East Lake dreams worlds for your imagination to plug into and go wild. Places to spin a thousand tales of empires and heroism. Places where mercury glistens on water lilies. Places where katanas both forge dynasties and bring them to a close.
East Lake conjures Eastern-inspired world music, under the bewitchment of records like Chinese Dub by Jah Wobble and hip hop artists like Aekasora, he uses live instruments (including traditional instruments) and samples to capture the moods, thoughts and environs.
The new track ‘Red Lanterns’ is pure bliss, as blissful as you can get get with such freakin’ badass drum beats. A looping Chinese melody glides. All is good, all is graceful. The mixing of world music with hip hop and trip hop makes for a potent brew. ‘Red Lanterns’ shines hypnosis.
East Lake is a wonderfully talented musician and artist, and what’s more he makes it sound so easy. More please!
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