The songs of Temporada de Pesca [Fishing Season], the latest album by Martin Guerra, will probably appear on exquisitely curated playlists of Indie Alterlatino. Martin Guerra, a Peruvian musician based in Madrid, has produced an experimental and hybrid album that combines Latin American musical traditions—the Afro-Peruvian being a crucial one—with […]
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Argentine rock is more than the heavy and progressive rock of the seventies and the smart pop that marked the eighties. In recent years, indie rock bands have given the genre a new air and point to the future. Here is a list of some of the most representative albums […]
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During the second decade of the new millennium, several Peruvian artists embarked on musical projects that articulated Afro-Peruvian culture with the sounds of contemporary electronics. Translocal styles such as grime, dubstep, trap and global bass were freely synthesized by these musicians to weave a rhythmic and sonic curtain. Jaws [quijadas] […]
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Archeological expeditions of the past to question the present and reinvent the future, Peruvian contemporary art goes beyond superficial layers. Selection and text by Peruvian art curator Luisa Fernanda Lindo. 1.CLAUDIA MARTINEZ-GARAY (1983) Martinez-Garay‘s work takes existing images to review and question the past. Her work reads the remains that […]
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Female Mexican filmmakers are on the rise. Miranda Leggett reviews some of these active directors working on multiple genres and telling under-the-radar stories. Each of the women director included has won at least one national or international prize. Esta lista incluye directoras actuales de México que han trabajado en géneros […]
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Take a look into the diversity of new Argentinean artists born after 1975. Here is a selection by Peruvian curator and artist Luisa Fernanda Lindo 1. AMALIA PICA (1978) Pica raises the possibility of art as a means of communication, so she proposes the creation of a language that transcends […]
Read More![In a context of mental health global crisis in our pandemic world, @jaimerodriguezavaleta, a Peruvian journalist living in Madrid, writes and narrates “Informe de los Bosques” [Report of the Forests], a @podiumpodcast in Spanish about “anxiety and other darkness.” Historical, academic, statistical, and poetic references complement an intense struggling personal story. A fierce testimony, while deconstructing itself at every step, seeks to serve as therapy.
Review by @paulalonso1
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![The songs of Temporada de Pesca [Fishing Season], the latest album by Martin Guerra, will probably appear on exquisitely curated playlists of Indie Alterlatino. Martin Guerra, a Peruvian musician based in Madrid, has produced an experimental and hybrid album that combines Latin American musical traditions—the Afro-Peruvian being a crucial one—with modern sounds of jazz and rock. Ceremonial and celebration chants, troubadour and minstrel reminiscences, street voices of itinerant merchants are combined with guitars, bass, and percussions of mestizaje roots. These elements are blended in the voice of the singer—ironic, contemplative, narrative, festive or melancholic.
The title of the album—Temporada de Pesca [Fishing Season]—highlights the nature of this project as a committed experimental creative act. It reflects the period in which the artist—like a fisherman of revelations—extends his net over sounds and words with the hope of catching songs and concepts. This is an album that insists on the idea of art as a constant searching. In addition to this poetic view, the songs also make subtle references to the Latin American socio-political context. In Subasta (maybe the best song of the album), the musician alludes to Alan Garcia—the corrupt Peruvian ex-president who killed himself by gunshot to avoid going to jail—as a metaphor of the tragic contemporary social market. But all of this is done through poetry: Martin Guerra combines popular cultures with surrealist associations. Where some might see influences of Tom Waits or Nick Cave, others would encounter echoes of Ruben Blades or Luis Alberto Spinetta. In other words, Temporada de Pesca belongs to the singer songwriter tradition that seeks a unique vision and style based on a profound knowledge of the musical tradition. Glocal music from a balcony in Lavapiés or Barranco. The album can be listened to in Spotify; the vinyl is a collection item.
Review by @paulalonso1
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