Photay - Trafo

Photay is the alias of 29-year-old 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.

Photo: Carson Davis Brown