ÌFÉ mixes Cuban Rumba with the digital sounds of Jamaican Dancehall, creating a musical space and expression altogether its own.
ÌFÉ, captured in a live, 1 take performance in ILÉ ÌFÉ, the studio and house of Otura Mun in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
A powerfully progressive synthesis of electronic sound and Afro-Caribbean language, ÌFÉ is a bold new musical project from Puerto Rico based African American drummer/producer/singer Otura Mun. Mun, an Ifá priest or Babalawo in the Yoruba religion, has been a vanguard artist in the Puerto Rican music scene since his arrival there in the late 1990’s, producing critically acclaimed albums and songs for many of the islands most important musical voices.
Hailed as an R&B slow burner, “House of Love (Ogbe Yekun),” ÌFÉ’s second single is a ghostly, beckoning musical offering. Recorded live using improvised electronic instruments, ÌFÉ mixes Cuban Rumba with the digital sounds of Jamaican Dancehall, creating a musical space and expression altogether its own. At times tender, at other moments seductive and flirtatious, the song is an invitation / an offering to those forces that walk among us and a reminder that life is nothing if not a constant act of giving to receive.
Directed by Otura Mun and Luis R. Vidal
Written: M. Underwood for Discos Ifá (ASCAP)
ÌFÉ is…
Director and Founder: Otura Mun
Musicians: Rafael Maya, Beto Torrens, Kathy Cepeda, Anthony Sierra, and Jhan Lee Aponte
Dancers: Jorvian Santana Ayala and Walian Sànchez
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://soundcloud.com/grupoife
BANDCAMP: http://grupoife.bandcamp.com/track/ho…
ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hou…
INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/_IFE
FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/grupoife
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/grupo_ife
Management + Booking:
Laurène Chanson
[email protected]
US Press Contact:
Paul Dryden
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Website: http://www.ife-music.com
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