https://mrfreddy.bandcamp.com/album/otupam-sessions-remixed

05 Kanimambo - Saudades (Healer Oran Remix)

04 Instavel Shuffle (Kanif the Jhatmaster Remix)

03 Por Favor Mi Amigo (Questin Remix)

02 Qual E O Segredo (Sydney Remix)

01 First Impressions Count (Nandele Remix)

03 Por Favor Mi Amigo Remix Ft. Mistarhythm

Part 1 (this ship is slowly sinking)

released June 21, 2018

Mwesigwa ‘Marcus’ Kisaakye – Drum kit, percussions
Ralph Louis Smit – trumpet, kalimba, mbira, voice, luvengo flute, whistles, bells, soundscapes, loops and electronics
Additional sounds, samples and synths by Sydney

Recorded at Semitone Studios on the 28th February 2018
With additional recording from Sydney’s bedroom on the 1st March 2018
Engineered by Alexandros Hatzinikolaou

Produced by Sydney (George Sydney Weston)
Mixed down by Sydney & Louis Grainger
Mastered by Sam Stewart

Lay of the Land

Meandering Missions

Sydney - Stepping Out (Intro)

Moments in the Field

Sydney - Urban Fragments (Interlude)

Matola Traffic

It Shall Be

Kanimambo/Saudades

Instavel shuffle

Por favor mi amigo

Releases on February the 5th 

https://mrfreddy.bandcamp.com/releases

Otupam sessions or Maputo sessions is a series of lofi moments captured in Mozambiques capital, a bustling city of colours and movement. 

Mr Freddy headed out for a gig at the acclaimed Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, a cultural centre in the heart of Maputo directed by award winning author Mia Couto. There they met up with Chris Born who invited the duo to check out his newly opened studio. 

In the morning, after a long night eating Chinese takeout, listening to music and having lengthly discussions with beat maker extraordinaire and long time friend Nandele Maguni and the journalist and Dj Tvares Cerbola they headed out to Chris's studio with no expectations in mind. 

What followed was a very informal tracking of some improvisations. Drums, captured by one sole condenser microphone and Kalimba through a crunchy tube amp, captured with another condenser microphone. Afterwards Ralph jumped back in with his trumpet and improvised over the take, and that was that... 


A while afterwards Ralph, finding some time on his hands during lockdown in France went back to that session and cut it up into comprehensive tracks. Looping and merging moments and adding some synths to fill out the ambience and contours of the movements. 

Heavily inspired by the music and philosophy of Philip Kelan Cohran, Makaya McRaven’s In the Moment and Arthur Russell’s First Thought, Best Thought. 

Veering from their usual process that is heavily reliant on live loops for texture, here we have a very fluid and flowing duo that creates a portrait of a vibrant city loved by the duo.

Qual e o segredo

First Impressions Count

Mr. Freddy is a Duo of versatile drummer Mwesigwa Kisaakye and Multi-Instrumentalist Ralph Louis Smit, they inhabit a sonic realm that draws on Fourth World ideas, improvisation, world music, electronic pallets and psychedelic hues. 

They fuse world music, break beats, free jazz and minimalism into something entirely their own, their performances are transporting, intimate and intense yet groovy and driving, often described as putting the audience in a trance. Forward thinking and ancient, a unique voice of alternative instrumental music hailing from the Kingdom of eSwatini.

Mr Freddy Duo

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