1000Names is a Bulgarian electronic duo from Sofia known for eklekto hip-hop—playful, glitchy, built from sampling and beat collage. In May 2014, margg and nikko kept a diary during a month of transformation. Wedding preparations and uncertainties. Mountains and wet sand. Their daughter watching cartoons. Plovdiv festival nights. Mobile studio work in unusual places. Conversations about their next record, their first collaboration in years. Each entry a fragment: vinyl on tables, children running through fields, festival smoke, exclusive tracks titled Mini Lion, Animal Steps, Baaba Loops. On May 8, walking through Vitosha mountain, margg writes: "I stop every now and then to enjoy the view and the smell of trees." The diary fragrance is the olfactive score to a period of real life transitions and musical experimentations.
"When Kaya briefed me on 1000Names universe, I thought about California in the 70’s, as if Neo Hippies where suddenly projected in the 21rst century. I saw their fragrance as a Green Chypre, typical of this period thanks to its patchouli background, but I wanted to add an original and modern twist to it: I accentuated its vegetal green facet thanks to a sharp bitter note of Galbanum and punctuated it with violets, classically used in the feminine perfumery but that here are creating a glitch giving a quirky feel to the all scent."
- PERFUMER, Antoine Lie