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At Devil Dirt Release New Single “We are Mapuches”

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 25th, 2020 by JJ Koczan

Hey, At Devil Dirt. It’s been a while. I like the new logo. New song too? Even better. Don’t mind me, I’ll help myself.

Chilean two-piece At Devil Dirt released their most recent album, Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución (review here), in 2013 through Bilocation Records/Kozmik Artifactz. In 2015, the band’s rehearsal space was brutally robbed and all their gear stolen. A single followed in 2016 called “Help Us” that was an attempt to begin anew and maybe acquire some funding for new equipment.

It’s been four years. The Mapuche people are indigenous to regions of Chile and the surrounding nations, and as guitarist/vocalist Néstor Ayala explains below, they are a population that has actively worked against colonization for centuries. That struggle continues now as groups battle for things like land rights and official recognition. I won’t claim any expertise on the conflict, but it seems fair enough ground for At Devil Dirt to peruse and a people from whom the band might take inspiration as they continue their own trials.

“We are Mapuches” runs 12 minutes — because if you haven’t done a new song in four years, make it count — and has a psych-drone feel to it that’s distinct from the tone-forward riffing that defined much of the band’s past work. What this will lead to, if anything, I haven’t a clue, but as it had been so long, I was just glad to see they had something new together. My initial reaction to the Bandcamp email is right there in the first line on this post. True reportage.

Here’s the release info:

at devil dirt we are mapuches

AT DEVIL DIRT – WE ARE MAPUCHES

Araucaria forest,
… A calm lake and the mountain range,
closed off by the immensity of the landscape.
Here lives a kind of human being in perfect
balance of wisdom,
the way of living the land, the natural order
Man above things

We Are mapuches

How can I explain to people why I should be
proud of the mapuches
Epic Poem they are, noble people, high sense
of human dignity and freedom…

The have have resisted 4 centuries defending their land…

released June 23, 2020
Nestor Ayala

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At Devil Dirt, “We are Mapuches”

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