Tickets available for purchase on Eventbrite (see link below) Neptune 7 and CADENA proudly present an evening of electronic music that explores experimentation and sound migration; blurring lines between popular and sacred, the balance between traditional and futuristic & beyond spaces of deep listening and the club. This event is part of Chapel Sound's Constellation Festival happening from Nov 12 - 15. Borders act like semi-permeable membranes, but a membrane is not a wall. It is a living tissue that is dynamic and in constant negotiation with what passes through it, in contrast to nation-state borders, which are restrictive by Machiavellian design. The tissue that binds cultures and histories is neither permeable nor fixed. It gains and grows through sharing; stories migrate, sounds travel from sound system to sound system, ideas cross borders that some bodies (by design) cannot; seeding new combinations, new pathways and new forms of ecological and cultural resilience. Current Latin American and electronic music from Abya Yala & Bwia doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It comes from a long lineage of sounds originating in Precolumbian times that survived conquest, alongside ancestors that survived Middle Passage and imposed/shifting borders. They come from a long bloodline of resilience that survived extraction, dictatorships and genocide. Against all odds these ancestors created revolutions and achieved homeostasis and even peace within ustopia*. Their sounds have traveled, merged, migrated and changed through time. And although some popular genres have mutated, their successors contain and honour the same genetic makeup of their source. These mutations are not errors. They exist because of that moment when an artist takes the chance to rewrite, mold, and to breathe new life into a form. The genetic makeup of genres are not fixed codes but living sequences, patterns and signatures, rewritten across borders, oceans, generations & time. They are vessels for new stories left by previous generations for new ones to fill and express themselves through. For this evening of live music we bring three live performances of artists working in the space between tradition and experimentation, while being faithful and respectful to their origins: ★ Sewa Chokis’ convergence of Yoeme ceremonial music with Tejano & Tribal. ★Benfika’s experimentations within the cutting-edge sounds coming from Tijuana’s Northern border music ecosystem and sonic lineage. ★ Entrañas’ defying of what we understand by cultural heritage through a sound that blurs the lines between ambient and bass while firmly manifesting and drawing from his Latino identity and Ecuadorian heritage as the heart of his productions. All these artists belong to a thriving ecosystem of music that is interconnected despite borders and is part of a collective search across time, cultures and many communal and individual efforts to be what it is today. ★ Clara (Brazil) joins us as a VJ for this evening complementing the live performances, creating real time visuals that lean into fragmentation, glitches and corruption where error becomes rhythm, texture and a language in itself. We acknowledge and are deeply thankful that this programming takes place on is the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. *Ustopia: a term coined by Margaret Atwood, merging utopia and dystopia, to describe that every imagined perfect society contains the seeds of its opposite, and every nightmare society holds a version of what its people hoped for.