More Offerings
Photay teams up with LA legend Carlos Niño on "More Offerings", reaching for ambient spirituality beyond the dancefloor.
Photay first ran into Carlos Niño in June 2016, when both musicians attended a Laraaji show in New York City. The duo embarked on a collaboration immediately; Photay remixed a Niño-produced Laraaji track and Niño played on multiple cuts from Photay's 2020 album "Waking Hours". "More Offerings" is a companion to last month's "An Offering", the duo's first opportunity to sink their teeth into something more vast and open-ended. Here they attempt to pull each other out of their respective comfort zones, still influenced by flowing water.
That's made present instantly on 'Echolocation', where Photay and Randal Fisher's manipulated saxophone blasts are spliced with watery field recordings. Those recordings play like a backbone, running through 'P U P I L (Photay’s Tributary Mix)' and flickering in-and-out of Niño's restrained, fluid percussion.
If you're wondering where Photay's usual sounds have disappeared to, a dusty pulse pokes above water on 'E X I S T E N C E (Photay’s Infinite Mix)', almost morphing into house but holding back. The second mix (with Club Diego) makes the house influence more vivid, adding jazzy keys to deepen the mood, but this is restrained material - Photay is leaning into his jazz and ambient inclinations and it works. He expands the scope on 'Floating Trio Part 3' and 'Quartet Improvisation', two tracks that sound like rare groove cuts from a lost private press LP.
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Photay teams up with LA legend Carlos Niño on "More Offerings", reaching for ambient spirituality beyond the dancefloor.
Photay first ran into Carlos Niño in June 2016, when both musicians attended a Laraaji show in New York City. The duo embarked on a collaboration immediately; Photay remixed a Niño-produced Laraaji track and Niño played on multiple cuts from Photay's 2020 album "Waking Hours". "More Offerings" is a companion to last month's "An Offering", the duo's first opportunity to sink their teeth into something more vast and open-ended. Here they attempt to pull each other out of their respective comfort zones, still influenced by flowing water.
That's made present instantly on 'Echolocation', where Photay and Randal Fisher's manipulated saxophone blasts are spliced with watery field recordings. Those recordings play like a backbone, running through 'P U P I L (Photay’s Tributary Mix)' and flickering in-and-out of Niño's restrained, fluid percussion.
If you're wondering where Photay's usual sounds have disappeared to, a dusty pulse pokes above water on 'E X I S T E N C E (Photay’s Infinite Mix)', almost morphing into house but holding back. The second mix (with Club Diego) makes the house influence more vivid, adding jazzy keys to deepen the mood, but this is restrained material - Photay is leaning into his jazz and ambient inclinations and it works. He expands the scope on 'Floating Trio Part 3' and 'Quartet Improvisation', two tracks that sound like rare groove cuts from a lost private press LP.
Photay teams up with LA legend Carlos Niño on "More Offerings", reaching for ambient spirituality beyond the dancefloor.
Photay first ran into Carlos Niño in June 2016, when both musicians attended a Laraaji show in New York City. The duo embarked on a collaboration immediately; Photay remixed a Niño-produced Laraaji track and Niño played on multiple cuts from Photay's 2020 album "Waking Hours". "More Offerings" is a companion to last month's "An Offering", the duo's first opportunity to sink their teeth into something more vast and open-ended. Here they attempt to pull each other out of their respective comfort zones, still influenced by flowing water.
That's made present instantly on 'Echolocation', where Photay and Randal Fisher's manipulated saxophone blasts are spliced with watery field recordings. Those recordings play like a backbone, running through 'P U P I L (Photay’s Tributary Mix)' and flickering in-and-out of Niño's restrained, fluid percussion.
If you're wondering where Photay's usual sounds have disappeared to, a dusty pulse pokes above water on 'E X I S T E N C E (Photay’s Infinite Mix)', almost morphing into house but holding back. The second mix (with Club Diego) makes the house influence more vivid, adding jazzy keys to deepen the mood, but this is restrained material - Photay is leaning into his jazz and ambient inclinations and it works. He expands the scope on 'Floating Trio Part 3' and 'Quartet Improvisation', two tracks that sound like rare groove cuts from a lost private press LP.
Photay teams up with LA legend Carlos Niño on "More Offerings", reaching for ambient spirituality beyond the dancefloor.
Photay first ran into Carlos Niño in June 2016, when both musicians attended a Laraaji show in New York City. The duo embarked on a collaboration immediately; Photay remixed a Niño-produced Laraaji track and Niño played on multiple cuts from Photay's 2020 album "Waking Hours". "More Offerings" is a companion to last month's "An Offering", the duo's first opportunity to sink their teeth into something more vast and open-ended. Here they attempt to pull each other out of their respective comfort zones, still influenced by flowing water.
That's made present instantly on 'Echolocation', where Photay and Randal Fisher's manipulated saxophone blasts are spliced with watery field recordings. Those recordings play like a backbone, running through 'P U P I L (Photay’s Tributary Mix)' and flickering in-and-out of Niño's restrained, fluid percussion.
If you're wondering where Photay's usual sounds have disappeared to, a dusty pulse pokes above water on 'E X I S T E N C E (Photay’s Infinite Mix)', almost morphing into house but holding back. The second mix (with Club Diego) makes the house influence more vivid, adding jazzy keys to deepen the mood, but this is restrained material - Photay is leaning into his jazz and ambient inclinations and it works. He expands the scope on 'Floating Trio Part 3' and 'Quartet Improvisation', two tracks that sound like rare groove cuts from a lost private press LP.