One of my favourite Brazilian producers Valesuchi has finally released some new music, three years on from the excellent Tragicomic album. Cascade is a self-released 4-track EP that obfuscates genres in favour of complex percussion, vocal samples and synthesis. She mentions that Dave Smith died while she was working on this music.
Smith was the creator of the first polyphonic synth with programmable memory, the Prophet-5. Valesuchi also says that she wanted to make music ”in the time that a tree takes to grow”. Out since a couple of days ago.
