Alejandra Cárdenas
Alejandra Cárdenas returns under her birth name with
A Body Like a Home — a project shaped
by memory, silence, and the
quiet labour of witnessing.
Best known for her work as Ale Hop, Cárdenas now shifts inward. Where earlier albums leaned toward sonic experimentation and collaboration, this one moves with restraint. Released on Other People, the record unfolds as both sound and text: thirteen songs and fifteen poems that trace personal and political histories with care. Processed guitar, Gibrana Cervantes’ violin, and field recordings — rainfall, broken glass, breath — form a subdued, tactile landscape. Her voice, by turns fractured, whispered, or clear, carries the weight of lived experience without embellishment.
Drawn from her early years in Peru under the Fujimori regime, the work addresses domestic violence, systemic erasure, and inherited grief. Yet it refuses catharsis. The aim is not resolution but presence.
Performed live, the material holds close. There is no spectacle — only stillness, duration, and a sense of shared space. A Body Like a Home asks to be listened to slowly. What it offers is quiet, unguarded, and deeply human.
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Other People is a label and publishing platform founded in New York in 2013 by Nicolás Jaar
Run by Jaar together with Nicolina Claeson, and guided by a deliberately low-profile presence, the label’s catalogue spans over ninety releases that slip between genre and form. Projects like 2021's Caves, a compilation of silences featuring Laraaji, Aho Ssan, Ana Quiroga, and others, and Weavings, a collaborative live piece with among others Juliana Huxtable, Ellen Fullman, Wukir Suryadi, and Rully Sha;ara of Senyawa, and Angel Bat Dawid. Other releases include works by Lucrecia Dalt, Lydia Lunch, Aho Ssan, Dienne, Sary Moussa, aylu, and the debut album from Ali Sethi & Jaar.
Beyond output, Other People is defined by its structure where artists retain all rights and determine their own revenue post-recoupment. Any profits are redistributed through grants, studios, and workshops such as the Overtones grant for LA musicians, Ladridos grant, and series of Workshops in Santiago de Chile, the Alrowwad electronic music grant and workshop in Bethlehem and (un)building listenings workshop at Dar Jacir in Bethlehem. Moreover, it has donated to over three dozen exceptional organizations and individuals through the 'Thank you for existing Grant'.
Aiming to highlight and offer a platform for artists outside the mainstream, Other People is a label that listens; to artists, to context, to the ground beneath the sound.
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