We celebrate the release of Wampís of Guayabal & Aboutface ‘Los Bosquesinos‘ with an exclusive Inverted Audio Record Store interview with UK-based artists and musician Ben Kelly aka Aboutface. This powerful collaboration is the result of an eight-year project deep in the Amazon rainforest, created alongside the Wampís Nation.
An intercultural collaboration with the Indigenous Wampís forest community living in the Peruvian Amazon: exploring evocative soundscapes and ancient nampet songs in the Wampís Territory, to support indigenous-led conservation, and initiatives against illegal deforestation and acts of ecocide.
During a month living with the Wampís in the Amazon Rainforest, Aboutface and the Wampis community collaboratively captured field-recordings, music instrumentation and traditional Wampis Nampets – ancient songs sung from the perspective of animals living in their rainforest environment.
These recordings then informed 4 improvised performances to articulate the story of the 4 Nampet songs, from within the habitat of each animal, to depict nature and culture as inseparable, and to propose that humanity is not exclusive to humans, but a multinaturalist characteristic available to all living organisms.
This is the first project of its kind in Wampís history and contains sound recordings of biodiversity that no longer exist due to deforestation. Limited edition of 300 carbon neutral ISCC-certified Bio Vinyl. 100% of all sales revenues from this release will directly go to the Wampís to protect their rainforest territory.
Wampís of Guayabal & Aboutface ‘Los Bosquesinos’ is out now via Coordinates. Buy a vinyl copy from Inverted Audio Record Store.
TRACKLIST
A1. Kutuir (Parrott)
A2. Wancha (Fish)
B1. Manchi (Grasshopper)
B2. Pinchichi (Hawk)
