An electronic producer and trained sound engineer based in Germany, whom his Resident Advisor bio calls "a nomad of modern times." He folds instrumentation picked up on his travels into deep, organic, melodic house. "Man O To" first surfaced on Acid Pauli's Get Lost V in 2012 and became a slow-burning modern classic, then got its own Crosstown Rebels single in 2017. The vocal is Iranian singer and actress Ghazal Shakeri, sampled from a recording by French film composer Armand Amar. She's singing a ghazal by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, from the Divan-e Shams. The refrain "man-o to" just means "you and I." The opening line translates roughly as "blessed is that moment when we sit together on the veranda, you and I; two forms and two faces, but one soul."
From the notes for EKHO Sonic Chill #2 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
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