AWICHAS
AWICHAS is a music project initiated by Bolivian/Brazilian multi-medium artist and performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti. The project is inspired by Andean ritual and microtonal music. In collaboration with sound artist Jochem van Tol, this has been translated to trance-inducing electronic tonalities. The band’s music is a testament of appreciation to the undermined and neglected voices of the Andes, who do not forget or abandon their sonic heritage. Where subversive memories of the mountain’s overground and repetitive rhythms from Frank Rosaly and Jacob Maskell-Key meet, melt, and converse with the underground echoes of the city’s nightly club music. Accompanied by singer Julia Werner and synths by Dirge Seçil Kurna, and for Le Guess Who?, Jens Bouttery on drums.
AWICHAS means ‘ancestral territories’ in Aymara and Quechua, original languages in the Andes - Bolivia. Where sound is experienced as a continuum of all that lives and plays a central role in cultural, spiritual and ecological activation.
AWICHAS is supported by Space is The Place Productions, Het Muziek Residencies and Molk Factory
Photography by Thomas Meijer
