Organic-Electronic remixes inspired by the sensitive and mystical spaces between land and sea.
When Atlanta-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Piper Street Sound, aka Matt Mansfield, created his intimate sonic landscape Barrier Island (2017) he drew inspiration from Georgia's Sea Islands. The EP saw the producer's kaleidoscopic talents through the prism of Georgia's crown jewel, the beautiful but imperiled Cumberland Island. Barrier Island focused on water and nature, displaying Mansfield's signature production style; electronic timbres woven into dubby organic instrumentation and naturalistic sounds.
Now an array of like-minded producers have remixed his work, and brought their own colors to bear, taking the source material into new spaces. Featuring remixes by Kaleema, Jin Yerei, El Buho, Andres Oddone, and Santi of Santi & Tugce. Most have chosen the album's final set-piece al-lu-vi-al, an exploration into dripping rhythms and splashes of Dub-infused spring reverb. These remixes provide book-ends and centerpiece to the work, with tunes Georgic and ZikaZikaZika rounding out the set list.
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Cumberland Island, the inspiration for this EP series, is one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the East Coast. Once owned in turns by the Spanish military, plantation-based agricultural concerns, and Gilded Age robber barons, the bulk of the island was gifted in perpetuity to the National Parks Department to remain a wild, undeveloped National Seashore in 1972. Cumberland Island is at the time of this writing in danger of being carved up and developed. Disruption of the aquatic and avian species and their food sources that season on and around Cumberland Island would have disastrous effects on a global scale.
Learn More:
www.georgiaconservancy.org/coast/cumberland/zoning/
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Andres Oddone
Andres Oddone splits his time between the production of artists, several cultural activities and other music projects. As an engineer and artistic producer he has worked with artists such as Chancha VÌa Circuito, Frikstailers, Boogat, Tremor, Faauna, Eme Dj, Gato Muñoz, Lagartijeando and Kaleema, amongst many more.
He was one of the members of ZORT, music project that fused jazz / dub / electronica and published 5 albums with an original sound that has been recognized all throughout the world in the experimental music scene.
Ever since 2010 he is the editor of Cassette blog, a platform that groups different branches of the new independent music of the world with its focus in Ibero-america.
Currently he co-directs Peak Time Lab, the home of projects specialized in the development of interactive and technologic art pieces.
With his music, workshops and live shows, Andres has presented himself in different cultural centers, festivals and clubs in India, Spain, Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, Mexico, Cuba and Argentina.
www.facebook.com/andresoddone
www.twitter.com/andresoddone
shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/aura-ep
cassetteblog.com
El Búho
British born producer Robin Perkins has been working as El Búho, his own musical project which has become globally renowned for his take on “organic electronic” music, fusing Latin American traditions with natural sounds and electronic production, since 2012. He has become a key figure in the emerging scene of organic electronic or Andean electronic music alongside artists such as Nicola Cruz, Chancha Via Circuito and Matanza.
He has released seven EPs on labels including Meles Meles, Shika Shika, Wonderwheel Recordings and the trendsetting Buenos Aires based label ZZK Records, each showcasing his evolving sound and style and cementing him as a key artist in the global scene. He released his debut album “Balance” to critical acclaim in November 2017, also through the US based label Wonderwheel Recordings and he is currently working on his second album.
His songs have been selected in eleven of Spotify’s official playlists, his remix of Chancha Via Circuito has over one 4.2 million plays on Spotify, his single Mañana Tepotzlan reached over 1.36 million plays and, since 2015, he has grown to an audience of over 1.3 million regular listeners. His tracks “Esperando La Tormenta” and “History of Colour” were both used by Vice in two different documentary films. El Búho has also collaborated with names such as Bolivian folk legend and former ambassador to France Luzmila Carpio, as well as Lucas Santanna, Chancha Via Circuito, Mercedes Nasta, Fernando Milagros and many more.
El Búho has played all over the world including internationally recognized festivals such as Lollapalooza, Bahidora and Comunité, as well as playing his live sets in Paris, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Madrid, Mexico City, and Amsterdam, and participating in two live Boiler Room sessions, one of which now has almost 1 million views on YouTube.
Alongside his El Búho project, Perkins also co-founded the global music collective Shika Shika, which has released music by over 25 emerging artists from around the world fusing together traditional music and electronic music in new forms. In 2015 he curated “A Guide to the Birdsong of South America”, a crowd funded, non-profit album that brought together some of the best new talent from South America and used electronic music to raise over $15,000 USD to help save endangered birds in in the continent.
www.facebook.com/ElBuhito
twitter.com/EI_Buho
www.instagram.com/lowflyingowl/
soundcloud.com/el-buho
shikashika.bandcamp.com
Jin Yerei
Jin Yerei is the A/V project of Federico Sánchez Maidana, which recreates new ways of merging various forms of Latin American folklore with abstract and organic electronics, creating a hybrid of meditative and danceable rhythms.
Through the fusion of old and modern sounds, Jin Yerei tells stories of ancient songs using a sonic palette enriched by samples of Afroamerican compositions, synthesizers, rhythm machines and field recordings, among other elements.
Jin Yerei is also an active member of the collective of artists and record platform called Fértil Discos, with internationally renowned artists such as El Remolón, Chancha Via Circuito, Lulacruza, SidiRum, Barda, San Ignacio, Camanchaca, El Pastiche and more. Together with horizontal and cooperative union, they delve into musical communion between artists for a single cause: good music regardless of genre.
www.jinyerei.com.ar
www.soundcloud.com/jinyerei
www.facebook.com/jinyerei
www.instagram.com/yereijin
www.mixcloud.com/jinyerei
www.twitter.com/jinyerei
Kaleema
Perhaps in the past it was only travelers who brought about an interchange of material goods, knowledge, and sounds. Before there were recording formats and musical syntheses it would have been migration itself that shaped music, and those initial fusions are now characteristic of contemporary music. This mixing of self in dialogue with place, and new possibilities in digital formats, has made it possible for Kaleema (Heidi Lewandowski) to give voice to a nomadic project able to question all notions of fixed identity.
This composer has known how to unite sounds from different peripheries, her music is a big backpack loaded with essences of nature, and the sensitivity to use classical instruments as tools in her digital creations. Her rhythms arise out of a connection between the body and it’s movements and pulsations. All of this plus her ability to exist in a new and alternative musical genre opens possibilities to redefine and discover musical stories that have yet to be written.
Kaleema’s music is a beautiful collision of the exotic and the organic. In it, you hear the soft textures and warm melodies of South American and African folk musics melding with the clean beats of modern electronic sounds.
www.facebook.com/kaleemasounds/
www.instagram.com/kaleema_/
www.youtube.com/channel/UC90iTQeOxhkBYHyZBh9Lgtg
twitter.com/kaleema_
soundcloud.com/kaleema_ba
Santi
Santi (Santiago Ferreira) is a composer, producer and multimedia software developer/ designer from Asunción, Paraguay. He is currently based in Berlin after living for more than a decade in the United States. Santi’s music draws upon elements of Afro-Latin and Middle Eastern Percussion, Western Classical Composition, Jazz Harmonization, and digital sound design. All of Santi’s music is original composition with no sampling of other artists' material. Rooted in the richness of diverse musical traditions that inform his musical palette, Santi’s productions weave together soulful melodies, captivating harmonies, colorful orchestration, polyrhythmic percussion, and deep bass lines with a keen sensibility for the dance floor.
To this date, Santi has produced six albums, independently and in collaboration with Tuğçe Kurtis. Santi & Tuğçe’s El Regreso del Gallito (2016) was released on Frente Bolivarista and received critical acclaim. Thump Vice Brazil noted that with El Regreso del Gallito, “Santi & Tuğçe rewrote Paraguayan folklore” and Red Bull Music Academy Panamérika lauded it as a great production. Their album Songs for My Grandmother (2017) was released on Souq Records, and selected by Beehype as one of the best releases from Turkey in 2017. Currently residing in Berlin, Santi has a new album (or two!) planned for 2018.
santiandtugce.com
santiandtugce.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/santiandtugce
soundcloud.com/santi-productions
Piper Street Sound
Piper Street Sound (Matt Mansfield) is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound engineer with a specialty in Dub Reggae. With over twenty years experience playing and touring the U.S. with bands across genres, as well as years working in record label management, Mansfield has developed a deep working knowledge of audio, and an understanding of what it is like on both sides of the mixing console. Matt maintains a studio in Atlanta and works as a manager for the Latin American label ZZK Records.
piperstreetsound.com
piperstsound.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/piperstreetsound/
www.instagram.com/piperstreetsound
soundcloud.com/piperstreetsound
open.spotify.com/artist/5MniNF7XZrnByqRrNoUUnV
twitter.com/gmattgregg
www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nbhgbPtcylDP46aZNrGLw 
