9 Artists to Know From Bogotá’s Flourishing Ambient Scene
The story of ambient music in Bogotá, Colombia, doesn’t begin with the pandemic playlists of 2020. It goes back to the crackle of tape machines in the 1960s, when Jacqueline Nova opened a breach in Colombian music. Nova’s Creación de la tierra—a piece that merged indigenous chants with electronic circuitry—already contained many of the qualities that ambient would later claim: slowness, texture, immersion. Yet her experiments, and those of her teacher Fabio González Zuleta (author of the country...