In this conversation we talk with artist, traveller poet, and decolonial storyteller Aldo Ramos about his work on the pluriversity he is co-creating in Colombia. He tells about how he came to do this work, and why it is so important for the pluriversity to exist. Not in resistance to Western forms of knowledge, but as a form of re-existence. This knowledge is profoundly communal, relational and created by a weaving based on the South American concepts of sentipensar and buen vivir.

The pluriversity Aldo talks about is built and shared with many people, among others: Patricia Botero-Gomez, and Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo.

Book quoted:
Rolando Vázquez. Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial aesthesis and the end of the Contemporary. Jap Sam Books, 2020. (to be purchased here https://www.japsambooks.nl/collections/nieuwe-titels/products/vistas-of-modernity)

For more information on the concepts sentipensar and buen vivir:
Arturo Escobar, ´Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South´
https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/1101/110102e.pdf
 
Other books and sources about the Arhuacans and the Koguis:
Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo. Camino en espiral. Yo’ Sa Ingunu.
https://www.abebooks.com/9789587590760/Camino-espiral-Yo%E2%80%99-Ingunu-Natalia-9587590767/plp

Patricia Botero Gómez. Alicia Itatí Palermo. Rita de Cássia Alves Oliveira. Xochitl Leyva (eds.) Generaciones en movimientos y movimientos generacionales. Escribanías hechas a varias manos, varios pasos y corazones. 
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/buscar_libro_detalle.php?id_libro=1834&campo=titulo&texto=Generaciones%20en%20movimientos%20y%20movimientos%20generacionales

https://www.otraparte.org/agenda-cultural/literatura/no-digan-que-nadie-les-dijo-nada/ 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aluna

Photo by Diana Cantarey

#2 The pluriversity and knowledge as a weaving - with Aldo E. Ramos

Seriously tearjerking soundtracking from @andrea_andreaaa

₀₃₄ 𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮_𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮

Recorded at kwia in berlin, did a bit of light editing. big thanks to @jp_kiku for the invite.

SSIEGE x Lite Therapy - Kwia Feb '25

No trace w/ Alena Petite (29/04/25)

M5 // JS (FBi 94.5)

New mix by Deardogs label operator Stonesheet ~ the sounds in this one feel reflective of the wide yet honed spectrum his label is known for, which has released great tunes by Forma Norte, Gyeongsu & June, and plenty more. <3 

https://soundcloud.com/stonesheet
https://soundcloud.com/deardogs

0018 - The Holy Mountain ft. Noise Kills Silence
John T. Gast - NUN-1
Yeah You - Glore 
Rébecca Bonté - Un Problème 
MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - House In The Hills 
Aaron Dilloway - Siena 5
Vatican Shadow - CIA Contractor Freed Over Pakistan Killings 
Simon Fisher Turner - Brother James Plays J.S. Bach’s Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott on the Great Rissington Organ 
Ssaliva - Deceiver 
Low End Activist - Broke 
Leo - Funicular 
Le Frit - Lotophagie 
Mukqs - Warning High Cube
Demeters Döttrar - Lad Hundene Hyle 
Bug Bus Piano - Said One Word It All Unraveled
James Ferraro - Handsome

Motion Cast Vol. 97: Stonesheet

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-maria-somerville/episodes/early-bird-show-maria-somerville-28th-july-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 280725

A monthly hour from Jane Records label-runner Braden Wells. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/braden-wells/episodes/braden-wells-1st-august-2025

Braden Wells 010825

Sixty first episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @emmiill24

Tracklist:
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Akira Umeda- Rato Gordo
Hánkel Bellido - Yavireri - Transiciones de agua
Ursula's Cartridges - Borora Aurealis
AV moves - Z7-n-heaven
Finno-Ugric Shaman Orchestra UMPU - Udmurt Shaman
BRITISH MUSEUM - PUS CHA CHA
nudo - Lycan
nudo - Acaballo
Guervens - final fantasy blades
Folder - Attached Seeds
Jiyoung Wi - Rina in the cursed elevator
Chuquimamani-Condori - Recordar Es Volver A Vivir E DJ edit
Duo Las Perlas De Huancavalica - Vaca Ratay
Aki Onda - Good-Bye
Amanda Portales - Pio, Pio
Polido - Saque
loto retina - impro11
La Rat - Metal
Steve Fisk - Love X 8
qwqwqwqwa - The Simulant
Russell Walker & Henry Holmes- Holy Gale
Hyu - ガムランに憧れて (Longing for Gamelan)
Glauco Salvo - 9.46
Das B - Love, Part I
Oï les Ox - Serrure Relax
Sergei Komarov meets Purpurniy Dyadya - թաքնված գիծ
Florian Stéphant - Jazzouillis
Norma Tanega - A Street That Rhymes at 6 AM
Fordmastiff - Fäeryanimal I
Polido - Livre (D'A Casa)
Hánkel Bellido - Yavireri - Cantos de Pajaritos
kinked - Untitled_003_2025

States United 61: Emill Mi

"an exploration of humid sounds for wet ears"

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Living Room n°88 ~ @user-195275547

q. pls introduce yourself…
Hello, we are forest.exe (Sven and Silvan). We run a label that focuses on ambient, avant-garde and experimental music. It is called Jurassic Ambient Records. The name is inspired by the Jura forests in Switzerland, where we live and grew up. We create our own mixes and also release guest mixes as well as music from friends and anyone interested. We started about four years ago. Over time, we gradually moved away from technoid sounds and club culture, and began experimenting and mixing together within the genres of ambient, experimental and drone, where we felt more at home. For us, it is essential to connect music with the wellbeing in nature, which is also the origin of everything.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
This time we created the mix with Ableton in Sven’s home studio, nestled near the Jurassic forest — not, as we usually do, in a rehearsal room with a Pioneer setup. It was a warm and luminous day at the very beginning of summer. Surrounded by nature, we let the atmosphere guide us, working spontaneously and intuitively. Instead of CDJs, we wanted to explore a new approach, giving ourselves more time and space to shape the flow. This allowed us to engage more deeply with each track and to sculpt the transitions with greater precision.
The result is a mix that feels reduced and calming, almost dreamlike, yet still carries a quiet strength. It mirrors the uncertainties and concerns we feel about the world, and the question of how we might navigate through them. We dedicated an entire day to the process, with pauses, a few beers, and long conversations about the value of music and the character we wanted this mix to embody.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
Step into the forest, put on your headphones, leave the world behind and sink into natural, calming sounds. You might wander along the paths and lose yourself in the embrace of nature, or sit quietly on a tree stump, listening to the mix while observing the subtle life unfolding around you. This is, in essence, what our name forest.exe is meant to evoke.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
Silvan: My favourite object in my living room is a handmade ceramic piece with an organic, natural design. I discovered it in Krakow last year during my visit to the Unsound Festival.
Sven: Hehe… epic indeed. My favorite object in my living room is a triptych of three Japanese woodblock prints. In the first, several farmers brandishing katanas burst forth with fierce cries. In the second, a lone farmer leaps dramatically over a waterfall, sword in hand. And in the third, a bear flees from the oncoming attackers. The imagery is raw and powerful, yet strangely inspiring. I don’t know the artist or when the pieces were created — but stumbling upon them in an antique shop felt like a stroke of fortune, as if they had been waiting there for me.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
We are both working on new music, though it often takes a lot of time — which can be challenging, since we both work more or less full-time as social workers, and Sven also has children. Still, we meet regularly to create ambient mixes, discuss musical developments, and continue shaping our vision for the label. Through it, we keep releasing new mixes as well as music (EPs) from ourselves and from other artists.
What we love is that this project has been with us for quite some time, and we can move at our own pace — deciding how much energy to put in, or when to slow things down. That way, it never becomes stressful, because we are not chasing success, but rather sharing our musical principles and offering others a fresh listening experience. We are also searching for a spot in the forest where we can record outdoor mixes, letting nature inspire our music even more directly.

Living Room n°88 ~ forest.exe

Errant Journal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant´s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of centers, linearity, roots and dichotomy. Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable. 

Errant Podcast is an extension of Errant Journal and is a way of doing research and building solidarities across networks and disciplines. It allows conversations with contributors about a topic related to an issue of Errant, or something completely separate that is of interest or has urgency. The podcast also features a wide variety of activists, artists, and researchers that have not (yet) contributed to the journal.