"The new album from Joshua Chuquimia Crampton takes its name from the Andean ceremony Anata, which gives thanks for the harvest before the rainy season. Made up of seven dense and distorted instrumentals, the record is the California-based Aymara musician's attempt at capturing the energy of ceremonial music not some rosy, polished version, but how it might sound recorded on a phone, clipping and all."
"His music, often self-released and proudly unmastered, is characterised by its murky textures and amp-blasting volume. He took this rudimentary approach to the max with last year's collaborative project Los Thuthanaka, alongside his sibling Chuquimamani-Condori, which was splattered with cartoonish vocal samples, whistles and syncopated rhythms. Here he returns to his solo formula, with just guitar, bass and a few Andean instruments. You'd call it stripped-back if it wasn't so noisy."
Anata is a seven-track instrumental record by California-based Aymara musician Joshua Chuquimia Crampton that seeks to capture the raw energy of Andean ceremonial music as if recorded on a phone. The production is intentionally unmastered and loud, favouring murky textures, feedback and amp-blasting volume alongside guitar, bass and a few traditional Andean instruments. The opening track crashes into feedback and jagged riffs, while looping, hypnotic melodies and occasional grooves evoke Andean folk jauntiness. Pockets of warmth and soaring rhythm guitar appear amid noise, and moments of reversed guitar and bombo drum amplify a wistful, meditative quality to repeated listens.
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