SUPERCHARGED, POSITIVE ELECTRO DUB TROPICAL DANCEHALL
"Tropical rhythms, delays, distortions and melodies. Synthesizers, drum machine, EVI (electronic valve instrument), percussion and vocals. At the crossroads of a mysterious Japanese island and an Italian declaration of love."
The Japanese Amami archipelago, located in the East China Sea, takes its name from a goddess of creation. On these islands, home to endemic species of black rabbit and thrush, shochu is produced—a liqueur made from rice, barley, buckwheat, sweet potato, brown sugar, and sometimes chestnut. It's 45% alcohol.
Amami is also Ama-mi in Italian. It means: Love me. Exactly what shochu drinkers repeat on a loop after emptying their bottle.
In short, the exact origin of this name is unknown. And that's a good thing, because that's also what one feels when listening to their first EP. A big filtered siren sound, stolen from a Brixton dive bar by analogue creoles. A doubled dub voice, the hall of mirrors of the echo. This synthetic drum kit, from a Yemeni wedding. These dirty, very dirty, oily basses, a Bahian carnival.
It's as if all the parties in the world have been locked in a centrifuge and the switch has been flipped.
Amami is a trio. An equilateral triangle, in fact. A launching pad with scattered DNA, but whose birthplace is Geneva, the international, the tiny, the banker.
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