Ausecuma Beats X Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange: Deep Heat / Tropical Storm

Early in 2020, the music community was forced to close it's doors, not only to the outside world, but to each other. Creative partnerships were lost, performances canceled, studio sessions scrapped. In response to these limitations, as is often the case, innovation and cooperation blossomed. Melbourne's Music in Exile label, a not-for-profit aimed at profiling musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds that give the city it's world-class reputation in the arts, started the Building Bridges series, a collection of recordings aimed at keeping individuals connected and inspired during lockdown. One such project was a match made somewhere in musical heaven. The minds behind Ausecuma Beats, a nine-piece, Melbourne-based ensemble comprised of members from Senegal, Mali, Cuba and Guinea, spent weeks recording and sharing material remotely with the Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, also known as Z*F*E*X. Themselves a semi-improvised collective or ensemble of sorts, Z*F*E*X compr