📸 Photo by Brendon Burton
With Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, Quadeca doesn’t just raise the bar—he sets it adrift into uncharted waters. The rapper, producer, and cinematic visionary delivers a concept album so sprawling and vividly imagined, it demands full immersion. Across 14 shape-shifting tracks, Quadeca sails through orchestral rap, ambient folk, gospel, noise rock, and neo-classical balladry—all while constructing a post-apocalyptic mythology that feels heartbreakingly human.
The album opens like a slow-burning dream and gradually erupts into a feverish odyssey. “GODSTAINED” brings bossa nova percussion and orchestral chaos crashing into high-energy rap verses, while “MONDAY” unfurls like a memory slipping away at sea—classical piano and winds building toward emotional wreckage. Then comes “FORGONE,” a gospel-rooted eight-minute epic that channels both spiritual reckoning and cosmic transcendence. Each track shape-shifts and expands, held together not by genre but by vision.
This is a sailor’s story, sure—but it’s also Quadeca’s. The accompanying feature-length film, premiered at sold-out screenings in NYC and LA, weaves his music into a visual mythology of isolation, obsession, and mythic beauty. Shot on the volcanic island of Camiguin in the Philippines, the film is poetic, surreal, and stunning—mirroring the way the album toes the line between creation and collapse, self and story.
Guests like Danny Brown and Maruja are more than features—they’re elements of the storm. But make no mistake: this is Quadeca’s universe. From songwriting to production, direction to performance, he constructs a fully realized world where love, loss, memory, and madness spiral like sails caught in crosswinds.
By the time the final track fades into a world-ending tsunami, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper has become more than an album. It’s a modern myth, an opera, a self-contained odyssey from an artist who refuses to stay in one genre—or on dry land.
Quadeca – Vanisher, Horizon Scraper Tour Dates
North America
9/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/1 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/2 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
10/5 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
10/7 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/8 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
10/9 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
10/11 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/12 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
10/14 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10/15 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
10/16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
10/18 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
10/21 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
10/22 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
10/23 – Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn
10/24 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Music Hall
10/26 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
10/27 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
11/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
Europe & UK
12/7 – Berlin, Germany @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
12/9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
12/11 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton
12/13 – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
12/15 – Dublin, Ireland @ The Academy