Auxlupe
When I arrived in Slovakia in 2017 due to my EVS project in KERIC (Čadca), I had a cultural shock about how different our cultures are. But after some time, I could start seeing all the similarities, and specifically how patriarchy affects all of us in every place in the world. Even though I was just starting to play the ukulele in May 2019, and because back then I had a really close experience with a friend suffering from gender and domestic violence, I wrote my first song "Vamonos".
In Argentina, things are very different, and being a feminist has become an unavoidable thing for all women. It's become a particular way to release the anger and pain in front of such terrible situations, and the only way to change things around us and grow as a better society.
"Vamonos" is an offer of understanding, listening, support and sorority. It's a song about violence and absence. And it's just me telling you that we can help each other and overcome it.
After a year of that moment, with the circularity of life and the universe setting me in the same physical and symbolical spot, I was doing this art residency project in Stanica Záriečie about accepting myself as an artist, recognising my own art and trajectory, improving my performance, recording my very first song in a studio and make a video as a document of the process of creation. And, of course, release my pain and anger too.
Art residency at the volunteers house (Zilina, Slovakia)
After two weeks of working on the sound, chords and lyrics, I could record it in a professional studio with my friend Viktor Vasil, a charismatic and sensitive Slovak musician and composer, who worked as a technician and second voice. Here is the result: