ámóré (ábró híló - té ódíó) / chínító dé ámól (Feat. Paloma Chen) by PUTOCHINOMARICÓN
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The title of this album comes from Afong Moy, the first known female Chinese immigrant to arrive to the United States in 1834. Taken by the Carne brothers from Guangzhou, she was exhibited around the country as “The Chinese Lady”. It is a reflection on stereotypes and identities, and that subtitle (which means, “She bit the hand that feeds her”) shows us the path the artist can follow to become totally free, shaking off their chains and embracing their complexities and multiplicities.
But there is more here than sociological concepts. Because in a world where TikTok tries to convince us that we don’t need songs longer than 30 seconds, and a mixtape is an exercise in nostalgia dressed up as modernity, PUTOCHINOMARICÓN is giving us songs that are three at the same time, united, overlapping, interconnected. This approach makes the exercise of listening to music, composing it, developing it, acquire new dimensions. These are songs to listen to a thousand times, to analyze to the point of exasperation. To dance to and sing along with, to think about, to love, to hate, but never forget.
Using resources and elements like the voice of a Spanish-speaking Chinese text-to-speech generator, Chinese instruments that are glitched beyond recognition, extreme frequency processing. PUTOCHINOMARICÓN has developed a musical language that opens up new artistic spaces. They connect with the conceptualism of pop art like no one else had ever done before, with existentialism, discrimination, and they do this using their principles of sound, not exclusively verbal. Once again, something unprecedented, an impact it will take us decades to understand, an exercise that Chenta is carrying out again and again every few weeks.
- Genre
- Electronic