Cumbia, progressive rock, and electronic music reveal a vivid, hallucinatory landscape: a place where the dead rise, we dance with devils, and dream of animals.
About this playlist
A playlist that situates us among the slopes of the Antisana, Chalupas, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi volcanoes. From this Andean region emerges Chamanes electricos en la fiesta del sol, a book by Mónica Ojeda that guides us through geological voices: the cracking of mountains, earthquakes, rains, and stones, intertwined with the neighing of horses and the ghostly echoes of musical instruments made from bones, leather, or condor wings. “The ear is the organ of fear.” From that premise, music becomes a central force, drawing us closer to pain, absence, and violence—but also to friendship and love, with relationships that reach beyond the human
This playlist—where cumbia, progressive rock, and electronic music coexist—reveals a vivid, hallucinatory landscape: a place where the dead rise, we dance with devils, dream of animals, luminous horses, and the songs of frogs.
Thank you, Mónica, for sharing. I also hope that before the earth opens and swallows us whole, we find tenderness
