“Summer of Love” Mixtape, Driptape
Releasing One Song At a Time on all the platforms, 2025-??
SUMMER OF LOVE is me focusing on songwriting, singing and composition, and less on tinkering with production. I want to write with the same palette of chords, melodies, lyrics and sounds that I always like, and the same global influences.
Songs are released as they are finished, dripping slowly. I’ve now moved to Dubai and am figuring out a new flow for production, including collaborating with other producers.
1. “Laylow”
Written and Sung by Hitashya aka Kai (Kari) Altmann in Dubai & Dahab (Egypt)
Co-Produced and Co-Written by Haitame Kasmein in Paris
Released June 2025
Spotify | Apple | Tidal | Anghami | Youtube
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“Endless” EP
2020, Some songs on platforms
ENDLESS is an EP worked on throughout 2015-2020 as I traveled the world. Starting in New York before I left for full time nomad life and winding up in 2020 Covid Lockdown Mumbai.
Songs were written and created in New York, Bangkok, Koh Samui, Chiang Mai, HCMC, Mumbai, Goa, Delhi, Dubai and others.
I started with the ideas of riffs—both musical and verbal—and building them up.
Endless riffs. Endless worlds. Endless collapse. Mantras on loop.
This EP is me getting my chops with composing in Ableton and figuring out my sound, transitioning from dj’ing and sample-based sets into compositions and singing. Somewhere between an art, poetry and music project.
Each track has its own version of the album cover.
For “Jua Kali” and “Tear Up La Tierra” I also made very basic music videos with my phone during CoVid, shooting footage mostly in Goa. I kept things very raw.
01- “Jua Kali (Intro)”
Youtube
Written, Composed, Produced and Sung by Hitashya, Kai (Kari) Altmann.
Includes a melodic riff from Slash’s solo in “November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses, through a Thai bootleg filter. Inspired by travel and live music in Thailand and India. And that one riff getting stuck in my head. Music video shot in Goa.
02-”Bridge (Interlude)”
Written and Composed by Hitashya
03-”Endless”
Written, Composed and Sung by Hitashya
Co-Written and Co-Produced by Don Alfonso
04-”Tear Up La Tierra”
Spotify | Apple | Amazon | Youtube
Written, Composed, Produced and Sung by Hitashya, Kai (Kari) Altmann.
Inspired by travel in Koh Samui and Goa, nomad life and hermetic lockdown life in Mumbai during CoVid. Gremlin Gaia Off-Grid mode. Lava and fire flows.
My friend Lae Carbon-Wilson aka M.O.T.H. also made a collab version of this one in 2024
05-”Time to Get Real (Outro)”
Written, Composed and Sung by Hitashya, Kai (Kari) Altmann.
Inspired by Azan/Adhan and early travels throughout India and UAE.
Secret Song
Written, Composed and Sung by Hitashya, Kai (Kari) Altmann
