After the first collaboration in 2003 showed great promise – a song called ‘Tumba y Cajon’ recorded in Paris with the musicians of Susana Baca – the two friends decided to persevere with their quest.  Constant trips to Lima and several studio sessions in Paris followed, always fed by the concept of digging up the collective memories going back to the Spanish colonizers arriving on the Pacific Coast of South America.  RADIOKIJADA revisits this history, not to create something for a museum display, but linking it to the present by adding an electronic touch.  In order to achieve this, they dig deep for the essence of the original groove.  Whilst their vision is more futurist than blinded by tradition, there is great respect for the traditions guarded by the Afro-Peruvian community for centuries.

Black skin, white masks – identities are interchanged and clichés lost along the way.  Reference points teeter in the perpetual to and fro.  RADIOKIJADA is also a journey through the ages and across the oceans, an odyssey that puts in perspective through sound an almost forgotten aesthetic in an enigmatic blend of the organic and synthetic.  As a spatiotemporal break somewhere between Lima and Paris, an improbable mix of Cuba and Fela which grabs your legs and blows your mind.

Jacques Denis