Woe be to the listener who would try to put Chino Amobi in a box. Press play on any of the Richmond, Virginia-raised musician and producer’s music, and you’ll hear a mélange of sound stretching across time, space, and genre.
Michael Jackson-style adlibs shriek across thumping 808s and synth patterns; gothic piano scales twinkle under swelling digital orchestration that eventually gives way to music sounding like Whole Lotta Red-era Playboi Carti reimagined by Tron Legacy-era Daft Punk.
Unmoored from genre conventions and any particular region — a first-generation Nigerian-American, Amobi grew up feeling separated from both cultures — his ambitious blends are both grand and intimate, collages of sound…

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