Silver Spring, MD
Wassako Park Productions, LLC helps creative artists thrive.
Music by communities,
for communities.
Our Mission
Dunia Best and Aram Sinnreich, two musical partners with a decades-long history of collaboration, founded Wassako Park to help creative musicians produce, perform, and distribute their music within their local communities, and to connect with fellow artists.
Our Philosophy
We believe that music is for everyone, and from everyone. Music exists to bring people together, first and foremost. We aim to tear down barriers that create artificial divisions between us. We do this by giving local musicians the opportunity to make music for and with one another.
Out of Our Cells
In 2023-24, with funding from the Humanities Truck Foundation, Sinnreich and Best co-produced Out of Our Cells, a compilation of songs written by composers incarcerated at the DC Jail and interpreted by local recording artists. The project was covered in the Washington Post.
Out of Our Shells
In 2022, with funding from the Humanities Truck Foundation, Sinnreich and Best co-produced Out of Our Shells, a free compilation of 14 songs by a diverse range of Washington, DC-area artists whose careers had been impacted by COVID-19. The project was covered by the Washington Post and NPR, among others.
Partner Spotlight: Neil W. Perry
Neil W. Perry is a veteran of New York’s legendary Hit Factory recording studio, where he engineered Grammy-winning albums by artists like Prince, David Bowie, Mariah Carey, and Smashing Pumpkins. He has brought his great ears and kind heart to mixing and mastering Out of Our Shells and Out of Our Cells.
Partner Spotlight: Rob Coltun
Rob Coltun is a Washington, DC-based musician and co-owner of the world music venue Bossa Bar and Bistro in Adams Morgan. He has contributed to both Out of Our Shells and Out of Our Cells, and is collaborating with Sinnreich and Best on forthcoming work featuring Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate.