Roman Birds by Jorge Velez

"It’s remarkable how evocative something made with so few simple elements can be: The music licks like flame, dribbles like water, and settles, ultimately, like layers of very fine ash. Roman Birds was inspired, Velez says, by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago. Eerie, unsettling, and elegiac, it is a strangely moving tribute to that distant tragedy—and among the finest music Velez has ever made."
-- Philip Sherburne - PITCHFORK (7.9 Score)







Composed, Produced and Mixed by Jorge Velez

Sampler, Arturia Oberheim SEM


for all souls lost to Vesuvius, AD 79

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"From the lo-fi techno of his MMT Tape Series to his synth explorations as Professor Genius, New York's Jorge Velez draws on many generations of dance music." - Resident Advisor