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.
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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.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
