Fletcher Reed is the nom de plume of prolific music producer and globetrotter who started learning various instruments and playing in different bands at an early age. A few years back, he and a friend took off for Zimbabwe, their first destination on what would become a mostly non-stop journey across several continents for two years. The trip deeply influenced Fletcher's perception of the world and its people and cultures, injecting his music with a specific sense of place and geographic spirit to represent his wanderlust instincts to get up and go. Fletcher Reed's new album Unity is an instrumental version of his recent collaborative vocal album Community. Stripping away the vocalists and outside collaborators, the result is a downtempo electronic project, never staying contained within one genre (trip-hop, hip-hop, soul, R&B) yet always keeping a rhythm and a groove. Community and Unity are both out now.