VELO EP by Kaleema

Argentine composer Kaleema debuts on Earthly Measures with a new EP, ‘Velo’, to be released on June 24th of this year. In its name it anticipates a concrete and expansive work that marks times of change in which we suspend ourselves for listening.

Velo, opens the album signifying a mutation, a movement inspired by a breakthrough as personal as it is musical that joins the poetry it offers us. Heidi Lewandowski returns to her training as a violinist and composes with fragments of dub sound, echoes, layers of percussion and remarkable string arrangements. The narrative contains the initiatory force to reinvent ourselves from within and to break through to the other side: if I resonate/break the veil.

The track Cántaro contains the dynamics that showcase their signature percussion-driven sound and we recognize Kaleema and their previous evolving works. With global influences from the electronic music she often collaborates with, she leads us over the nuances provided by her distinctive voice: light and hypnotic. The versatility of this producer in search of sounds ranging from electronic music to the most complex composition makes her production increasingly enriching.

The third cut, Eclipse, produced in the key of slow dance track gives a twist to the aesthetics of ‘Velo’ turning the EP into a varied production.

The album has two remixes, the first collaboration of Velo is made by the producer Chancha Vía Circuito who appears with his particular sound generating a pleasant counterpoint in the album and reminds us of the remarkable and harmonious artistic dialogue of these two artists. Towards the end the second collaboration in the hands of Ecuadorian producer and DJ Joaquín Cornejo puts us in front of a rhythmic piece loaded with organic groove.

‘Velo’ is composed with the strength of an artist who has not stopped these years maintaining constant tours in America & Europe and is about to begin a long series of concerts in México, Spain, Germany, Greece & Portugal, with this soundtrack that anticipates her performances.

MUSIC BY KALEEMA Heidi Lewandowski
MIXED BY Andrés Oddone for Bugambilia Estudio
MASTERIZED BY Sebastián Cordovés
DISTRIBUTED BY Earthly Measures
ART Candelaria Aaset
PHOTOGRAPH Eli Portela
TEXTS BY Magui Dávila
2022