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01. Ale Hop - Augury
02. Ale Hop - Side Effects
03. Ale Hop - El Beso
04. Ale Hop - Lima
05. Ale Hop - Onomatopoeia
06. Ale Hop - Puñales
07. Ale Hop - Apophenia (Cielo Azul)
08. Ale Hop - Marches
ARTIST
TITLE
Apophenia
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BR 127LP BR 127LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/6/2019

Apophenia by Ale Hop, suggests possible and reimagined South American geographies. Along with atomized field recordings and sound samples she recollected from video archives from her homeland, Peru, the composer interweaves unknown territories by mimicking mountains and oceans, but also grey skies and violent cities, with droning and shrieking textures of electric guitars mixed with spoken chatters and sizzles. The LP is accompanied by two black-and-white images from the Peruvian photographer Gihan Tubbeh that withhold the same poetic nature of the music through visual rhymes expressed on fragments of landscapes.

Ale Hop is a Berlin-based artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentalist from Peru. She composes electronic music, by blending strains of noise, pop, avant-garde, ambient, and a complex repertoire of extended techniques for electric guitar and real time sampling devices that she uses as her sound vocabulary to craft a performance of astonishing physical intensity, saturated of layers of distortion and stunning atmospheres. Additionally, in her current A/V performance, Ale Hop assembles soundscapes that are related to the contradictory memories she keeps from Peru, from the violence and turbulence that she grew up, in uncertain times in Lima, through contemplative territories.