Artists

Brandon Miguel Valdivia has emerged as one of the most prolific and respected musicians in Canada working as a drummer and multi-instrumentalist over the past twenty years. He has worked with artists such as Polaris Prize Winner and Grammy Award Nominated Lido Pimienta, Polaris Prize Winner Jeremy Dutcher, U.S. Girls, Bomba Estereo, Not the Wind, Not the Flag, Laaraji, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sook-Yin Lee amongst others. Mas Aya is the name of his solo project for which he has garnished international acclaim with releases on Telephone Explosion Records Shika Shika Collective receiving warm critical reception from such sources as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, CBC, the New York Times and more. His music merges jazz, electronic, Colombian and Cuban styles creating an eclectic, unclassifiable, rhythmic music teeming with subtle contradiction and restless intruige.