Mirrors, by Mala

Mirrors Box Set

Mirrors

by Mala

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fankins great rhythm great sound!

d-_-b Favorite track: Markos Swagga.

little a This is one of my favourite albums. I'm a sucker for both Andean music and Mala, but could never have imagined the two coming together so beautifully and un-gimmick-ily. A fantastical exploration of culture, rhythm and bass. Favorite track: 4 Elements.

Caleb Bratcher Wonderful mix of Peruvian beats and London dubs. Favorite track: Cunumicita (performed by Danitse).

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1.	Kotos (feat. Asociacion Juvenil Puno) 03:58 video	buy track
2.	Dedication 365 04:20 video	buy track
3.	Cusco Street Scene 04:37	buy track
4.	They're Coming 04:18	buy track
5.	Shadows 04:27	buy track
6.	Cunumicita (performed by Danitse) 02:20	buy track
7.	Take Flight 02:50	buy track
8.	The Calling 03:42	buy track
9.	Inga Gani 03:50	buy track
10.	Looney 04:09	buy track
11.	Markos Swagga 04:18	buy track
12.	Zapateo ( feat. Colectivo Palenke) 02:44	buy track
13.	Sound Of The River (feat. Sylvia Falcón) 03:19	buy track
14.	4 Elements (free) 05:27	download

about

Mirrors is the second album by endlessly influential South London producer Mala. It follows his 2012 Brownswood release where Gilles Peterson invited the producer to soak up Cuba’s music and culture to turn the results into Mala In Cuba. But Mirrors is less Mala In Cuba Mk II and more the realisation of a creative method that works for this most understated and intuitive producer: digging deep into the roots of a culture, recording local musicians and sounds, and using the re-cordings as source material and storyboard for a record.

The product of repeated visits to dive into Peru’s music, it revolves around tempo and flow, working local Afro-Peruvian percussionists, grassroots tap dancers and an Andean soprano into its four-teen tracks. Mala went there for a month, visiting Lima along with Cusco and the Sacred Valley just outside of the capital. “I was introduced to music from the jungle, music from the mountains, Ande-an sounds, native sounds, Afro-Peruvian music,” says Mala. “It all goes back to the roots and the rhythms and I related instantly. That primal rhythm is in all of us.”

Dancers bring another sound to Mirrors’ palette. Colectivo Palenke are masters of Peru’s stomping battle-dance, zapateo, and their feet-first percussion graces the track titled ‘Sabateo’. On ‘Sound of the River’, meanwhile, you can hear field recordings of a stream running through the Sacred Valley and soprano-anthropologist Sylvia Falcon. It’s a fragile and human performance that soothes and uplifts in equal measure, and it’s a most subtle production.“

Mirrors is a bridge joining Croydon and Lima. It creates a link between traditional instruments made from donkey jawbone and dried-out pumpkins and the contemporary box of tricks inside Mala’s laptop. Like all bridges it links the past to the present, giving a clear view of where Mala has been – and where he’s going next.

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released June 24, 2016

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Mala London, UK

Mirrors is the second album by endlessly influential South London producer Mala.

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May 03

Public Works

San Francisco, CA
May 10

The Black Box

Denver, CO
May 16

Aisle 5

Atlanta, GA
May 29

La Sucrière

Lyon, France

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