With a mix called ‘Bethlehem’, Chuquimamani-Condori marks a cacophonous and cathartic close to the year.
E Crampton Chuquimia is one of the most silently era-defining artists of their generation. Ever giventhat their early music as E+E and the release of their modern-day traditional launching, American Drift, they have continued to checkout and brighten the complexities of their particular sound, each job unveiling brand-new elements of their ever-evolving technique to structure, deconstruction and sonic engraving. Shapeshifting inbetween makingup, making blends and modifies as Ocelote DJ and DJ K’oa, as well as teamingup with their sibling, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, as Los Thuthanaka, the artist selects apart the sounds and signifiers of modern club noise style, shredded guitar music and pop ballads, all while winding their method back through the tradition of the conventional Andean music played by their forefathers of the Pakajaqi country of Aymara individuals.
Their music and art made as Chuquimamani-Condori marks a merging point for the styles and concepts that circulation through all of this work. In setup works for the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and MoMa PS1 the artist looks back through the lives of their grandma, Flora Tancara Quiñonez Chuquimia, and their excellent great-grandparents, anti-colonial activists and professionals Francisco Tancara and Rosa Quiñones, checkingout their ancestral history while liningup native Aymara cosmologies with queer and abolitionist idea. This verysame vision, wrought from intergenerational understanding and cultural exchange, set to the boundless rhythm of huayño, a category of Andean music and dance, swirls into focus on Chuquimamani-Condori’s sensational brand-new record, DJ E, one of the most mind-bending, wonderful albums we’ve heard all year.
“This is the noise of our water events,” discusses Chuquimamani-Condori, “the 40 bands playing their tunes at once to recreate the cacophony of the veryfirst aurora and the call of the earlymorning star Venus.” For their Fact mix, which they haveactually entitled ‘Bethlehem’, they choice up where they leave off on DJ E, the album’s last track ‘Until I Find You Again’ threatening to swallow Tracy Chapman’s ‘Smoke & Ashes’ whole. What follows is a visceral growth of the noise world from which the album resonates, studded with distortion, rough with feeling and played with real spirit, a transmission for troubled times and for a cathartic close to the year. “If you ever cared for me, if I ever liked you, if I ever did you incorrect, if you ever broke my heart, then fuck with me now.”
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Tracklist:
Chuquimamani-Condori x Tracy Chapman – ‘Until I Find You Again’ x ‘Smoke & Ashes’
Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton – ‘Q’iwanakax/Q’iws