SECRET PLANET STATE COLLEGE

PHOTAY

MONDAY OCTOBER 21

SIDNEY FRIEDMAN PARK

241 S Fraser St, State College, PA 16801

6:00PM

W/ KEVIN SIMS & LUISA MEI

Gorinto x 3 Dots Present Secret Planet: International Sounds in Rural Spaces will establish a landmark series of diverse global music performances in rural Central PA, connecting a decentralized consortium of curators, musicians, and producers presenting international performances across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

Photay is the alias of Woodstock, NY-based composer, drummer, DJ, producer and musicalpolymath Evan Shornstein. As Photay, he has recorded a quartet of albums that organically bring togetherintricate chamber-pop arrangements, post-techno electronic textures, and a love of Black Atlanticpolyrhythms. With the London-based Afro-Latin group Penya, and the Tanzanian gogo musician MsafiriZawose, Photay has made an album under the name WEMA (Swahilifor “kindness” and “benevolence”), amulticultural celebration of rhythm and folkways. Photay’s music is built on positive intentions. Truly.

Windswept is the fifth solo album from Photay, the nom de plume of electronic naturalist, experimental-pop beatmaker and composer Evan Shornstein. Initiated when the producer created a synthesizer patch called “wind,” the nine-song cycle is under the spell of the titular weather element, its compositions touching upon the movement of air’s influence on human existence and emotional states, our hopes and dreams. Windswept, home-rave-ready and ghostly with its machines, brings together the various versions of Photay’s trademark sonic warmth and hardware pastoralism.