memory in machines, in tapes, 
the haunted harmonies
. I am lucky i have liaisons that have already worked deeply with the archive and the politics around it. That is why making this a horizontal project will be much much richer experience. apparently Don Gabriel, The sonido duenez, is very old. so there is a big sense of purpose that has allowed me to reconnect to time, not having my own questions as the center motor. I will draft and make sense of this all very very soon. just wanted to be able to speak of my musical plans with the project with them as we start to scheme out all the parts etc. i have a suspicion that long term, their connection with rosa pistola can benefit them mutually business wise with the sonidero being able to get their music out. so bringing them both in creatively -is also very motivated by projecting towards a future that can keep sustaining these sounds. 
for me personally, what i would like to get out of this one is, to be able to write a record with the archive- use the archive to speak about the archive, all the efforts around having a sonido, how this type of cumbia was invented /came to be/ and to bring it the work of my friends who are maintaining it. do an homage but creatively , use the techniques of rebajada, focus on that as a motiff in dialogue with itself etc. i have and play the actual vallenato acordeon- it was my moms- and i was trying to device a form of processing through my arp 2600.. so i think i will actually like play over the work not just "sample" it. in literal ways. its all about discussing the physical archive as it relates to its abstraction/digitization/use which is a big part of my research, my connection amongst all the things i make.
Sonido Duenez himself/ the story itself should be in museums , and the music/looks/their scene is just...the actual fucking best. ofc its my home town, so im biased by yeah. Sabotage i met decades ago in zapatismo activismo. my actual commrades lol who also cared about media our role as artists as we relate to the local / regional in mestizo societies. they have all sorts of photographic materials, research, thoughts knowlesge about it & i think they could edit a booklet that i would like to produce print and put out at the same time. i think if you would be down, i dream of a compilation or something curated by them, to come out in a physical form too. This is where I would like to bring Rosa Pistola in. she has a label that has steadily growing doing really good a& r and very community / fair you know- not extraacting exploiting. she is doing it in the best way and obviously has massive recognition as an international interface. She has made an impressive business model of distro and physically/sociologically opening markets and real consumption of music on the ground in mexico /online. it would be such a beautiful operation for a sabotage based curated sonido duenez repertoire to enter her channels and into the sonideros of all the geographies that fuck with it.