MD Pallavi, Andi Otto

Flute Boy is a harbinger of the forthcoming debut album Songs for Broken Ships by MD Pallavi and Andi Otto. The two tracks are physically exclusive to the 7“ single.

Flute Boy is a folktronica lullaby, a cute waltz with traces of dub and acid in the finish.
The B-side, Look Again, presents an almost neoclassical ballad with MD Pallavi's vocals floating expansively over a wonderful framedrum groove.

The two artists have been working as a duo since 2016, when they took hearts by storm with MD Pallavi's mesmerizing vocals for the downtempo raga Bangalore Whispers and other collaborative tracks. The worldwide attention for their music had them touring Japan and deepening their mutual musical exploration in artistic residencies in Bangalore and Hamburg, their respective hometowns.

On their new recordings, MD Pallavi contributes songwriting in her native Kannada, one of India's many languages, which have their own vocabulary and script. Andi Otto co-composed and produced the songs. The process took three years, and the results show an interwoven aesthetic vision of two artists with contrasting musical backgrounds.

MD Pallavi is a singer, actress and filmmaker from Bangalore, South India, who trained in Hindustani classical music and has been performing Indian poetry since childhood. Andi Otto is a composer, cellist and DJ from Hamburg, Germany, known for his idiosyncratic and unconventional dance music productions for labels such as Multiculti, Shika Shika and Pingipung.