DJ Click - Djclick y Colelo Identidad Mapuche '2020

Tracks list

Well-known for his  self-described “crazy global meetings”, DJ
Click has lately teamed up with Colelo Identidad Mapuche, a punky-protest group
devoted to promoting the culture of the Mapuche, an indigenous folk group in
southern Chile, who Click describes as “the Gypsies of Chile”. 
Click is most often associated with his electronic reworking of Gypsy music,
perhaps most notably hooked up with Romanian singer and actress Rona Hartner. He
has also worked with gnawa, Rajasthani and sufi Qawwali singing as well as
dabbled in Balkan music, with his tracks kept in high rotation at Balkan
parties. 
There are no itchy and infectious dance track hits, like “El
Razonamiento” in Balkanandalusia, or “Vasalache” from the
album with Rona Hartner (2005) created at the height of the Balkan craze.
Two club-wise tracks come close, including the trancy Bio Bio, which contains a
vocal segment that is both a paean to the Chilean river Bio Bio and a hymn of
protest directed at the powers that wish to dam up the river, thus estranging
the indigenous people from their source of life – spiritual and material.
All in all, we have before us eight tracks that are by turns spiritual,
minimalistic and club-wise. Traditional instruments are used to spectacular
effect. 
We have the trutrucka: a kind of spiral-shaped trumpet, made of colihue
wood  with a terminal or lateral mouthpiece and a cattle horn to amplify
the sound; the pfilka (wooden flute); cultrun, a ceremonial drum
specific to the Mapuche – all of which lend themselves remarkably well to
Click’s electronic revamping.

Robert Rigney



1.01 - DJ Click - Danza Mapuche (Spiritual Mix) (2:46)
1.02 - DJ Click - Lonko Mew (2:50)
1.03 - DJ Click - Wajkolxa (2:57)
1.04 - DJ Click - Bio Bio (Club Mix) (4:19)
1.05 - DJ Click - Afanfan (Tropical Mix) (4:35)
1.06 - DJ Click - Danza Mapuche (Club Mix) (3:49)
1.07 - DJ Click - Choyque Purrun (Chilcano Mix) (4:20)
1.08 - DJ Click - Bio Bio (Instrumenal) (4:19)

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