Lito Akari

Floating synthesizers and distorted tape deck sounds, atmospheric vocals over crackling vinyl and organic basses - Lito Akari creates weightlessness, infused with frilly beats, drifting off to classic breaks and pumping West Coast vibes. The unconventional producer blurs the boundaries between sample based production and life instrumentation. Not long after their acclaimed EP 'Sirens' (on Berlin based label 'Block Opera'), Smoke Trees and Lito Akari return with 'Monochrome Butterflies', an album full of their signature lo-fi trip hop sound. Haunting vocals overlaying smoky soundscapes so thick that warm kicks and rimshots slice through it like a butterfly knife. It is a love story, one of joy and tristesse, of emergence and decay, the eternal cycle. Each track a fragment of it. The name says it all – and this time it’s personal: I See You. Be Mine. Fall In Love, Fallin’ Apart. Party Over. You Better Stop. Delirious. Please Say Something. Forget It, I’m OK. www.lito-akari.com