Description
A tribal deep house to experimental work by Auntie Flo, known for releases on Brownswood, HIGHLIFE, Permanent Vacation, Mule Musiq, and more!
Brian d'Souza, better known as Auntie Flo, who has roots in Scotland and Goa, presents a new musical exploration on the Multi Culti label. 'Outernational Dance' embodies his style of freely moving between different genres such as Afro-disco, Indian classical music, and dub techno.
Field recordings captured in places such as Cuba, South Korea, Uganda, and Brazil are masterfully blended with modern production techniques. Inspired by 'Esperanto', the international auxiliary language devised by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, this work is imbued with Auntie Flo's belief that music is a 'universal language'.
In addition to the elements of bioelectrical music such as 'Plants Can Dance' and 'Mushroom Music', cultivated throughout his career, the work is characterized by ambient and psychedelic soundscapes. Its message of a dance culture united with nature perfectly aligns with the Multi Culti label's philosophy of boundary-less music.
A work that highlights the most ambitious and spiritual side of Auntie Flo, who also continues his activities as the head of the A State Of Flo label.
A1. Esperanto
A2. Unua Libro
B1. El Heine
B2. Ho Mia Kor
B3. Mia Penso
Auntie Flo finds a natural home for OUTERNATIONAL DANCE on Multi Culti Throughout his long career in music, Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo has made a name for himself for his adventurous and open minded approach to music making. Travel and collaboration is key to his work, and over the course of four albums and various singles, he’s showcased music made in Cuba, South Korea, Uganda, Brazil and more, often fusing long standing musical traditions, field recordings and artist collaborations with a modern production techniques. As Auntie Flo, he has bridged not only cultural gaps as a Scottish-Goan in hybrid genres like Afro-disco, Indian Classical and Dub-Techno, but recently crossed over into bioelectrical music, with his Plants Can Dance, Mushroom Music and full-blown ambient psychedelica all housed under his A State Of Flo label and Substack. Outernational Dance helps define this expansive sound with a set of tracks that brings dance culture back to nature, inspired by ‘Esperanto’, a form of universal language created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. The notion of music as the universal language has always been at the heart of Auntie Flo’s practise and makes this new EP a perfect fit for the boundary dissolving reverie of the Multi Culti ethos: pointing the way to a better world, borderless, free and in symbiosis with nature.
