Biography

Salami Rose Joe Louis is a multi-instrumentalist female producer from California and a signee to Flying Lotus’s independent label Brainfeeder. Drawing influences from jazz, soul, hip-hop, pop, Shuggie Otis, Captain Beefheart, Stereolab, and R. Stevie Moore, she creates a blend of experimental dreamy sounds with jazz influenced vocals and keys. She released her debut album on Brainfeeder “Zdenka 2080”, a conceptual sci-fi album that has been described as a “stunning interdimensional travel themed new album” by Gigwise. “Zdenka 2080” was nominated for Giles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards for best album of 2020. She had the honor of joining Flying Lotus’ Flamagra Tour, the Cinematic Orchestra’s European tour, Toro y Moi’s “Outer Peace Tour”, TuneYards US. tour August, and supported acts Clairo, MNDSGN, Homeshake, and Still Woozy in 2022. She was recently featured on Toro y Moi’s new album, Mahal, and she did a remix for Hiatus Kaiyote’s new record on Ninja Tune/Brainfeeder and was featured on Free the Robots most recent album. Her production journey began with the acquisition of a roland MV8800 in 2014, catalyzing a deep dive into the production world, self recording and mixing her albums on the MV, "Son of a Sauce", "Zlaty Sauce Nephew", “Zdenka 2080”, and “Chapters of Zdenka”. Her next record Akousmatikous will be coming out in May 2023. Drawing from her studies in planetary sciences, she creates a unique experience filled with space inspired sounds and galaxy chords:)