Samples of Chaos
Angel Suero is an artist that’s traveling through space and time amid a global pandemic. Twenty one and forced into isolation in his childhood bedroom, Angel utilizes music production as an escape from heavy thoughts and emotions exacerbated by COVID-19.
Angel is a sample based artist, drawing on inspiration from artists through generations and utilizing their sounds and emotions within his own work. At a moment in time where so many of us are socially starved and coping with isolation, Angel has used sampling as both a creative outlet and an opportunity to connect with people and channel various moments in time.
Angel’s production takes us through curiosity, love, joy, and sorrow. The atmosphere that his work creates can be chaotic, mirroring life through a pandemic. In many ways, the sonic worlds that Angel has built through his work are reflective of a more collective desire to escape into new realities and modes of expression.
The body is a KINGDOM.
The body is a dominion ruled over by your BENEVOLENCE or MALICE
LOVE is gonna get you killed.
PRIDE does what it will.
I'm taking big steps away from FEAR.
Jazz is in the air and in here.
I'm laughing. Not at myself no longer.
Not at my PAIN no longer.
To understand you had to be there. But I can tell you I’m a person.
Seedling making greenery his surroundings!
PASSION from POISON makes oceans and its me at sea!
Me, ANGEL.
Me, Still in disbelief!
Maybe your vision decayed by sights of today.
I might take your life while I fight grief, fight strife, fight me.
These chains make for heavy training.
Succumb as a slave to be damned with the rest.
Walls can’t kill you. Homes do.
– Angel Suero for his song “e(MOTION)”
Angel’s platform of choice thus far has been Instagram, as he runs the risk of copyright infringement on other music sharing platforms due to the nature of his work. Often, he will pair his music with prose that highlights his inspiration or emotions. He uses his music and his writings as a way to amplify his own voice, particularly in moments like the pandemic where he was forced into silence.
Sampling is a form of expression and art that can be found in so many different places; in the sounds we hear, the images we see, and in our jumbled up thoughts in moments where we have been forced to look inwards and the outdoors is no longer an option. When we sample various points of emotion and experience, what we are left with is a truly raw and vulnerable montage of the human condition.