Nyko Maca + Playground

Nyko Maca + Playground
Nyko Maca + Playground
Origin Manila, Philippines
Genres sambatronica, afrobeat, drum n'bossa
Experimental
Years active 2005–present
Labels infectious Records (indie)
Website Official website
Members
Nyko Maca
Madz Abubakar
Alvin Cornista
Richard Sanchez

Nyko Maca + Playground is a Filipino band. Their musical influences are diverse and wide ranging, including SamBossaBatucada a brasileira, drum 'n bass, Afro-Cuban music, trip-hop, funk, progressive house, hard bop, Afrobeat and dub.

The sum is always greater than the total of its parts.

Hailing from a land of 7,107 islands where time paces at a rate closer to the heartbeat than to the clock, it’s always been natural for Nykó and PLAYgROUND to think holistically, play intuitively, and sound cyclical. Non-linear thinking may be out of the box for some. But in the Philippines, where beliefs in the supernatural are juxtaposed with everyday practicality, magic has always been real.

In order to make this invisible voodoo more tangible NykoMaca + PLAYgROUND (NMPG) boiled the spell down to touch-sensitive music: specifically, pushing pads and keys on sterile-seeming laptops and pedals that mysteriously weave electronic incantations.

It is to elevate the status of digital music-making to new artistic heights, beginning locally and looking globally. As fans of the possibilities afforded by electronic mediums, NMPG aims to demonstrate the ways in which organic instruments such as the voice, guitar, percussion, and horns can take on new dimensions with the aid of certain tools. At the same time as the potion is predetermined and structured much as a standard in the jazz idiom, the trademark of our expression is the ability to respond spontaneously to each other and to the audience in improvisational freedom.

Members

  • Nicole Severino - Vocals and Brazilian Percussion (Caxixí, Agogô, Pandeiro, Berimbau, Atabaque)
  • Madz Abubakar - digital sound design, programming
  • Alvin Cornista - saxophone, flute
  • Richard Sanchez - guitars

Discography

  • Manifesto in the raw (2006, infectiousmusic)
  1. Maala-ala mo kaya
  2. Happyness
  3. TRIPlangTYCH
  4. Whatchouwant
  5. On My Own (Faucet)
  6. Turn My Head
  7. Grey
  8. Lacuna
  9. Ritmo Batida

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