Ed Motta: Perpetual Gateways

ED MOTTA's music can be an acquired taste. This is not because his music is especially challenging or 'difficult' — though his use of harmony is far from simple. It's more that Motta inhabits a world of his own making which seems far removed from the everyday machinations of the post-internet music industry, from the commercial landscape of pop music and from the day-to-day concerns of many listeners and musicians.