Kuna Maze – My Fish Is Burning – EP / TRUDD417

RELEASE: My Fish Is Burning – EP
ARTIST(S): Kuna Maze

REMIXERS:

LABEL: Tru Thoughts | TRUDD417
GENRE: LOSSLESS, Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass
RELEASED: 2021-10-07
AVAILABLE FORMAT: 756Kbps/LOSSLESS
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 148.85 MB

TOTAL TRACKS 6

1. Kuna Maze – Bill (03:45) key, bpm132
2. Kuna Maze – Almost Gone (04:19) key, bpm80
3. Kuna Maze – Raw Beef (03:13) key, bpm120
4. Kuna Maze – Again Again (05:06) key, bpm92
5. Kuna Maze – Mask On (05:49) key, bpm124
6. Kuna Maze – Low Tide (Outro) (02:47) key, bpm92

Total Playtime: 00:24:59 min

Brussels-based producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Kuna Maze aka Edouard Gilbert announces his new EP “My Fish Is Burning” (7th October) with a jazz-bruk-banger titled “Bill” (31st August). The new single features keyboard player Doriant Dumont, who adds some extra magic touches to Kuna Maze’s layered jazz instrumentation and syncopated broken beat production.

Talking about the wonderfully bizarre EP name “My Fish Is Burning” (a nod to a Detroit-legend) Edouard says: “I was listening to a Moodymann interview on radio, and at one point he says to the interviewer; ‘hold on I gotta go, my fish is burning’. I don’t know what but it made me laugh, like he planned an interview while cooking his fish meal”.

Matching the eccentric title – sculptor, painter and long-time-collaborator Cedric Esturillo who produced the EP artwork – interprets the music into a visual form. The duo have been working together on their visual mix series “From Sight To Hearing”.

EP focus track “Again Again” showcases Kuna Maze’s ability to switch between club-oriented sounds and laid-back jazz listening; opening with broken beat before swiftly evolving into house. “Again Again” shuffles and bounces, while being grounded in jazz standards .

Elsewhere on the EP, record opener “Almost Gone” pays homage to the early bruk pioneers of Afronaut and AtJazz; “Raw Beef” plays into the broken vibes with a syncopated beat; “Mask On” is more house-leaning with floating 80s synths; and outro “Low Tide” winding the listener down, with funk and chillout to close things off.

“Bill” is the follow up single to Kuna Maze’s San-Kofa Rhythm Records compilation contribution – the slick “Check It”- that was supported by Trax Mag and Anz on her Radio 1 Residency. Influenced by the jazz-funk of Azymuth, the broken beat of Domu and house music of Moodymann, “My Fish Is Burning” is the more ebullient relation to Kuna Maze’s previous EP, the introspective “Backward” that garnered support from Jamz Supernova (BBC 1Xtra), Okayplayer and Nubya Garcia.//