pedro engel anuncia el fin del patriarcado (2020)
album
composition, vocals, production, mixing: me
cover art: María Ignacia Valdebenito
you know how every time someone releases something new they say it's their most personal song/album/work?
well i think this was actually the case for me. this second album is a short one (and yes it's an album no i'm not debating)
but i feel my voice (thus my body) and my own biography much evidently being part of it.
there's a lot of self-references here. i even say my deadname in the lyrics of the last song which i censored everytime i performed funa a utena live.
but i think that made a lot of people engage with this record in a special way, particularly people from chile.
the album keeps its focus on the electronic production but i think it feels much more care-free and diy
than Tercer Impacto-- not that Tercer Impacto wasn't diy, or that i didn't spend a lot of time working on this one.
but it does have a sense of innocence to it in a way, and i think that's something that was starting to build over
in my work since then.
i also integrated an acoustic instrument (a venezuelan cuatro) in ropa de chico and funa a utena, and
it's particularly prominent on the latter.
on these songs i also changed a lot of how i was writing songs and lyrics up until that point.
that care-freeness really took over that process and i started to work a lot with collaging notes on my phone,
taking quotes from animes i was watching (Utena?????????), and putting a lot of attention on social
media language, which i think reinforces the algorithm-like nature of the collage approach.
or is it the other way around, whatever.
actually the title was something i read on a couple of instagram stories during the 2019-2022 social movement in
chile-- yes it was written during that time frame so maybe that's why i came back to the topic
of the end of the world on the lyrics. it translates as: pedro engel announces the end of patriarchy.
i thought it was funny and silly, particularly considering the context of what was going on. also don't get
me started on who
is pedro engel.