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Summer tends to tune the world to a higher frequency. Music spills in through open windows, through long nights and quiet pauses, through festival catharsis and solitary listening rituals. It gives pulse to space, shapes how we feel things, often making our heartbeats resonate with the sound.
Leo Tolstoy once wrote that “music is the shorthand of emotion“, and at Haize, we’re all about art that makes us feel strong ones. Thinking about it, it obviously brings us back to Maraña, a piece we were proud to bring to Lisbon this year, a show quite literally made from threads of it.
It felt about time to introduce or reintroduce the alchemist of rhythm whose frequencies have been vibrating through every layer of the Maraña experience. We wanted to interview the Chilean producer and live performer not only for the love of his sound but to celebrate the passion and integrity of the artists we love working with.
More Than a Sound, a Frequency
Andi Andean was born in Chile and is based in Berlin. You might have met him without realizing it, maybe at Fusion Festival in Germany, Ozora in Hungary, or Château Perché in France. If you know Suidtronica, Fértil Discos, or Cosmovision, you’ve probably danced to his touch as well. His tracks don’t chase momentum, they create openings. “I don’t make music to fill space,” he says, “I make it to open space.”
The musician doesn’t just play instruments, he builds them, pouring vision into materials that become sonic extensions of his language. Half percussionist, half sound sculptor, half druid of low end frequencies. Yes, that’s too many halves, but Andi isn’t really divisible.
His music is earthy, lush, hallucinatory. “I come from African rhythms, dub, electronic sound,” he says, “but it’s all influenced by deep rooted human lifestyles and psychedelic experiences.” No surprise there. Listening to his sets feels like entering a moss covered portal, one part jungle, one part coral reef in motion, where feet forget the floor, names dissolve, and time folds in on itself.
Ask Andi to describe himself and he’ll say, “I’m a rhythmic intelligent multi instrumentalist with a wide spectrum of sonic conceptual perception,” and oddly enough, that feels just right. After years of listening from afar, we’ve had the joy of seeing him live again, first with Maraña, then during a haunting and beautiful set at Irmão in Lisbon. In both moments, his sound felt like storytelling through vibration, building grooves that speak to the subconscious, with frequencies that move both body and spirit.
His sources of inspiration? Nature, the subconscious, the invisible things that speak loudest when you’re ready to feel them. He’s not trying to make your usual club banger, he’s trying to make you feel something. “Their own perception, their own story, a deep trip,” he says when asked what he hopes people take from his sets.
No wonder he connected so instinctively with Paula Riquelme. When she created Maraña, she told us she also wanted the audience to embark on their own inner journey, a raw and emotional trip beyond narrative. It’s a shared vision, and it’s what led them to collaborate without hesitation.
How he wove himself into Maraña
It all started in 2018, while touring through Europe. Andi met Paula, the artist behind Maraña : “We met, energies clicked, and the adventure brought me in,” he says. A year later, Berlin became home, and Andi became part of the creative core of the project. Since then, he has composed over twenty tracks for the piece, come of them alone and others with the great Kotoe.
But ask him how many really exist and he’ll smile, “Could be a hundred. Some went into the air, others are still sleeping.”
That’s how Andi speaks, like his music is alive, a fluid being, evolving somewhere in the shadows until the moment it’s ready to come to light. His live setup is equal parts jungle altar and sonic lab: percussion, vibraphones, loops, machines, voice, all channeled into a breathing ritual through Ableton.
He doesn’t just play with the performers, he plays with the space too. “I listen to the light. I react. I let the groove shape itself.” Control doesn’t interest him. “Luckily,” he adds, “I’ve never been very obedient.”
He is also the only man in a sea of powerhouse women on stage. “I have six sisters and one brother in the company. I’ve always worked with women. It’s natural,” he says. A sweetheart, confirmed.
The kindness frequency
In our experience producing events and artistic experiences with Haize, whether for public shows or more intimate private ones, we’ve noticed something simple and beautiful: kindness and openness often walk hand in hand with true talent and passion. It feels like when an artist has found their way, their calling, their frequency, kindness naturally becomes part of who they are. It radiates, it grounds them, it fills the room.
Of course, we’ve also met our share of great artists with complex characters, and we all know stories of legendary ones whose personalities were as bitter as their work was beautiful. That too exists, a lot.
But when kindness meets mastery, when the brilliance of the art mirrors the generosity of the artist, it’s something rare, and it’s something we choose. Because Haize is a passion project, and we surround ourselves with people who create from a place of depth, connection, and care.
That’s exactly how we feel about Andi. And that’s why we can’t wait to hear his music again, whether it’s with Maraña’s next visit and upcoming shows, or his next gigs, hopefully soon in Portugal. There is something deeply soothing in what he plays. It reminds us of that Bob Marley line “One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain.” And during these very hard time, we really need that goodness.
