“Amigo” is also a vocal album – incorporating talents of Armelle Pioline of Paris-based band Holden, Chilean vocalist Washingtone Miranda or Jorge Gonzales, one of Chile’s pop music finest exports it reads like a songbook from a completely new time and place, a songbook for a parallel universe where the very roots of music meet exotic sounds from the future.
“I’m concentrating more on the particular feeling than overall effect” – says Pier, and this is exactly what “Amigo” is about. This is the music of feelings, glimpses of memories, half-forgotten songs played through radio static, warm and deeply humane. Channeling Latino folk through the experiments of ethnically inclined artists of yesteryear, digitalizing ethnic rhythms in a way far more sophisticated than any other producer, blending together the most humane and individual feelings with digital machines, “Amigo” clearly is a new step in electronic music and a firm statement of a conscious, living, loving artist.