Music can have a healing influence, but in the hands of South African artist, Desire Marea, it goes much further. Trained as a sangoma, or spiritual healer, his music is a hybrid of many influences, incorporating Zulu and English, gqom and amapiano, and addressing topics of queerness, self-expression and African ancestry and identity. Daniel Miller first heard Marea’s music around that time. As the founder of Mute — a label known for releasing works from electronic acts like Erasure, Depeche Mode and Goldfrapp — Miller quickly…
