Chak Chak Chak Chak

Description

Colombian avant-garde singer-songwriter Julian Mayorga returns with his ninth album, a shattering, absurdist slab of post-cumbia psychedelia. *Chak Chak Chak Chak* is a feverish mash-up of angular electric guitars, warped rhythms, found percussion, and rapid-fire incantations, with influences such as Tom Zé, Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart. Inspired by the sounds of unconventional musical instruments - frying pans, mortar and pestle, knives, and plates – his Glitterbeat debut (his ninth overall) bursts with an uncanny energy and satirical spirit. He injects the album with vocal performances marked by rapid-fire incantations, animalistic screams and howls and gesticulating psychobabble, plus a rhythmic scattering of beats generated by electronic circuitry, traditional percussion instruments (tambora and guacharaca) and repurposed objects (giant oil drums and other scrap metal junk). The album’s off-kilter allegories and anti-capitalist declarations ooze tropical mischief, dystopian noise, and a love of folkloric bestiaries.