Auntopia by Aunt Zazà

A dream of a united existence, told by an elusive narrator. Auntopia probably built on top of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, growing straight out of the ashes. A story told by singles in the hope of uniting and forming a tribe that will grow. Five tracks, five names, five voices telling their stories. Not escaping the past but carrying it, carefully layered, as a collective ritual, an ultimate data storage. Strong, resilient, inspired.

AUNT ZAZÀ, a voice within the imaginary future tribe, does not speak as a front-woman; she carries stories that are never just hers. “Auntopia”, her first album, is not a manifesto, more of a map full of unknown territories. Echoes of a lost campfire — or maybe one that hasn’t yet been lit.

“A gentle narrator, as a family member of a collective, where matriarchy is in power. Collective based on equality, mutual empathy, and respect, built around the happiness of the children. — Her creator, Jenny, tells her story. Based in Barcelona, herself an immigrant, she is primarily driven by the idea of a fragile and diverse unity that people with different backgrounds may form, connecting to the values they somehow find universal to share. - I was inspired by the idea of characters, following the same direction in their beliefs, even though they were so different, and i wanted to put that approach into choosing sounds for “Auntopia”, mixing analogue organic drum sounds, flute sounds, and voices with the contrasting psy trance synthesizers and sound design effects.”

The sound of AUNT ZAZÀ emerges at the intersection of pre-industrial rhythmic practices and speculative sonic futures, where each beat reverberates through the body as an ancient response. It addresses a ritual memory embedded in muscle and bone, a technology older than nations and borders.

Working with raw percussion textures, fragmented voices, and synthesized frequencies, AUNT ZAZÀ inhabits the space where local acoustic memories, the sounds of fields, handwork rhythms, and oral traditions converge with raw electronic beats. Her sonic language does not romanticize the past but searches for shared rhythmic technologies that survived colonial fractures and capitalist algorithms, returning to the body its right to discover directly communal modes of being together and. forming a common rhythm.

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