Brooklyn-based purveyors of cumbia and surf have teamed with Petru Bîrlădeanu & Obeah for some psychedelic cumbia dub via Brooklyn & Transylvania.
„I still remember when I heard Ozomatli’s Cumbia de Los Muertos with Chali 2na. And then from the first time guitar player Sam Day Harmet has played me Cumbia Chuska I was hooked. These guys have inspired me to channel my Transylvanian dub energy toward latin American sounds that I love like cumbia. I had to add some of the Ethereal vocals and some poetry to the mix.
Enjoy what is probably me and Petru’s most bass heavy dance tune. Hopefully it will ring and echo for a long time in the ears of cumbia lovers but also shake some feet on the dancefloor where it belongs.” Obeah
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Obeah is an award winning musical disruptor who has been featured in IRIE Mag from San Francisco, Songlines magazine from London, had his singles featured on the BBC by Gideon Coe, Steve Barker, and Don Letts, was played by legendary producer Dennis Bovell on Soho Radio and remixed Dubokaj & Lee Scratch Perry, Dubmatix, Dub Pistols, Algiers & Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine, Prince Fatty, Ghetto Priest, Transglobal Underground, Denise Sherwood and Yann Tiersen of Mute Records.
Obeah won the Dubmatix IRIE Mag contests in 2021 alongside Marius Costache and in 2023 and the Matador Records Algiers remix contest in 2023 alongside Petru Bîrlădeanu.
He collaborates with UK label Wormhole World and Texas anarchist label eMERGENCY heARTS and is inspired by the strangest Romanian sounds, ranging from local dub to traditional reggae-dub with ska and folk-rock influences, music, and records released near the Black Sea from the 1960s to present days.
Obeah’s music was played all over the world on: BBC 6 Music, BBC Lancashire, Soho Radio, ResonanceFM, The Music Galaxy Radio, Radio Buena Vida, Australia’s National Roots’n’Reggae Show, Culture Dub from Poitiers, Berlin’s Zonic Radio, Poland’s Czwórka, Belgium’s Dub Front, KBOO Community Radio and Widgeon Future Dub Sessions.
Obeah Bucureci is the podcaster/ radio show producer on Louder Than War Radio in Manchester, PostPunk Dubby Party and also produced a show for dublab Los Angeles, The Mark Stewart show.
Petru Bîrlădeanu aka Peter Zaad is a sound engineer/ composer/ producer/ based in Bucharest, Romania with his studio/label NineBarz Music. His portfolio includes film music and sound design for Investitorii, Faci sau taci, Legatii, LoveSorry, Egregora, Odata pentru totdeauna, but also productions for artists like Ateliere & OBC, Omu Gnom, Gilbert, Damian Drăghici, Cliff Kido, Celălalt, Kazi Ploaie, Theo Rose, Doddy.
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