Following a string of acclaimed collaborations, including Agua Dulce with percussionist Laura Robles and Mapambazuko alongside Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta, Peruvian artist Alejandra C\u00e1rdenas (aka Ale Hop) returns with her most personal work to date yet, A Body Like a Home. Marking her first album under her birth name, the project is a sonic memoir exploring the tangled realms of trauma, recovery, and love through autobiographical soundscapes. A Body Like a Home is the artist at her most exposed. Comprising 13 songs and 15 poems, the album sees her set aside collaborative fusions for solo catharsis, channeling years of turbulence – intergenerational scars left by colonialism, racism, domestic violence, and alcoholism – into a work that oscillates between brutality and tenderness. C\u00e1rdenas states: \u201cI grew up under Alberto Fujimori\u2019s dictatorship, when a veil of hopelessness seemed to settle over everything. This is the backdrop of the album. The songs and poems trace the inevitable loop between private wounds – addiction, domestic violence, fractured intimacy – and Peru\u2019s national scars, carved by colonialism. It\u2019s not a straight story or a resolution. Writing and composing became a ritual of digging for meaning, into what\u2019s buried, disguised, or renamed, until the body itself became a living archive. \u201d At the heart of the album is C\u00e1rdenas\u2019s own voice – part witness, part confessor – reciting over layers of electric guitars, electronic textures, the haunting violin of Mexican musician Gibrana Cervantes, and a collage of field recordings, from rainfall, muffled whispers, broken glass, to archival protest footage from Peru. The result is a work that resonates like a diary written in sound. The first single, “Motherland”, is a searing testimony where C\u00e1rdenas voice cracks under the weight of history and personal loss. Amid a storm of distorted guitars, she traces the cyclical legacies of colonialism, from state massacres branding Indigenous bodies as \u201cterrorists\u201d t…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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