&#8220;Abrir Monte,&#8221; the opening track of Ela Minus&#8217; sophomore album DIA, comes from childhood. Translating to &#8220;open the mountains,&#8221; the phrase references the process of cutting through jungle undergrowth to create a new path. Those words stuck with a young Gabriela Jimeno during a youth in Colombia, and they returned to her in her thirties,…

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