Ale Hop & Laura Robles
Agua Dulce
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From Peru via Berlin - a brilliantly inventive, technoid deployment of the traditional cajón percussion that emerged counter to Peru’s Spanish colonial era - RIYL Debit, Burnt Friedman, Christos Chondropoulos...
Yet another compelling curio spotlighted by Buh Records, ‘Agua Dulce’ is a radical investigation of its makers’ roots customised from a contemporary perspective. Involving Berlin-based Peruvians, Alejandra Cárdenas aka Ale Hop on electric guitar and electronics, and Laura Robles on self-built electric cajón - a wooden fruit box percussion instrument invented by Black slaves when Spanish overlords banned their foot drums in the C.19th - the results jack directly into the outernational imagination with a method and process that sees them looking back to move forward, or perpendicular to cultural and musical timelines.
Like Debit’s work synthesising ancient Mayan wind instruments or Christos Chondropoulos’ guiding notion of Athenian Primitivism, the results of ‘Agua Dulce’ offer absorbing solutions to contemporary music’s burning question of “where to next?”. Drawing on their combined decades of research and fine-honed instrumental intuition, Ale Hop and Laura Robles electrically/electroniclly adapt the clandestine, counter-cultural purpose of the cajón with a physical intensity that mirrors its original use, and likewise contextualises the drum in expressive style that runs against grain of conventions in 2023.
In nine steps they unstitch the cajón from complex, historic Afro-Peruvian patterns and weave it into the modern world flux of rhythmic noise and experimental electronics. Crucially, however, they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, masterfully channelling its purpose to drive dancing bodies in cryptically expressive forms (it was performed live for the Heroines Of Sound festival, accompanied by the dancer/choreographer Liza Alpiźar Aguilar, which was described as “nothing short of amazing” by The Wire) that will send open-minded ‘floors into a spin.
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Boomkat Product Review:
From Peru via Berlin - a brilliantly inventive, technoid deployment of the traditional cajón percussion that emerged counter to Peru’s Spanish colonial era - RIYL Debit, Burnt Friedman, Christos Chondropoulos...
Yet another compelling curio spotlighted by Buh Records, ‘Agua Dulce’ is a radical investigation of its makers’ roots customised from a contemporary perspective. Involving Berlin-based Peruvians, Alejandra Cárdenas aka Ale Hop on electric guitar and electronics, and Laura Robles on self-built electric cajón - a wooden fruit box percussion instrument invented by Black slaves when Spanish overlords banned their foot drums in the C.19th - the results jack directly into the outernational imagination with a method and process that sees them looking back to move forward, or perpendicular to cultural and musical timelines.
Like Debit’s work synthesising ancient Mayan wind instruments or Christos Chondropoulos’ guiding notion of Athenian Primitivism, the results of ‘Agua Dulce’ offer absorbing solutions to contemporary music’s burning question of “where to next?”. Drawing on their combined decades of research and fine-honed instrumental intuition, Ale Hop and Laura Robles electrically/electroniclly adapt the clandestine, counter-cultural purpose of the cajón with a physical intensity that mirrors its original use, and likewise contextualises the drum in expressive style that runs against grain of conventions in 2023.
In nine steps they unstitch the cajón from complex, historic Afro-Peruvian patterns and weave it into the modern world flux of rhythmic noise and experimental electronics. Crucially, however, they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, masterfully channelling its purpose to drive dancing bodies in cryptically expressive forms (it was performed live for the Heroines Of Sound festival, accompanied by the dancer/choreographer Liza Alpiźar Aguilar, which was described as “nothing short of amazing” by The Wire) that will send open-minded ‘floors into a spin.
Boomkat Product Review:
From Peru via Berlin - a brilliantly inventive, technoid deployment of the traditional cajón percussion that emerged counter to Peru’s Spanish colonial era - RIYL Debit, Burnt Friedman, Christos Chondropoulos...
Yet another compelling curio spotlighted by Buh Records, ‘Agua Dulce’ is a radical investigation of its makers’ roots customised from a contemporary perspective. Involving Berlin-based Peruvians, Alejandra Cárdenas aka Ale Hop on electric guitar and electronics, and Laura Robles on self-built electric cajón - a wooden fruit box percussion instrument invented by Black slaves when Spanish overlords banned their foot drums in the C.19th - the results jack directly into the outernational imagination with a method and process that sees them looking back to move forward, or perpendicular to cultural and musical timelines.
Like Debit’s work synthesising ancient Mayan wind instruments or Christos Chondropoulos’ guiding notion of Athenian Primitivism, the results of ‘Agua Dulce’ offer absorbing solutions to contemporary music’s burning question of “where to next?”. Drawing on their combined decades of research and fine-honed instrumental intuition, Ale Hop and Laura Robles electrically/electroniclly adapt the clandestine, counter-cultural purpose of the cajón with a physical intensity that mirrors its original use, and likewise contextualises the drum in expressive style that runs against grain of conventions in 2023.
In nine steps they unstitch the cajón from complex, historic Afro-Peruvian patterns and weave it into the modern world flux of rhythmic noise and experimental electronics. Crucially, however, they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, masterfully channelling its purpose to drive dancing bodies in cryptically expressive forms (it was performed live for the Heroines Of Sound festival, accompanied by the dancer/choreographer Liza Alpiźar Aguilar, which was described as “nothing short of amazing” by The Wire) that will send open-minded ‘floors into a spin.
Boomkat Product Review:
From Peru via Berlin - a brilliantly inventive, technoid deployment of the traditional cajón percussion that emerged counter to Peru’s Spanish colonial era - RIYL Debit, Burnt Friedman, Christos Chondropoulos...
Yet another compelling curio spotlighted by Buh Records, ‘Agua Dulce’ is a radical investigation of its makers’ roots customised from a contemporary perspective. Involving Berlin-based Peruvians, Alejandra Cárdenas aka Ale Hop on electric guitar and electronics, and Laura Robles on self-built electric cajón - a wooden fruit box percussion instrument invented by Black slaves when Spanish overlords banned their foot drums in the C.19th - the results jack directly into the outernational imagination with a method and process that sees them looking back to move forward, or perpendicular to cultural and musical timelines.
Like Debit’s work synthesising ancient Mayan wind instruments or Christos Chondropoulos’ guiding notion of Athenian Primitivism, the results of ‘Agua Dulce’ offer absorbing solutions to contemporary music’s burning question of “where to next?”. Drawing on their combined decades of research and fine-honed instrumental intuition, Ale Hop and Laura Robles electrically/electroniclly adapt the clandestine, counter-cultural purpose of the cajón with a physical intensity that mirrors its original use, and likewise contextualises the drum in expressive style that runs against grain of conventions in 2023.
In nine steps they unstitch the cajón from complex, historic Afro-Peruvian patterns and weave it into the modern world flux of rhythmic noise and experimental electronics. Crucially, however, they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, masterfully channelling its purpose to drive dancing bodies in cryptically expressive forms (it was performed live for the Heroines Of Sound festival, accompanied by the dancer/choreographer Liza Alpiźar Aguilar, which was described as “nothing short of amazing” by The Wire) that will send open-minded ‘floors into a spin.
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Boomkat Product Review:
From Peru via Berlin - a brilliantly inventive, technoid deployment of the traditional cajón percussion that emerged counter to Peru’s Spanish colonial era - RIYL Debit, Burnt Friedman, Christos Chondropoulos...
Yet another compelling curio spotlighted by Buh Records, ‘Agua Dulce’ is a radical investigation of its makers’ roots customised from a contemporary perspective. Involving Berlin-based Peruvians, Alejandra Cárdenas aka Ale Hop on electric guitar and electronics, and Laura Robles on self-built electric cajón - a wooden fruit box percussion instrument invented by Black slaves when Spanish overlords banned their foot drums in the C.19th - the results jack directly into the outernational imagination with a method and process that sees them looking back to move forward, or perpendicular to cultural and musical timelines.
Like Debit’s work synthesising ancient Mayan wind instruments or Christos Chondropoulos’ guiding notion of Athenian Primitivism, the results of ‘Agua Dulce’ offer absorbing solutions to contemporary music’s burning question of “where to next?”. Drawing on their combined decades of research and fine-honed instrumental intuition, Ale Hop and Laura Robles electrically/electroniclly adapt the clandestine, counter-cultural purpose of the cajón with a physical intensity that mirrors its original use, and likewise contextualises the drum in expressive style that runs against grain of conventions in 2023.
In nine steps they unstitch the cajón from complex, historic Afro-Peruvian patterns and weave it into the modern world flux of rhythmic noise and experimental electronics. Crucially, however, they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, masterfully channelling its purpose to drive dancing bodies in cryptically expressive forms (it was performed live for the Heroines Of Sound festival, accompanied by the dancer/choreographer Liza Alpiźar Aguilar, which was described as “nothing short of amazing” by The Wire) that will send open-minded ‘floors into a spin.
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