Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. - Infinite Black Inside
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Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. - Infinite Black Inside
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: FO – FO02
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: May 15, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub, Broken Beat, Jazz, Funk, Trip-Hop
Thirty years into a career built on handmade setups and purely intuitive creation, Brighton's Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. arrives at his most interior and vulnerable record to date. Infinite Black Inside was born from the most extreme of circumstances — a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, two subsequent heart attacks and a compromised immune system forcing total isolation, severing Alfa completely from the outside world. Where another artist might have gone silent, Alfa cracked open a different kind of creative infestation. Out crawled the most human record of his career.
Twelve tracks reflecting qualities of techno, jazz, broken beat and dub-wise ambience that never quite settle anywhere — embracing disorientation as a sustained, enigmatic state. Latent and Iyaka press on narcotic low-ended rumbles while chiming, wobbly synths oscillate between sedation and groggy half-awakening. Drum Slinger is something else entirely: percussion scattered like muscle memory, jazz inflections flickering at the edges, the body relearning its own coordinates. The record's most arresting moment, Naked Lunchbreak, transforms a genuinely harrowing medical experience into an auditory tranquilliser — an illusion-inducing anaesthetic that calms, loves, soothes. Released on Brian Foote's FO label, Infinite Black Inside charts fear, survival, memory and creativity locked inside the same room with mortality close by.
Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. - Infinite Black Inside
