{"product_id":"ale-hop-why-is-it-they-say-a-city-like-any-city","title":"Ale Hop - Why Is It They Say A City Like Any City?","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: KR087\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5050580769762\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 04 Feb 2022\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01: The Mountain That Eats Men\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e02: Mayu Islapi\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e03: Latitud 0\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e04: They Thought of Themselves\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e05: Chiapas Y Phinaya\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e06: Once Upon a Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new album by the Peruvian-born \/ Berlin-based experimental artist Ale Hop was\u003cbr\u003econceived in a context of immobility and provides six sonic vignettes that wonder about\u003cbr\u003elocation, circularity, rootedness and experience. In collaboration with Ana Quiroga,\u003cbr\u003eConcepcion Huerta, Daniela Huerta, Elsa M'balla, Felicity Magan, Fil Uno, Ignacio Briceño,\u003cbr\u003eKMRU, Manongo Mujica, Moises Horta, Nicole L'huillier, Raul Jardín, Sukitoa Onamau,\u003cbr\u003eTomas Tello.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing her explorations on music's inherent fixation to geographic space and time, be it through\u003cbr\u003ethe longing of home (\"Apophenia\" 2019) or scientific magnification of invisible worlds (\"The Life of\u003cbr\u003eInsects\" 2020), Berlin-based Peruvian-born experimental composer Ale Hop's fourth album, \"Why\u003cbr\u003eIs It They Say a City Like Any City?\", was conceived in a context of immobility. During the lockdown\u003cbr\u003emonths, she started a process of remote collaboration, by sending messages, posted from various\u003cbr\u003ecities along a South American trip, to thirteen musicians from around the world. She journaled her\u003cbr\u003eimpressions upon these places to an intimate fictional character while reflecting on matters of time,\u003cbr\u003esound, space, cosmology and colonial memory. The thirteen musicians dialogued with this voice by\u003cbr\u003etaking upon the challenge of responding to the messages with sound collaborations.\u003cbr\u003eField recordings, mouth drumming, drone cellos, electronic loops, arrhythmic rhythms and voices\u003cbr\u003ecame back from this experiment. Ale assembled them, by layering, twisting and turning, into sonic\u003cbr\u003evignettes that wonder about location, circularity, rootedness and experience, making it the first time\u003cbr\u003eshe's set her guitar aside. Expect no answers to the album's title question, but an innermost\u003cbr\u003epsychedelic rumination.\u003cbr\u003e\"Despite the technological resources that appear to dilute distances, the simulation of closeness\u003cbr\u003emirrored on the digital space is an emptied body, a state of precarity, a flat surface; unable to\u003cbr\u003ewithhold an experience of exchange,\" Ale states. \"So, I began this project by asking myself, how\u003cbr\u003ecan we escape from the reduced experience of the virtual? The idea behind this experiment was\u003cbr\u003ethat my messages and the places they describe could drive the composition, be a catalyzer, a\u003cbr\u003escore. Thus, to use geography as a tool to remember and imagine, to allow new soundscapes to\u003cbr\u003eemerge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Memory, diffuse and divergent, sometimes reaches out to the future in its search for form, taking\u003cbr\u003eshape from the reflections and echoes that come back … like throwing a rock in a pond and having\u003cbr\u003ea rock thrown back at you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karlrecords","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41313997783196,"sku":"KR087","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_a56e99d1-84b4-4a70-b71b-4efe7071952c.jpg?v=1640774204","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/ale-hop-why-is-it-they-say-a-city-like-any-city","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}