FÖLLAKZOID - THE IMMORTAL SAMSARA TRAVELERS

"An all-enveloping experience both sinister and slightly disconcerting”

Domingæ is a Chilean musician and filmmaker living in Mexico City; she founded her band Föllakzoid in 2007 and since then she has been touring and putting out some of the most mind bending music out in the renown Sacred Bones Records labels.

Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere.

Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. “I found my sonic and metric identity even more in these songs than in our previous attempts,” guitarist and singer Domingæ Garcia-Huidobro explains.

THE IMMORTAL SAMSARA TRAVELERS

The Immortal Samsara Travelers is an ever changing, ever revolving idea, philosophy and primarily musical ensemble of cultural and sonic prophets. Adopting the aesthetics of heavy, frequential and binaural drone maximalism, analog synthesizers, musique concrete experimentation, shamanic chants and traditional eastern instrumentation with heavy distorted face-melting sub bass and amplified guitar. There is little room for insignificant mind-chatter when these urgent sounds blast into the ears.