duendita – bassline & big one
Following the release of their project a strong desire to survive earlier this year, New York City’s duendita share two new singles “bassline” and “big one” via 10k, today. Alongside “big one,” duendita shares the visualizer filmed at Baketown in Berlin.
duendita describes the new offerings as songs about feeling so grateful in the club, the gratitude was overflowing. duendita goes on to share, “My dear friend and collaborator Noah Becker made these beats, and we loved performing them live in harmony, so we decided to record all of our vocals on the track — Emily Akpan and Vanessa Camacho are featured vocalists. We’ve been performing together for the past 7 years, so finally collaborating in the studio was so special. I went to the club 5 nights in a row, saw the sun rise every single morning, then wrote ‘big one.’ These tracks are made with a lot of love from my family and I to yours!”
Also this year, duendita shared the standalone track “piel,” which arrived this June.
The aforementioned project a strong desire to survive was born from duendita’s transformative experience during their first extended trip to Berlin where they first met longtime collaborators Noah Becker and Anton Remy. “We would jam all the time at Baketown, our recording studio and art space in Schoenberg. It was an era where I’d write on their beats or at the piano, and I couldn’t stop writing about the pain,” they share, “all these bangers came out about how badly I wanted to live and overcome it all.”
duendita is a band from Queens, New York. They write and produce their own music, imbuing it with a reverence for their ancestry, community, and faith. Anchored by achy, bass-coated tones and mix of jazz, piano, soul and R&B, duendita’s music is evocative of the complexities and sentimentality of the human experience. Flowing in various shapes and formations, duendita is a living collaborative project made with family and friends across mediums and cities. Last year, duendita shared the project the mind is a miracle.
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