Harmonious Thelonious

German electronic musician Stefan Schwander uses the name Harmonious Thelonious for his danceable excursions which draw connections between hypnotic, repetition-based forms of music such as minimalism, Detroit techno, and African drumming. While the project often leans toward rough, post-industrial textures, particularly on early efforts like 2010's Talking, he channels early, stripped-down house on buoyant releases such as 2016's International Dance Record, and he incorporates traditional Arabic and African acoustic instruments into the winding polyrhythms of recordings like ...