Ecco2k: It's Pixie Music
Unlike his debut album E, which was created in collaboration with other artists such as Yves Tumor, Gud, and Mechatok, he produced this album all on his own, and it’s a direct testament to his eccentric musical history.
For Arogundade, his artistic and personal growth have merged as one, and his personal idea of perfection has become “more about sincerity, being raw and unfiltered,” he tells us. “It’s about being okay with what I am.” This manifests itself into PXE’s reflection on the entanglements of selfhood and is reinforced by a set of visuals made in collaboration with illustrator Freddy Carrasco.
The record is accompanied by feverish and out-of-body sensations, but these ecstatic moments don’t last forever. “I wanted it to feel almost like a live album,” he says. “The songs take a transcendental, surrealist turn but that fourth wall keeps getting broken, pulling you back to this stripped, intimate place where it’s just me and a guitar.” It’s pixie music.
Read our exclusive interview with Ecco2k below.
We’re slowly getting introduced to ‘Ecco2k-verse’. How would you detail your own universe?
Being myself is something I’ve had to fight for, I think that’s why I like to talk about personhood. I get to know myself better through expressing what I feel and the expression gets sharper the more I learn abt who I am, but I think you can also see a lot more than yourself when looking inward.
How would you describe the EP's sound?
Like throwing a car battery into a washing machine.. acid wash?
What is your process when you conceptualize your vision? And what did that look like for this new album?
If creating is like speaking then I don’t really differentiate between languages in my inner monologue. When you’re fluent there’s no need to translate; I guess that’s my talent.
