Electric Coconuts
Electric Coconuts: When Paradise Gets Plugged In
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There is something wonderfully contradictory about the idea behind Electric Coconuts.
A ukulele suggests warm air, wooden resonance and intimate strings. Steel pan immediately brings bright metallic harmonics and unmistakable island color. The didgeridoo seems to come from somewhere much deeper—a column of air producing a dense fundamental surrounded by constantly shifting harmonics. And then there is the coconut: about as technologically unsophisticated a percussion instrument as one could imagine.
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None of these instruments seems particularly interested in becoming the foundation of hard psychedelic electronic dance music.
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Which is exactly why I wanted to put them there.
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Electric Coconuts is an experiment in what happens when four very different acoustic voices are dropped into an electronic environment and are no longer required to behave according to their traditional roles.
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This isn't an album where electronic beats simply sit underneath tropical instruments. The acoustic sounds are the raw materials from which the electronic world is constructed.
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And eventually, that world starts constructing itself.
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