The hybrid electro/organic tracks of the New York City producer/composer/musician/and sometimes-DJ Synacure swim in deep waters of influence en route to an original voice that encompasses Brazilian, funk, disco, hip hop, House, and ambient styles. A polyglot of rhythm and a composer of unusual structures and melodies, Synacure gene-splices genres until the names don’t mean much anymore but the traces of tradition remain.
Synacure’s Ziq Street Records debut singles feature collaborations with a number of notable vocalists, poets and percussionists. Electro pioneer Strafe (of the endlessly sampled single “Set It Off”) delivers a unsettling and animated spoken word performance on “Suspicious.” On “Who Are We Now,” Last Poets founding member Abiodun Oyewole asks the real question of the moment, declaiming oracular poetry over percussion (provided by Last Poets colleague Baba Don Babatunde) and sheets of guitars, bass and keys that rise and fall and then rise again. Other tracks, such as the luminous “Late Summer,” posit a new kind of ambient music. The commonalities across all this globally-sourced diversity are sonic lushness, rhythmic subtlety, and unmistakable aesthetic purpose.