Avant-garde Colombian singer-songwriter Julián Mayorga returns with his ninth album, a clattering, absurdist slice of post-cumbia psychedelia. Chak Chak Chak Chak is a feverish mix of angular electric guitars, circuit-bent beats, found percussion, and rapid-fire incantations, with influences that include Tom Zé, Tom Waits, and Captain Beefheart. Frenetic energy meets satirical wit. Surrealist fables entwined with defiant sonics.
Live, Julián Mayorga sets in motion a machine that connects the audience to the dreamiest and wildest part of the Colombian mountain range. A forest like a wormhole where frenetic dances, anthropomorphic animals, electrifying guitars and synthesisers, percussion like a junkyard, images by Spanish artist Marta Orozco Villarrubia and lights designed by Colombian artist Caroline Moreno coexist.
Throughout the live performance, stories of the Andean peoples are told: fables and parables that speak of the mountain as a living organism, a bestiary in which ghosts appear, gods incarnated in rats or a group of chickens who decide to take over a village and form a guerrilla group to overthrow the national government.
