St. Lucia

St. Lucia, aka Jean-Phillip Grobler, an electronic pop outfit from Brooklyn has released his first EP – a tropical electronic dream that is equally luminous and hazy.

South African born Grobler formed part of the Drakensburg Boys Choir School in his youth, which taught him everything from Bach to minimalist opera, African war songs and even Celine Dion. After feeling he had his fair share of classical music Grobler soon discovered Radiohead, which opened his mind to the possibility of experimental music. “Hearing OK Computer for the first time was like experiencing a completely new universe. I think it was also my own little form of rebellion against the rigidity of choir life.”

Early Madonna, Fleetwood Mac and Peter Gabriel form some of the artists that inspired Grobler early on in his career, he looked to this inspiration from his youth when piecing together his first EP. The EP features electronic pop with tales of the musicians global travels embedded in the lyrics enabling the listener to be transported to memories of a childhood summer.

Grobler’s aim for the EP is to provide listeners with a feeling similar to what the music from his youth provided him. With this in mind he sometimes deliberates “Are people going to get this? Are they going to think it’s cheesy?” however concludes, “What’s of real value to me is just sitting in the studio, working…All I ever want to be doing is making music.”

To download “We got it wrong” a track off St.Lucia’s EP visit http://bit.ly/MVFc5q.