Lechuga Zafiro - Desde los Oídos de un Sapo
Lechuga Zafiro’s album Desde los Oídos de un Sapo is a vital contribution to the growing conversation around sound, ecology, and the dissolution of anthropocentric perspectives in music. The Uruguayan producer’s debut album—crafted from field recordings collected across Uruguay, El Salvador, Chile, China, Argentina, and Portugal—is an atmospheric meditation on creating rhythmic bridges between the human, synthetic, and animal. It is music that doesn’t simply reflect the non-human world but listens to it, collaborates with it, and creates within it . The album’s seven tracks operate as a kind of sonic kinship. Toads, sea lions, birds, water, and raw materials like metal and wood share space with cutting-edge electronic rhythms. Rather than merely sampling these presences, Zafiro is sensitive to their agency.
In “Rana Cósmica,” amphibian croaks ripple like cosmic signals, intertwined with fractured percussion that feels both primal and futuristic. On “Vientos de Madera,” wind-like tones meld with the abrasive hum of manipulated plastics, creating a haunting atmosphere of organic and synthetic that collapses the boundaries between the two. Zafiro invites us to ask questions such as “How do forest green frogs process sound?”