushdrive
Recorded at Sankofa Square (Intersection 2025: Day 2: All Day Music Marathon, August 30, 2025.
Back from a year's hiatus, the Intersection Festival was once again bringing some unconventional sounds to the unsuspecting public. The now formally-retitled Sankofa Square sports a decolonized name, but a slightly more carceral vibe — surrounded by metal fencing and closed off by gates right up 'til showtime, there was less of a random just-wander-through sense of invitation than there used to be.
There was also a slightly different curatorial vibe in effect. In the absence of Burn Down the Capital's Tad Michalak, Andrew Noseworthy stepped up as the main programmer, giving the day a flavour that'd be familiar to those following people | places | records, the "DIY genre-fluid 'zero profit' artists-first" label he is involved with.
The afternoon lead off with this quintet, operating with technical precision in rockband formation. Given that, they were at their best when they pushed into the sort of prog/fusion territory heard in this piece.
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