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BYR 039LP
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Marijus Aleksa is a Lithuanian cross-genre drummer and music producer who has spent his last decade touring and in session with some of the contemporary jazz greats including Joe Armon-Jones, Ashley Henry, Bill Laurance, China Moses, and many more. Manfredas is a key figure in Lithuanian electronic music community, internationally acclaimed club DJ, owner of Radio Vilnius, music producer, and remixer on releases by Andrew Weatherall, Metronomy, Erol Alkan, and more. In the past few years during the lockdowns in their hometown of Vilnius, Marijus and Manfredas started making music together under the name Santaka (pronounced San-t-ka, meaning "confluence" in Lithuanian). This collaboration was born out of their appreciation of tracks and records from the '70s blending electronic sounds with jazz, avant-garde, and global music like Herbie Hancock's Rain Dance or Don Cherry's Brown Rice. They also cite old records that used recording, editing and sampling techniques like Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and later albums, and Jon Hassel's records as inspirations. The band doesn't occupy one single space, but incorporates elements of Marijus's jazz background and Manfredas's more club-oriented offerings to produce something new, channeling the different pulsing rhythms and darker corners of their respective scenes.
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