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Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

Clockwise from upper left: Ahmed Ag Kaedy (photo: Konrad Waldmann), Psychedelic Speed Freaks (photo: Anna Aguirre), Catherine Watine, Keith Fullerton Whitman's modular synthesizer. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

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Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

After a few months taking care of his newborn, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich is back with buzzing Ethiopian hymns and Tuareg folk songs, but also white-hot psych-rock and a modular synth frenzy.

Viking's Choice: Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, More

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