X-Nature
About ten years ago, Alexandre Oliveira began to play tribal instruments such as the djembes, darbuka, berimbau, and didgeridoo in his hometown of Lisbon, Portugal. Around five years ago he was introduced to music production software and started making his own music based on his enjoyment of different types of music. Now, at the age of twenty-eight, Alexandre likes to experiment with different sounds as part of the X-Nature project; he considers his music to be influenced by many genres such as ethnic, tribal, reggae, dub, psychedelic, and “of course lots of sweet Afghani [weed].”
In addition to being X-Nature, Alexandre has a long-running deco project called Cosmic Lotus in which he makes decorations for electronic parties and festivals, mainly of the psytrance variety. The visual art contains complex 2D and 3D string art structures, sculptures, Lycras, and fluorescent backdrops inspired by “sacred geometry”, which he explains as the universal energy of patterns that create and unify all things. His stated objective with his art is to “break mental barriers and free your imagination creating harmony and hallucinating journeys”. Mental marijuana, perhaps?
As part of the Cosmic Lotus art project, Alexandre also makes clothing, shoes, prints, buttons, and even skateboards that he sells via Zazzle.
“THC” contains heavy use of Alexandre’s instruments of choice and of cannabis. Its hard, hi-tech, and dystopian modern beat contrasts the otherworldly rhythm of the African and indigenous sounds. Lending itself well to whistling along, this is a toe-tapping and head-nodding track that works with the drug of its title to paint a fantastic stoned soundscape.
More from X-Nature is available on MySpace and Soundcloud.
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