Nutritious, healing beats and dreamy, reverb-drenched vocals abound on Babylonia, the second full-length by Organi, aka Mike Walti. From the album’s opening question—”Where do we go from here?”—the half hour album sits gaily through analog-adoring trip hop, organ-fueled soul jazz, French vocal pop, space rock synthesis, and other pleasantly adjacent indie sounds.
In total, it is classic studio play from Walti, a musician and producer that has run Wyldwood Studios in the East Bay for more than a decade, recording artists like Tommy Guerrero, Spellling, Why?, Latyrx, Del, Dan The Automator, and Big Freedia. The two singles are the perfect entry points: The lush “Babylonia” like a much-needed walk in the woods and “Pictures of Your Face,” nostalgic 2000s-era indietronica featuring the Nico-like vocals of Yea-Ming Chen of Yea-Ming & The Rumors.
Out now on German label Alien Transistor.
