Squonk
Fate Healer of Yesterdays Tomorrow
Gambian proggers Squonk have been one of the leading black African Prog outfits (in recent times) to blast their Proggin' stuff from one of the old British colonies. Their new album Fate Healer of Yesterday's Tomorrow was described by The Enid’s Nick May as “… a mix of Neo-Native Cultural-Root-Core Sub African Euro-Prog with Genesis/Floydian respect”

It's good to see that Prog is now as multi-cultural and not just left in the hands of English public school boys and the stinking Germans. Italians and Dutch. Nick May (ex-Jadis) financed, recorded and produced their CD whilst in Kenya, working for the charity Feed the World with Prog, and he made an important discovery. Silhobbit spoke to Nick about his find. "Squonk handed me their demo at a Progressive Missionary Centre. I didn't think it was even worth listening to when I saw the cover, luckily I did! The band don't have much Prog-dosh and I thought that they had potential so we met up and I signed them to my own May-onnaise Records label and now they've recorded a CDI!" he said. “I thcn phoned up my old mate Cheese Pasty and he agreed to do the artwork for it which is a wizard rolling dice onto a sundial" he added.

The excellent album contains 8 songs including the epics No M'Zamo and the rhythmic tribute Supper's Ready (when the drought ends).

Squonk’s CD Fate Healer of Yesterday's Tomorrow is available from GFT, GEP and The Afro-Pro Centre.