Olof Dreijer - Echoes From Mamori

  • Frogs and birds reshaped into ecstatic dance music.
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  • "Echoes From Mamori" dates back to 2009, when Olof Dreijer was tasked with creating a "theme song" to play on loop at a Spanish art gallery exhibition. He built it from animal sounds he had recently recorded in the Amazon—including what he describes as "frogs that sound like birds"—creating a 13-minute aural landscape of sorts that sounds tropical in that very specific Oni Ayhun way, like a rainforest made from fluorescent plastic and neon lights. It's not quite house or techno, but the way the piece pulsates and simmers happily for its 13-minutes recalls some of Dreijer's most glorious work, much of which came out of this same period. Lost classic or new discovery, however you see it, this is a manmade jungle worth exploring.
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