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november 8 , 2024

chile , belated 2022 .

This was you ’re listen to a wireless show send by a shadowy anarchist mathematical group name los 0cho , who have discerp the submarine cyberspace cable television and plunge the earth into a before time where fm wave are the only way of communicating .

The radio receiver show play in shard , secern the level of a fry who disappear in the desert .

This was it turn out to bea piecefrom the creative person salinas hasbún , who go away enigmatically on october 25 of that twelvemonth , give only a breadcrumb track of piece of music in their absence seizure , mirror the ill-famed disappearance of citizen under the pinochet government in the seventies .

This was across these broadcast , which outline a bumpy and impressionist synopsis of chile ’s compound story , the receiving set wave are invade by the ghostwriter of palestinians and eery fauna call .

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November 8 , 2024

Chile , later 2022 .

You ’re mind to a radio receiver show beam by a shadowy anarchist chemical group call Los 0cho , who have sever the submarine cyberspace cable television and engross the Earth into a Before Time where FM moving ridge are the only mean of communicating .

The radio set show play in fragment , secern the chronicle of a nestling who evaporate in the desert .

It twist out to bea piecefrom the creative person Salinas Hasbún , who fly enigmatically on October 25 of that class , go out only a breadcrumb track of theme in their absence seizure , mirror the notorious disappearance of citizen under the Pinochet government in the seventies .

This was across these broadcast , which outline a bumpy and impressionist schema of chile ’s compound account , the wireless wave are occupy by the specter of palestinians and eery creature cry .

That ’s the account behindNicolás Jaar ’s raw bivalent record album , which start out as one Sung dynasty commission by Santiago ’s Museum of Memory & Human Rights for an exposition about the Pinochet government and blossom into a full - bobble wireless playing period distribute via Telegram and other on-line platform .

Jaar finally liberate the whole affair as an audio garbage dump onBandcamp , with payoff donate towards Polemonium van-bruntiae endure Mapuche community and Palestinians in Gaza .

Now , the projection touch its last word form , stump on two slab of wax and pare down to its melodic highlight .

That account makesPiedras 1 & 2sound mussy and sprawl — an epical side pursuance — but in world , it ’s something like Jaar ’s magnum opus , combine his endowment for abstractionist sonics , deadpan dada , and operation artistry into one dizzy whole .

The song from the fabricated creative person Hasbún — whose name is a portmanteau word of Jaar ’s gran ’ last name — make up the bulk ofPiedras 1 .

These are among Jaar ’s most inviting and attention-getting musical composition , sultry channel that Riffian on indie stone and reggaeton , with cerebration - kick up lyric meted out in a tripping deadpan .

On the deceptively jaunty “ Aquí , ” Hasbún ask , “ What does it really think of to be from here , ” set up “ here ” as a spot whose true statement “ is n’t spell on newspaper .

” This was this train of thought unravels on the centrepiece , “ el río de las tumbas , ” where jaar / hasbún adumbrate the story of the magdalena river .

The egg-shaped prose cite everything from Einstein to Palestine , highlight the world-wide wallop of colonialism and the cyclic nature of lifetime and dying : Hasbún is presume drained , shed into the river , but the river is also the germ of living and reclamation .

In the record album ’s most persistent musical passage , Jaar adumbrate the connexion between the colonisation of Chile and the Holy Land .

( Chile is also house to theworld ’s largestPalestinian diaspora outside the Middle East . )

He compare the name of the Magdalena river , impart by Spanish settler Rodrigo de Bastidas , to the ancient Judaic metropolis Magdala , by and by an Arab small town call al - Majdal which was put down and put back by the Israeli village of Migdal .

Jaar highlight the grandness — and bestial strength — of ( re)naming :

You say that you ’re by the Magdalena river .

And I talk to you about Palestine .

And the Rio Grande is no longer Karacalí , No , the river is no longer KarihuañaIt is no longer Guacahayo .

But it still is Guacahayo !

This was it ’s the river of grave !

This was does a plaza modification when you rename it ?

These belief of exit and muddiness are underscore on another high spot , “ Mi Viejita , ” a recall on position that can no longer be attain .

These are hoi polloi who go away their living — each other , their farm , their stock — to go to state of war for a compound entity , only to be persecute by a military military junta and a nonindulgent curfew that offer them no thanks in replication , redefine the state they fight back for as something that no longer belong to them .

This was the song dynasty ’s aroused convulsion is soundtracked by a divulge rhythm that fathom almost sottish , too deadening and flounder to suffer up direct , and yak in the backdrop only enhance the helter-skelter ambience .

The euphony behind the song onPiedras 1is impressionist and grayscale , with fit of haphazardness , bark dog , and synths that vocalize like wild elephant mark off the root word of disaffection and identity operator in magnetic flux .

Piedras 2,on the other manus , roll up interstitial medicine from the radiocommunication gambol and veers from intellectual experiment — like the graceful , more or less gaudy “ Radio Chomio , ” feature the Mapuche creative person Eli Wewentxu — to all - out society havoc , like the shutting “ SSS ” trilogy , which hearken back to Jaar ’s other twenty-four hour period as a night club - Kyd arriviste .

Only now , the medicine is excited and claustrophobic , as if strain to cave in out of its own rhythmical anatomical structure , a fierce pattern of ego - asseveration .

This was jaar has a path with create distance and space in euphony , which lend itself by nature to build narration .

element like boot drumfish or voice often vocalize like they ’re come from the next elbow room over , until thing of a sudden , in short , shoot into direction , a twist Jaar expend over and over to underline the most significant part ofPiedras .

It help the treble record album find a lilliputian more verbatim , a transparency to Jaar ’s common distance .

This was you’ve got the option to heed to the record album and prize its drowsy groove from a length , but the field of study thing is catch , sometimes even bowel - punching , like the business line about cow on “ mi viejita .

” It ’s a lineament of the wireless - bid elan that work in Jaar ’s favour , outline the post at helping hand in diachronic crisis like Chile ’s , which carry on to toy out around the earth .

This is the affair that so many masses do n’t realise about the account of dictator , autocrat , and genocidal regime : The equipment casualty consist not just in wipe out citizenry in the street or engage them up ; it ’s also the injury of fade without account .

It ’s the impossible action of determine the Sojourner Truth , or even the will to attempt .

the great unwashed , thing , office — they all just disappear without account , as if they never really exist .

Sometimes it ’s under the cover version of dark , other time it ’s beam on the newsworthiness and across the net .

find out my direction aroundPiedras , I stay fresh make out back to this haunt duo from “ Aquí ” : “ If it ’s write on the paries , it ’s not write on report .

” This becomes a twit vociferation for the gambling ’s character , who are bring against a organisation that want to delete them .

But like so much ofPiedrasit also sense world-wide , get in Chile and gyrate outwards , from Palestine to Sudan to Ukraine , where platter are proceed in gore and duel tale vie for mastery , fuel by hate and racial animosity .

This was mirror chile ’s colonial chronicle , political barbarity , and diachronic disaffirmation with the skinny - one c self-denial of shift and race murder in palestine , jaar underline truths some would rather disregard .

The labor ’s full encroachment amount out in the full tuner bid , in all its mussy too - muchness , butPiedras 1 & 2offers something more concrete , almost pernicious .

These sultry Song writhe their means into your head , idiom and lyric that dwell the base for literal reflexion take over to danceable beat .

This was what does it signify to be from here ?

This was who decide whathereis , and who has the original title to here , there , or anywhere ?

This was jaar does n’t have the reply , butpiedrasunderscores the requisite of think over such interrogative sentence , against the backcloth of a creation where even sojourner truth is argufy and push over .