Gotopo's Indigenous and Ancestral Futurism
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English - May 11, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Music Music Interviews wnyc new york public radio npr soundcheck music art technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gotopo is a Venezuelan singer and musician currently based in Berlin. Her music explores her own Afro-Indigenous roots through a mix of ancient folkloric sounds and modern electronic dance music. She is a "digger", and has thrown herself into researching source material, as in an Afro-Venezuelan hymn intended for slaves to give a spiritual farewell to their relatives who died at the hands of the enslaver which informed her song, "Malembe". Her debut release, called Sacudete, comes out on May 19, and Gotopo performs her indigenous and ancestral futurism, in-studio.
Set list: "Piña Pa La Niña", "Cucu", "Sacudete"
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