‘Incendios’ is the second release from Artificio and Andrés Hernández’s, a.k.a. Rainmaker, debut album. Here he creates an exhilarating labyrinth of blackouts and breaks that invites the listener to savor both harmony and dissonance.
Through field recordings captured by his cell phone and accompanying the recording process with his SP-404SX, the creation of pads and sound design in Ableton, Rainmaker resorts to environmental sounds from Medellín and relies on vocals in Spanish. This allows ‘Incendios’ album to begin with a colloquial message about the country’s street fruit vendors, who day by day roam the neighborhoods, letting percussion and environmental ascents intersect and entangle in an awakening with the voices of Sarah Jaramillo and his ex-boss, in ‘Sótanos’ the most personal track on the album, inspired by bad work experiences in an office in a small basement.
The most critical moments come in the last tracks, recorded and composed while the country was in protests against the government. The voices of the young marchers, the blow of stun bombs, and the infinite sound of the cacerolazos, show the rumbling of a city that was on fire and cried out for help. This is reflected in the track we are presenting now, ‘Todo lo que quema + Purifica’, where he transitions from worldliness to something pure after a transition of illumination in ‘Zenith’, perceiving the calm of a rain and the poetic voice of Talvezmanuela. All this being guarded by a sharp and intimidating rhythm that questions defeat.
“When you think of fire, it is understood as a purifying element. The same happens when the fight or flight response arrives: adrenaline flows and perception connects, marking a behavior of emotional intensity that creates transitions; like the one that is reflected in Rainmaker, supported by a context of protest experienced in Colombia during the composition of ‘Incendios’.” – Rainmaker
‘Incendios’ EP will be available after the 12th of March HERE.
