Mas Aya

Mas Aya's 'Máscaras' Is a Rewarding Sonic Revolution

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2021

How do you touch the present? That might have been the single question guiding Brandon Valdivia's newest Mas Aya record, Máscaras ("Masks")...

Mas Aya Details New Album 'Máscaras'

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2021

Mas Aya — the prolific Toronto-based producer/percussionist and collaborator to U.S. Girls, Sandro Perri and Sook-Yin Lee — has announced p...

Stream Witch Prophet's New Album 'DNA Activation'

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2020

While a release show planned for next month was ultimately postponed, Witch Prophet's new album DNA Activation has arrived nonetheless, and...

Mas Aya

Megaphono, Gatineau QC, February 8

PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2018

The music that Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Brandon Valdivia makes as Mas Aya carries strong messages, exploring themes of Indigenou...

Mas Aya

Nikan

PUBLISHED Dec 28, 2017

The word "nikan" exists in a variety of cultures around the world: to the Yoruba people of Africa (and Cuba) it means "alone," and to the P...

Mas Aya

Kairos

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2013

Brandon Valdivia's musical journey tracks many trails: from free improvisation to indie rock, jazz to tribal. This particular entity spring...

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Pockets

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

Mas Aya is an alter ego of Brandon Valdivia, a multitalented drummer in Toronto, ON, who has worked in intense free-improv (Not The Wind, N...