Dirty Disco 513: A Post-Vacation Musical Odyssey.
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Dive into the pulsating heart of Chile’s music scene with Cuerpo Docente, the freshest live improvisation trio to emerge from Santiago’s vibrant rhythms. Join us as we groove through their roots, decode Santiago’s sonic landscape, and get the first scoop on their electrifying new EP ‘Esferas’, now resonating from the decks of San Francisco’s Dream Chimney. 🔊🎶
Santiago is a city built between mountain ranges, so the air quality is awful.
For us, having the Andes right in our face all the time is a foundational emotional experience. They protect and guide us. We kinda get uneasy and lost in flat cities.
We got excited and hopeful for a split second during the 2019 uprising and subsequent (failed) constitutional assembly and now there’s an ultra-right-wing backlash in the horizon. The vibes are very mid, we all feel a little hopeless.
There’s a lot of good DJs and producers/bands. Santiago’s general vibe is dark and emo — people here generally like industrial sounds, noisy techno, an especially explicit flavor of reggaeton and emotional indie bands.
One distinctive thing about the Santiago scene is the lack of infrastructure in terms of clubs, and venues in general. That forces most shows/parties to be a little or very illegal and nomadic.
Currently there are big techno parties/raves, a smaller house music scene, some “Club Latino” parties. Bands took a hit with the years as it is not very profitable or cool to play instruments, and because a lot of venues have gone under in the past 7 years or so. The pandemic was a big blow as well.
Felipe and Lorena think it’s not especially big, having lived here all their lives, but Vicente strongly disagrees, having lived as a musician in New York for 11 years (where it sucks).
Baila Como Quieras is a very cool social/dance project. In terms of parties there’s Club Quimera in Valparaíso, Equinoccio, Aglomeracion, Martirio, Club Algoritmo, Bim Bam Bum, Placido Domingo, Entusiasmo and Sello Medio Oriente. Of course, there’s a lot of overlap between these projects and our friendships.
We guess maybe it’s not so small, but maybe around 1000 people go to these events.
Felipe plays bass and sings, Lorena plays keyboards, and Vicente plays drums. We also had Simón Cáceres play percussion on the record as a guest artist.
Felipe started out playing improvised music and studying composition at university, and Lorena studied classical & jazz piano. Both of them gradually got into making/playing dance music, and now are DJs and producers. They had another band together called Los Barbara Blade and Vicente was a fan. Vicente is a jazz drummer and studied composition in New York. He mostly makes unusual music with unusual instruments, and this is his most normal project.
We first started playing in 2018 in one of Vicente’s trips to Santiago, where we played a fully improvised set at a party we organized. We all like improvisation and house/disco/dub/jazz music so we naturally came together to play this kind of thing.
We all have different relationships with jazz music and have all played it at one point or another. Vicente is the most active in the jazz scene and even won a prize for it. For Lorena it is a way of thinking and learning music which can be translated to other styles.
From the very beginning.
We just play trio, drums keys bass/vox.
Making sure we know the songs. Improvising a lot
Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, AtomTM, Suzanne Ciani, Non-Local Research
Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Azymuth, Theo Parrish, Dub Syndicate, King Tubby, Don Cherry
This is our first release, and we recorded it in 2021.
Lorena published an EP with Not Not Fun records and she showed Esferas to Britt, the owner of the label, who recommended she reach out to Dream Chimney. We liked their music and thought it was a good match.
The EP has 3 compositions we wrote together, drawing from prior recorded improvisations, plus two studio improvisations which we later edited and dubbed. We came into it trying to do an electro-acoustic version of house music through repetition of jazzy loops and came out with Esferas.
Live dance music, Fender Rhodes, drums, funk.
We’re currently focused on the release of Esferas, and then we will worry about the future.
We have a record release show in Santiago on August 25th.
A huge thank you to Cuerpo Docente for taking the time to share their insights and inspirations. Their magnetic mix of house, jazz, and funk is reshaping Santiago’s soundscape. Dive into their rhythmic world and don’t forget to grab your copy of their latest EP, ‘Esferas’, available now on Dream Chimney. Let the vibes of Santiago resonate in your soul!
Tagged as: Dream Chimney, Cuerpo Docente, Esferas, Jazz, new music.
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