Saturday 29 June 2024, 7.30pm
Chuquimamani-Condori is a multidisciplinary artist & musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people.
Chuquimamani-Condori blends traditional drum & ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, full of harsh, colorful synths & noise, said to "recreate the cacophony of the first aurora, the call of chuqi chinchay", described by listeners as "astonishing in its unabashed emotional vulnerability & raw, chaotic, even violent noise overload", "like stargazing, making a bonfire, profoundly uplifting and human", & "spiritual, boundary liquefying" music.
New album 'DJ E' was released in November 2023.
Previous recent works include Rayo Mix (2022), Across the Policed World: A Transnocturnal Huayño (2022), and Amaru's Tongue: Daughter (2021), a collaborative work with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They also continue to do work with AIM SoCal, the Southern California chapter of the American Indian Movement (founded in 1968).
Also on the bill, musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim, whose Potential album on our own in-house Otoroku label was #14 on The WIRE's best release of last year, and whose new album Tears of Rage is out now on Rope Editions.
Sunik Kim is a musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Currently based in Los Angeles, Sunik's music is often described as "a frenzied electronic orchestra that sits somewhere in between free jazz, noise, and Korean shamanic music." They are also a regular contributor to experimental music publication Tone Glow, and have had writing featured in Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Soap Ear and elsewhere.
https://sunikkim.bandcamp.com/
