Common Market’s new EP, Black Patch War, contains some of
Sabzi’s richest productions. Each detail is lovingly made and
expressed. (Listening to it puts me in mind of South London’s
Burial, whose attention to detail is supernatural.) RA Scion, Common
Market’s rapper, is much more reflective on this effort, his words and
thoughts lost in a warm wash of music. Black Patch War stands to be one of the best works of art to come out of Seattle this
year. (Vera Project, Seattle Center, 956-8372. 7:30 pm, $7/$8, all
ages.)

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...