BIO
GOTOPO has given us a science fiction story not unlike those of N. K. Jemisin."
— Queen City Sounds.
Currently GOTOPO works together with Grammy Award Producer Ulises Lozano, Simon Mejia, Robot Koch and others on her first EP. First Songs have been presented live in June 2022 at MELT Festival.
In September 2021 GOTOPO performed with 15 other musicians at the Opening Ceremony of the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art at the Humboldt Forum Berlin with audience members Frank-Walter Steinmeier, president of Germany and renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: building bridges between pop culture and the academic arts is a passion.
Her 3rd independently released single ‘Eso’ with Joaquin Cornejo rapidly earned features on BBC 6, Worldwide fm, XLR8R, DJ MAG and landed organically in ‘Electrica Selvática’ (295k listeners): fascinating milestones for an independent artist with just 3 releases.
GOTOPO’s debut single Malembe takes the viewer through a time travel from pre-hispanic times to a pos-colonial present in an elegant showcase of indigenous futurism: it tells an untold story of America that starts "before it was America". Featuring Venezuelan indigenous goddess Maria Lionza and the golden Goddess of Muisca people Bachué (modern Colombia), Malembe brings a modern tell on a history that in GOTOPO's words "has been erased from our school books".
Malembe and its neo-indigenous aesthetics gave GOTOPO a world-building character and a sound that became her signature.
LISTEN
Maravilla En La Desgracia
As if Gotopo's whispered, almost ASMR like, sultry Latin voice wasn't engaging enough, she is riding an impressive, at times hushed, ultimately thunderous cinematic arrangement from Robot Koch that propels the track into the realms of Latin folk futurism.
- The slow Movement
Eso
"Eso brings the drums back in a propulsive way, with Gotopo arriving in grand fashion, with forceful, dominant vocals.” --- Beats per minute
Malembe
The song is driven by the majestic-like vocals of Gotopo and backed by a futuristic beat that thrives on intense and mysterious energy.
WATCH
OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO 'MALEMBE'
The video shows what looks like a series of scenes that blur the line between a mystic ritual and an intimate dance club. Gotopo has given us a science fiction story not unlike those of N. K. Jemisin.
-Queen City Sounds.
HIGHLIGHTS
GOTOPOs performance at Melt Festival 2022
Support Act for Lido Pimienta, Kantine am Berghain
GOTOPO's performance (min. 49:30) for the Opening of the 'Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst' w/Speeches by President of Germany Steinmeier, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters.
PRESS QUOTES
Maravilla En La Desgracia
"As if Gotopo's whispered, almost ASMR like, sultry Latin voice wasn't engaging enough, she is riding an impressive, at times hushed, ultimately thunderous cinematic arrangement from Robot Koch that propels the track into the realms of Latin folk futurism." - theslowmusicmovement
Eso
"Eso brings the drums back in a propulsive way, with Gotopo arriving in grand fashion, with forceful, dominant vocals.” --- Beats per minute
...deep and sultry vocals and synth stabs feed-backing on tape create a driving blend of African percussion and footwork with a subtle touch of dub techno. --- Beatport
Eso out on Joaquin Cornejo's EP 'Las Frutas'. ----- XLR8R
Malembe
"A “futuristic soundtrack of Latin roots, a mashup of Lido Pimienta, FKA Twigs and Bomba Estéreo”, Malembe never stops to bring you forth, or let you go."— Come here Floyd.
“In the video for her new single ‘Malembe’ Gotopo invites us to imagine a future where pre-European contact religions and cultures of the Americas and ancient African cultures have produced a syncretic culture”.
-Queen City Sounds.
The song is driven by the majestic-like vocals of Gotopo and backed by a futuristic beat that thrives on intense and mysterious energy.
— Our Culture mag
LIVE
Hirshhorn Museum - Washington DC
21. April 2023
Closing Act of the "State of the Arts Night", an event of the European Union and Hirshhorn Museum, supported by the embassy of the federal republic of Germany
Columbiahalle
24. November 22
Support Act of Bomba Estereo
Mensch Meier
12. June 2022
MELT - Liquid Jungle
10. June 2022
Kantine am Berghain
Lido Pimienta
17. May 2022
