GÓTIKO TROPIKAL | Natalia Escobar, Argenis Brito & Jao Moon

GÓTIKO TROPIKAL is a space for listening to artists from Abya Yala (Latin America) and its diaspora, celebrating those who move between worlds, darkness, and tropical sensuality. Each episode features music, poetry, and stories, inviting guests to share the songs that shaped their journey, their connection to Abya Yala today, and the personal or political stories behind their work.

Born from the Gótico Tropical movement—a Colombian cultural aesthetic that emerged in Cali in the 1970s—the series blends Gothic horror with Latin American realities such as violence, exploitation, and postcolonial decay. Across film, literature, and visual art, figures such as Andrés Caicedo, Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo, and Karen Lamassonne developed a dark, critical language to reveal the sinister undercurrents of the tropics and experiences of generational dislocation, dismantling romanticized and exoticized portrayals of Latin America.

Inspired by this legacy, GÓTIKO TROPIKAL reclaims the grotesque and the decadent as tools for storytelling, channeling the hauntings of history into new sonic narratives.