With Panda Bear and Sudan Archives, Teebs releases a masterful album, blending abstract hip-hop and lavish instrumentals. An accomplished artist with a unique style, Teebs paints a picture with his music that reflects his parallel activities as a producer and painter. His ideas seem to emerge from a luminous ether, though sometimes masked by clouds, to deeply absorb the listener's attention. Lush, revealing different layers, his music speaks to the mind as much as the body, with a sense of hyper-reality that leaves us curious, relaxed, and perplexed all at once.
Using his creativity as a weapon to navigate through all periods of his life, good and bad, Teebs exhibits his paintings in galleries, tours the world with the Brainfeeder galaxy, and strives daily to express the beauty and chaos of our world through his art. Far from trends and imposed cycles, in a cosmic relationship with his art and future generations.
After a five-year wait, Teebs (aka Mtendere Mandowa) is finally preparing to release a new album (Anicca) featuring a host of guests, including Panda Bear (Animal Collective) and Sudan Archives. The album fuses Teebs' luminous and fluid productions with the colorful contributions of his guests. Recorded at home, the album highlights his preferred tools - Roland SP-404 sampler, Mellotron M4000D synthesizer, Seprewa (Harp-lute from Ghana), guitar, and laptop. A captivating success, somewhere between Ryuichi Sakamoto-esque instrumentals and beat music worthy of Los Angeles' finest hip-hop eras!
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