Sofia Kourtesis is a musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She builds house and techno from field recordings and Peruvian cumbia samples, exploring themes of displacement and grief through her work.
House and techno built from field recordings, Peruvian cumbia samples, and the specific grief of leaving home: that's the material Sofia Kourtesis works with. Born in Lima, based in Berlin, she spent years making deep-house for Studio Barnhus before her 2023 debut album Madres turned what could have been a private story (her mother's brain surgery, her own forced conversion therapy as a teenager in Peru) into something dancefloor-sized and genuinely moving. The record's dedication to neurosurgeon Peter Vajkoczy is not a gimmick; it's the whole point. Kourtesis keeps returning to the same question: how much of the world's suffering could be eased by love made loud enough to reach a stranger?
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