Recable

Growing up as the eldest of four in a traditional, conservative household, ‘Recable’ easily fit everywhere but chose to belong nowhere: a deliberate outsider and a good student who always preferred the edges of the room. Surrounded by the weight of high expectations, he grew up finding solace in music. Between Genesis tapes playing on repeat in his father’s old Volvo and his mother singing, playing guitar, and her records of mountain folk from Celtic to Andean, he naturally developed an intuitive ear that led him behind the drum kit and taught him how every instrument fits into a larger picture. After getting the business degree expected of him, he left the traditional path behind to study music in Australia and Germany, trading corporate status for ocean, family, deep listening and passion. He brought these lessons back home to the Chilean south coast and channeled that shift directly into his sound. Today, the sound designer and producer Francisco Perez Zanartu creates under the name ‘Recable’. Melding a sense of laid-back grit with floating layers, his tracks are arduous to label but easy to get lost in. Operating in the fuzzy, warm spaces between genres, the blurred lines between lo-fi nostalgia and an enigmatic, upbeat obscurity unroll in a way that leaves the audience met not with melancholy or hope, but rather a mixture of the two. ~Rovi