
Mapuche violin and kanklės duo, built from improvisation
This is voice, violin, and kanklės in a quiet, roomy register, with long tones, bowed sustain, and folk melody fragments. The album Después de llover suggests a set that sits between improvised chamber music and shaped song, with lots of air around the instruments and a patient, rain-soaked pacing.
Eli Wewentxu is a Mapuche artist from Chomío, in Gulumapu/Wallmapu, who works across composition, sound art, and audiovisual media. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė is a Lithuanian singer and kanklės player best known from Merope, the Belgian-based group built around voice, kanklės, guitar, bansuri, bass, and percussion; this duo came out of meeting at Le Guess Who? 2024 and made their collaboration into Después de llover.
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