Sofia Kourtesis for Dublin DJ headliner

The Peruvian electronic artist released one of my favourite albums of 2023.

Sofia Kourtesis is back in Dublin later this year for a DJ set gig on October 5th, at The Grand Social.

Tickets are €22 plus fees available from singularartists.ie on Friday 26th July at 10am.  Doors at 11pm.

The Berlin-based Peruvian producer’s debut album Madres, comes with a backstory involving the neurosurgeon Peter Vajkoczy, who the album is dedicated to, after he successfully operated on her mother’s cancer.

Vajkoczy became a sounding board for the album, and the pair even went to Berghain together.

This origin story imbues the album’s ten electronic productions with a nice backdrop, but the album’s warm-hearted electronica leaves a sustained impression regardless, and the songs here find kinship with the sort of fuzzy melodic sonics heard on the quieter end of a Caribou record.

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