One of the major aspects of a record label's job is to review all the demos that are being sent in and decide which ones have the potential to be good releases. One day in the autumn of 2013, we received a demo by a guy called Sean Piñeiro in our inbox. We immediately felt his particular sound was special and that his music had a quality of its own. Sean wasn't quick to settle on a particular musical style or a living location. After he left his anthropology studies in Utrecht, he moved to NYC to pursue a degree in music composition at City College of New York. Shortly after he completed his undergraduate degree, he moved to Europe. Sean Piñeiro makes sample based music. He's a constant observer of his environment and finds elements for his production from different sources regardless of their quality or rarity. This can be samples from movies, commercials, youtube videos, cartoons and music far away from the dance floor like Jazz, Folk and Classical. Like in a musical mosaic, he combines these elements to one stringent sound story, filled with anecdotes and short stories that were written between Brooklyn, Barcelona and Berlin. His work is like a musical diary. "It makes me happy that my ableton session is the meeting place of so many different pieces of music and other samples that have seemingly nothing in common" as he says. The oldest track on that album is Reaper, which was made in Piñeiro's closet in Brooklyn, because at the time the only room he had to fit his studio in was his closet.... Literally, it was a closet. Reaper is a driving down tempo beat accompanied by dreamy melodies and sound fragments that slowly sneak in from the background. Grounds is dominated by a yearning piano and a nostalgic-raw soul vocal that is combined in his very clean arrangement and production. In Tunnel To Castle a repetitive rhythm meets a vocal sample with a deep meaning if you listen closely. Medallion combines a rich choir with understated wind instruments and the listener gets lost in an ocean of sound. The complexity of Piñeiro's work is what made Ki records decide to release Piñeiro's debut album.