Author: Cristian Herrera Photo Credit: Rossur When someone who is not from Colombia tells you about some of Medellín’s best-known attractions, they are likely to mention J Balvin, Maluma, the “guaro” (aguardiente), Bandeja Paisa, or the Feria de las Flores with its famous silletero parade. The silleteros have been a tradition in Antioquia since 1957, when the first handful of peasants paraded through the city of Medellín with a wooden chair on their backs, decorated with the most beautiful variety of flowers that sprout daily from the mountainous entrails of the department of Antioquia. All of this is happening in Santa Elena, one of the five districts of the so-called ‘city of eternal spring’. It is located one hour east of Medellín. Its landscape seduces from the outset: a humid tropical climate with mountain influence, where the greenery of its forests harmonises with the mystical mist that envelops streams, birdsong and colourful silletero farms. In the heart of Santa Elena there is also a small region where flowers and foliage become living frames from which cables of modular synthesizers, MPCs, field recorders and pedals of different kinds emerge. A neighbourhood of elves and sound workers are responsible for this interweaving
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