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• Sajjra - Serpent is Present (Album, 2023). Limited edition of handmade lenticular A4 poster

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  WATCH A VIDEO of the poster vimeo.com/867512553
  
  THIS ALBUM WAS COMPOSED TO BE LISTENING CONTINUOUSLY, TRY TO LISTEN TO IT WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS AND WITHOUT SPACE BETWEEN THE TRACKS.
  
  “Serpent is Present” (album, 2023) was produced and recorded by Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta Pando between 2020 and 2022 in the Netherlands
  and Turkey. Mastered by Arthur A. S. Artwork by Margarita Milova and Bobby Peru. Published by Otono (Mexico), Arsenic Solaris
  (France) and Aloardi (Turkey / Russia) in September 2023.
  
  *Gracias a la sangre Xauxa y Huanca, a Eusebio “Chato” Grados, a la familia Castillo Agüero y al resonar del Valle del Mantaro.
  
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  About Serpent is Present
  
  In the ancient Andean-Amazonian culture, the serpent represents the underground (in space) and the past (in time) and is also related
  to water, maternal and feminine powers, fertility, continuity and the earthly energy that connects the different worlds. 'Serpent is
  Present', the name of Sajjra´s new release, is an anagram and a play on words to invoke those powers and reconnect us with them
  through the sounds. The "underground" or self-managed artistic communities have always been a cultural alternative to what is going
  on in the mainstream, refreshing contemporary human societies with challenging organizational strategies and artistic ideas not
  necessarily committed to a market or to private or governmental interests. During the hard times we lived through with the
  pandemic and what we are living now with the current geopolitical situation in the world, many self-managed organizations and
  communities are disappearing. More than ever, it is important to reconnect face to face with these self-managed organizations that
  are still alive and Sajjra wants to do it especially with cultures and countries that are not considered in the itinerary of artists
  and cultural activators because of geopolitical issues. Music is a fundamental act of life. Sharing it with any people in the
  framework of a publication or a concert closes a circle of continuity in life. The 'Serpent is Present' is a reconnection with our
  deep roots through the otherness in an invisible umbilical cord. It is a bridge between alternative cultures beyond borders,
  governments or any system that tries to separate and repress us.
  
  Dissidents from Peru, Ukraine, Russia, France and around the world. We are people, not governments.
  Since now and forever the Serpent is Present!
  
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  Album lyrics
  
  
  Suena como azul radiante (oración del mediodía)
  
  Vi una virgen adornandome en Azul
  vi llover mis pensamientos condenados
  adornandome el cabello con espinas
  
  Ella vuela lentamente hacia mi
  ha escapado del silencio de mis manos
  mariposa atravesada con espinas
  
  Vi una virgen adornandome en Azul
  vi llover mis pensamientos condenados
  adornandome el cabello con espinas
  
  
  Beso fin y descenso
  
  Acarició mi voz palpitando
  acaricio el cielo de mi dulce adicción
  beso fin y descenso
  mi descenso otra vez
  
  Similar al sol azul
  similar al beso de mi compenetración
  beso fin y descenso
  de mis alas de hielo
  
  Y en mis alas de hielo
  acarició espejos de mi compenetración
  beso fin y descenso
  sin recuerdos y sin piel
  
  Acarició el sol azul
  Acaricio
  
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  About Sajjra
  
  'Sajjras' music is a collection of telluric, ethereal, unique and unclassifiable songs that can evoke the resonance of
  Andean orchestras or sublime natural landscapes. They emanate textures and rhythms that call up urban and rural soundscapes
  mutating in epiphanies full of noise, color and trance."
  
  Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta Pando (Peru, 1976) is one of the important figures of the South American underground. Going back and
  forth from Europe, Asia, Latin America and his homeland, he has been experimenting with music, nomadism, dissidence, noise and arts
  in a strictly DIY way since 1995. This philosophy has led him to expand his poetry into realms such as song writing, installation art,
  software-hardware hacking, free improvisation, electroacustic and psychoacoustic compositions. His constant metamorphosis has
  given rise to numerous aliases and side projects: Aloardi, DiosMeHaViolado, Evamuss, Christian Galarreta, Tica, and Invisible
  Architecture among others.
  
  His song project Sajjra emerged from the depths of the "Uku Pacha" in 2012, merging psychedelic songs with andean-tropical music and
  radical sound experimentation. With the release of the three albums 'Sajjra' (CD, Aloardi, 2013) , 'The Sun Remains The Same'
  (12" Vinyl, Aloardi/Urbanoide/Fougere Musique, 2015), and 'Synthexcess' (12" Vinyl, Buh Records, 2019) Sajjra fascinated the
  Peruvian alternative media, who chose 'The Sun Remains The Same' as album of the year 2015 and 'Synthexcess', as album of the year
  2019. Sajjra's new album titled "Serpent is Present'' will be published in September 2023 by Aloardi (Peru - Holland) in lenticular
  poster format and by Arsenic Solaris (France) on CD.
  
  In anticipation of this release, in July, Aloardi released the single 'Srpnt s Prsnt' as a handmade lenticular postcard designed in
  three different versions by the Russian artist Margarita Milova. This postcard contains a QR-Code to download a 24-minute, 26-second
  single composed by Sajjra during different periods of 2020 and 2022 between The Netherlands and Turkey. Otono label (Mexico) will
  also release a tape version of the single in August, accompanied by remixes by Mexican artists Flores de Mezcalapa and Concepción
  Huerta. The single was presented at live concerts on July 19 in Saint Petersburg, 20 in Tallin and 21 in Oporto and 22 in Marseille.
  The CD will be presented in other European cities in the coming months.
  
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  Sajjra links
  
  Site: cielopresenteytotal.wordpress.com
  www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/sajjra-synthexcess-lp/BR.098LP.html
  youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3yw9PQrzJZjxRmCwrTu3XIdf6byKACxo
  daily.bandcamp.com/features/crisalida-sonica-feature?fbclid=IwAR3QfArv1yIUb4rzl0hQvFwjN0x5QxFG60GVhd9f1B-oqGSda8cPvPBa44U
  sajjra.bandcamp.com
  IG: sjjrxhrs
  FB: sajjra sajjra
  
  Link Margarita Milova (Artwork):
  IG: www.instagram.com/mares_llamas/
  
  Labels links
  
  Aloardi
  aloardi.org
  aloardi.bandcamp.com
  www.instagram.com/aloardi_/
  
  Arsenic Solaris
  arsenicsolaris.bandcamp.com
  www.instagram.com/arsenic.solaris/
  
  Otono
  otono.space
  otonolabel.bandcamp.com
  www.instagram.com/otonospace/
  
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