Chaka Schipper (Heilung) — Interview on March 6, 2025 — Transcript
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- 0:04We were not meant to be alone. All this
- 0:06suppression of a colonized mindset. We
- 0:09are not questioning ourself enough of
- 0:11what is happening.
- 0:14Everything is just talk talk talk talk.
- 0:17But how much of the words that you're
- 0:18using are you actually meaning it? Are
- 0:21you doing what you're preaching?
- 0:24But we can talk together. We can share
- 0:27our opinions without pushing anybody
- 0:28down. And that's what I feel that is
- 0:30lacking a lot.
- 0:33So hello uh nice to meet you. Today we
- 0:36are here with Chuck Shipper from Hilong.
- 0:40Thank you so much for your time and
- 0:42willing to dive a little bit more in in
- 0:46me.
- 0:47Yeah. So this is a like a documentary
- 0:49interview. So I would like to start from
- 0:52what are your roots?
- 0:55Wow, that's a a deep question. uh roots.
- 0:59Uh I was raised and born in South
- 1:03America in Ecuador.
- 1:06Uh but I have roots uh standing from uh
- 1:09Chile, the United Kingdom, France,
- 1:16it goes all the way back. So it's been
- 1:18always one connected to somehow in the
- 1:22Chilean side. 1972 my family moved from
- 1:26Chile to Ecuador because there was going
- 1:30to happen a civil war 73 and that's kind
- 1:33of when my family had a contact with
- 1:36with Ecuador and it's actually where I I
- 1:39feel very connected from the Andian
- 1:42region.
- 1:44I was born in the capital in Kito.
- 1:48So yeah, if
- 1:50you are up to going to any of those
- 1:52corners, just hit me up.
- 1:55Before High, were there any projects
- 1:57that you were involved in? Were you
- 1:58studying music or something?
- 2:00Yes, I've been uh
- 2:04since I remember I've been involved
- 2:06somehow in music. My grandpa, he always
- 2:10heard classical music, but my grandma,
- 2:12she was not into it so much into it. So
- 2:15it was very a thing that when he would
- 2:17went to work it was the place for his
- 2:19music and he had big collections of
- 2:21classical music. So at one point I had
- 2:23this dream to be a opera singer
- 2:27from very very
- 2:28picture that
- 2:30I'm not sure how it will be right now
- 2:32but I've been always very interested
- 2:33into that side. So from my grandpa's
- 2:36side I always had this connection to
- 2:38classical music. So there it was also
- 2:39the interest to the violin.
- 2:42I had also a violin. I don't play any of
- 2:44them and I don't sing either but uh I'm
- 2:47talking very young age. Then in the
- 2:49middle I jumped er I went to a school in
- 2:52fourth grade and there I had one of my
- 2:55great friends uh that I still not so
- 2:58much but we still having some context
- 3:01and him and his brother they were very
- 3:03into metal music and
- 3:07there after a big period of trying to
- 3:09figure out which instruments I also
- 3:10chose for example there was a big trip
- 3:13from the school and I also really wanted
- 3:16a guitar and my mom said you can choose
- 3:18choose one. You cannot go to both. And
- 3:21then I actually chose the guitar. Then I
- 3:23figure out it's also not kind of my
- 3:24instrument. So it's been a big journey
- 3:27through different instruments even
- 3:28though I was always hitting some pots in
- 3:31the kitchen from very young age. So that
- 3:33was always kind of the percuss
- 3:35percussive side very involved. Um
- 3:39and then in that period also I've been
- 3:43researching a lot of my roots in the
- 3:46Nordic site uh in the Celtic side from
- 3:50the side of my grandpa
- 3:53and then I figured out that there was
- 3:54also a lot of Scottish and the Kelts and
- 3:57then I dived into the Scottish backpipes
- 3:59also
- 4:02that it's been quite a journey because
- 4:04it's all this connection to the cultural
- 4:06side all is reclaiming my roots to
- 4:09understand where I'm coming from and
- 4:14to play that kind of music.
- 4:18Then in school, I jumped into the drums
- 4:21with this friend that I was calling
- 4:23before. He was knitting a drummer and
- 4:24was like, "Let's build a band." It was
- 4:25like, "Yeah, of course." That was like
- 4:26in fourth grade. And then after that
- 4:31I really established my my musical
- 4:34aspect in more what is the drums. Then
- 4:37thanks to my the support of my family
- 4:40and then my family moved when I call my
- 4:43family is my close family they moved to
- 4:45Chile
- 4:47and then I got a scholarship uh to study
- 4:50actually music jazz performance and
- 4:55music production.
- 4:57So I stayed uh in Ecuador
- 5:01studying that and then after my studies
- 5:04in that I went to
- 5:07Spain. I also got there some scholarship
- 5:11for diving much more in I couldn't
- 5:13understand the how it should work this
- 5:16thing of artists making money and making
- 5:18a living of it. So then I dived into
- 5:21music business global entertainment and
- 5:23music business. I made a master in that
- 5:26and
- 5:28then I went back to Ecuador. I was
- 5:30teaching there at the university. It's
- 5:32been as you can hear back and forward
- 5:34constantly. Uh but always involved in
- 5:37the musical side. I also remember when I
- 5:39was a teenager working in a radio
- 5:41station
- 5:43making the controls and then the guy
- 5:45didn't came. So I was the person putting
- 5:48the music and talking and so it's always
- 5:50kind of involved in all the musical
- 5:53aspect.
- 5:54Um and then in Ecuador I was like why
- 5:59not trying some more and then is when I
- 6:02buy in that period of time I bought one
- 6:06flight ticket to
- 6:08to Europe and there is kind of where
- 6:12that journey started
- 6:15to where I am right now. Yeah, I was
- 6:17amazed actually uh when I checked your
- 6:19biography um on some podcast um I guess
- 6:24it was Nordic mythology podcast uh you
- 6:27met your partner and you ended up in uh
- 6:31where in Denmark.
- 6:32Yes. and and from all this education
- 6:35from all this uh like music business and
- 6:38whatn not you ended up basically looking
- 6:40for work for a long time and yes
- 6:44actually it's
- 6:46what I kind of say is yes you can go and
- 6:49study
- 6:51and it gives you a lot
- 6:53but it's everything how you implemented
- 6:55in your life and what I feel is all the
- 6:59contacts and the kind of community that
- 7:02you build there that it makes you feel
- 7:04so good. And those are the people that
- 7:06then maybe in the future you're going to
- 7:09collaborate and work together if they
- 7:11continue working in the music industry.
- 7:14But how many people goes to a studies
- 7:16and then they're sitting at home not
- 7:18knowing just believing because you have
- 7:20that paper you're going to have
- 7:22something. It's everything by our own
- 7:24work and where I'm right now it didn't
- 7:26was from one day to another.
- 7:29I went working through different
- 7:30aspects,
- 7:32making sandwiches, cleaning toilets and
- 7:37moving boxes in a warehouse.
- 7:40And then at one point, a really good
- 7:42friend of of all of us,
- 7:45Alex Oaso, he gave me a call after one
- 7:47year that I was like, I need to figure
- 7:50out how to to make a living
- 7:53in Denmark. And I ended up in Denmark
- 7:56because of my partner because she's
- 7:58Danish. And
- 8:02and in that period of of the year, I was
- 8:06working and everything what I could and
- 8:08trying to figure out also how to dive in
- 8:10into the the place that I want to be.
- 8:14And sometimes we have to do things but
- 8:16if you have your vision clear or maybe a
- 8:20purpose for that moment to understand
- 8:23where you want to be it's everything a
- 8:25learning process and we learn from
- 8:27everything the problem is when we stay
- 8:29in something stuck that is not what we
- 8:31like and that's where it starts
- 8:34our root I call it always internal root
- 8:39that there is when those blocks starts
- 8:40and then is when anxious stress
- 8:44and all these feelings pop out because
- 8:46of these blocks because you're basically
- 8:47doing not what you love. So when you see
- 8:49that is a transition and then actually
- 8:51Alex called me and it was like hey I'm
- 8:54with this band and we need a they're
- 8:56looking for a driver and I was like what
- 8:58is it? I didn't even had any idea of
- 9:00what it was and what was going on.
- 9:04Yeah. And that was also quite a trip.
- 9:06And then I have in my door Maria and and
- 9:09Kristoff good friends of the project
- 9:11that I'm part of now. erh deliver me a
- 9:14car with
- 9:16spears and shields and stuff that I was
- 9:18like, "Okay, what the where what is all
- 9:22this?
- 9:22Why are you scared to drive such a car?"
- 9:24Yeah. I was like, and it was funny. Then
- 9:25I had some cool stories in the middle
- 9:27like being stopped by the German police,
- 9:30me having a
- 9:33French passport, driving a Danish car
- 9:36with weird weapons inside. It was quite
- 9:40a quite a journey. What did you talk to?
- 9:44Yeah, I I it was funny though because it
- 9:47was like
- 9:50they asked you do you have weapons like
- 9:51yes but I they tell me not to lie. So
- 9:55then I shouldn't lie but then it was
- 9:57this thing of like how do I explain him
- 10:00and then it was like yeah but it's for a
- 10:02performance and we use it in a
- 10:03theatrical matter but is a
- 10:05representation from historical findings
- 10:08etc. So it was a quite a thing and then
- 10:11thankfully it was another police officer
- 10:13there and she said and it's like yeah
- 10:16actually we can see I' I've heard of
- 10:18this project and I was like okay
- 10:20interesting and it was in the beginnings
- 10:22that was I think 2018
- 10:27somewhere there. So
- 10:32that was kind of the beginning of where
- 10:35everything started. And it was just one
- 10:37job that I had as a driver. And of
- 10:40course, as I'm a
- 10:43person that
- 10:45wants to keep going into things to reach
- 10:49maybe that point that I sometimes I'm
- 10:51not even conscious, but my
- 10:55my subconscious or my
- 10:58old vibration kind of knows where I have
- 11:00to go and sometimes I just let it be. So
- 11:05I started doing that. for me was very
- 11:07normal to do in Ecuador in the other
- 11:09projects that I had down there
- 11:13cuz there you don't have tour managers,
- 11:14manager, stage and all these beautiful
- 11:17things that we have these days or that
- 11:19you can find in other places there you
- 11:21do it yourself of course or you have
- 11:23them but you it's a big expense and for
- 11:25the amount of income that you get as a
- 11:27musician down there is quite different.
- 11:29So then I started doing a lot of things
- 11:32that I saw on stage
- 11:34and then Christopha called me like
- 11:39I need you to do this in Glasgow and
- 11:42then we figure out I need to talk to you
- 11:45in Kuberneting in that moment when he
- 11:47called me I was like almost in
- 11:48my pants but thinking like ah you're
- 11:50doing things that you shouldn't you were
- 11:52hired just as a driver but that's not
- 11:54what happened. it was more like please
- 11:56do it again and that's how I ended up
- 12:00making all these other things for the
- 12:02project and then after a period of time
- 12:05then I jumped where I am right now
- 12:07playing the drums and sharing and
- 12:10building my altar with a big group of
- 12:14amazing people.
- 12:16So what uh kind of drums you play in
- 12:18Hilong? I understand it's your native
- 12:22instruments.
- 12:23Yeah.
- 12:25um native we can call it. Uh what I
- 12:28build as I mentioned before is I
- 12:31what I mentioned before is that I do an
- 12:33uh I build an altar
- 12:36representing
- 12:39a lot of things. Everything the whole
- 12:41image that I'm trying to pull out is
- 12:43that I'm not alone here
- 12:46and there's been a lot of people
- 12:48fighting and protecting and they still
- 12:51do their territories, their land, their
- 12:53traditions.
- 12:55And as I grew up and was born in
- 12:58Ecuador, um all my things that I have up
- 13:01there or most of them if not their
- 13:03presence or a quite deep collaboration
- 13:07with someone like I have one drum from a
- 13:10great drum builder that he's from
- 13:13Mexico, but then all the rest of my my
- 13:15set is
- 13:18built and made by people in Ecuador. And
- 13:21the type of drums is we could say is an
- 13:25Andian uh bombo and I call it Andian
- 13:29because the Andian region is quite big
- 13:31and the instrument has been found in and
- 13:34still used in a lot of these places. Uh
- 13:37that is a basically a big cylindric
- 13:40wooden thing with two skins.
- 13:45Uh so I use different skins, different
- 13:47sizes.
- 13:49Erh and then I have different elements
- 13:52that also represents
- 13:55different aspects from where I come from
- 13:58and also the different journeys that I
- 14:00have been through
- 14:03and trying to apply uh it's weird to use
- 14:07the traditional word but let's say the
- 14:09the common way of using instruments for
- 14:12example um I have an amazing
- 14:18set of symbols made by Katung. The
- 14:21Hatung is also a a company from Ecuador
- 14:25that they is the first symbol company
- 14:28and they created my own symbols
- 14:30according to some different sounds that
- 14:32I wanted weights and I wanted some place
- 14:34that I'm just tired that they are
- 14:36breaking constantly.
- 14:38So
- 14:40yeah, it's a great project. So that we
- 14:44it took us some months to put together,
- 14:47but it happened and they're great. You
- 14:50can check them out. They also have some
- 14:52other symbols that they sell around. And
- 14:54then Pablo Kacho that he's a really good
- 14:58friend and also one of the drum builders
- 15:00that I work with.
- 15:02We have also a big passion for ancient
- 15:05or let's say prehispanic karamic
- 15:08instruments that we are trying to bring
- 15:11alive and that's also my other passion a
- 15:14part of drums is all this
- 15:18the sounds from
- 15:21old times and there are some findings of
- 15:24some whistles and
- 15:26I use also some of them on stage
- 15:29so you have some ancient instruments
- 15:31also also So yeah, yeah, I have some
- 15:33like actual in
- 15:34Yeah. Yeah. Quite some Yeah. Yeah. There
- 15:36are some old stuff on stage also.
- 15:41I know that you not doing some like
- 15:45music drumming. You have a lot of going
- 15:47on in the philosophical side on your
- 15:50beliefs and uh um how you see the world.
- 15:53Can you tell a little bit um about that?
- 15:56I've been in Ecuador. There is still a
- 15:58lot of
- 16:01First Nations
- 16:04communities and people that still live
- 16:08with uh their traditions. And from very
- 16:12young age, I've been very interested and
- 16:14connected also to to a lot of different
- 16:17aspects of
- 16:20these different ways of healing or what
- 16:22actually healing is and what actually
- 16:25being alive is or what is the dream
- 16:28world etc. A lot of of these subjects.
- 16:31Um so there in the process uh together
- 16:35with my partner we created vidaya
- 16:37community and journeys that is basically
- 16:40a space where people can join in a very
- 16:43exclusive way when I mean exclusive
- 16:47inclusive
- 16:49inclusive
- 16:50inclusive but that is exclusive
- 16:53I mean that is just for very few people
- 16:55because we have we want to have
- 16:58connections and it's not this common
- 17:01retreat street that you have 30 40 50
- 17:03hundreds of people uh joining the space
- 17:06and then you can actually not even
- 17:07interact with each other and the idea is
- 17:09this
- 17:11the healing part through community I
- 17:13really believe that
- 17:15that's one of the biggest problems is
- 17:17that this connection that we have to
- 17:20ourself to nature we are nature
- 17:23and that's what's ripping everything
- 17:25apart and this being alone this
- 17:27loneliness is what is we were not meant
- 17:29to be alone and all this uh suppression
- 17:33of a colonized mindset of saying this is
- 17:37what it has to be this is we are not
- 17:38questioning ourself enough of what is
- 17:40happening and why of things why am I
- 17:43doing this why am I supposed to do this
- 17:47why is it normal to live alone in four
- 17:50walls
- 17:52all all these kind of of things
- 17:55and that's when vidaya was was born to
- 17:59open face to people that have been
- 18:02working uh together for a long of years
- 18:06that they share also a different type of
- 18:09medicines
- 18:12they have been carrying it through
- 18:13millennials that that's also a thing
- 18:14that I've been seeing a huge trend of
- 18:17people that just
- 18:21I know that they may be good intentions
- 18:24but they just grab any medicine because
- 18:26they felt good that moment or They want
- 18:30to share it more to the world. But we
- 18:33have to stay in what's ours and it's
- 18:36very important to understand that I'm
- 18:39from Ecuador, but I don't own the
- 18:41medicine. I don't I don't serve it. It's
- 18:43it's a thing that it doesn't belong to
- 18:46me. It's not in my lineage of people and
- 18:49it doesn't even cross to my head to do
- 18:51something like that. So we open a space
- 18:55where
- 18:57me my partner and then we open we share
- 19:01together spaces with first nations from
- 19:03different territories from Ecuador for
- 19:05now we have been also thinking to maybe
- 19:07make it an open spaces in other places
- 19:09with people that's carries their own
- 19:12medicine
- 19:16and that's yeah we're making it once a
- 19:18year the next one is going to be 2026
- 19:23And yeah, I'm probably going to give you
- 19:25all the links and stuff that you can
- 19:26check there
- 19:28on screen. Yeah.
- 19:29Yeah. But that's also connected. So I
- 19:31share what where I come in is this
- 19:33holding space just opening doors uh in
- 19:36the middle of nature in a beautiful
- 19:38space putting people together and then I
- 19:41open also to things that I share in my
- 19:46other project that is called Arpy.
- 19:49um that this one is basically
- 19:52things that has been helping me and
- 19:54supporting myself in my journey that I
- 19:56was like why not opening it more for
- 19:59other people.
- 20:02So it's a it's a snowball that is
- 20:05growing but it also melts down and
- 20:07sometimes it's like this didn't really
- 20:09work and then we figure out and there we
- 20:11have this Suruna drum therapy circles
- 20:15that you were yesterday part of it. um
- 20:18where I also try to invite other people
- 20:20in. So we share all of us. It's not just
- 20:26a single person's thoughts or ways of of
- 20:31healing. One of the most important is
- 20:33being community and actually opening
- 20:35yourself and understanding that you are
- 20:36not alone. That we all are struggling
- 20:38somehow.
- 20:40But I always believe that there is a
- 20:42toolbox. We all all have a toolbox
- 20:46that we can share of different tools
- 20:48between each other because we've been in
- 20:50different states all of us and maybe
- 20:52somebody already went through what
- 20:54you're going right now. And that's the
- 20:56part just opening your mouth heals. We
- 21:01always try to find something outside
- 21:05to make us feel better. And that's what
- 21:08I also call the spiritual bypassing
- 21:11that happens a lot is like researching
- 21:13researching and looking out there when
- 21:15you're actually just putting a lit on
- 21:18the real issue. I would say that uh
- 21:22having valid being validated from
- 21:24outside it's not going to work uh
- 21:27because as soon as somebody or something
- 21:30that validates you disappears again
- 21:33meeting true self you're alone like and
- 21:37unless we would be able to be sort of
- 21:43content and calm with ourselves it's
- 21:47never going to stay. Yeah.
- 21:51Yeah. As I there's a lot of talking and
- 21:54that's also one of the biggest issues.
- 21:57Everything is just talk talk talk talk
- 21:58talk talk talk. But how much of the
- 22:00words that you're using and you're
- 22:02saying are you actually meaning it or
- 22:05are you walking with the words? Are you
- 22:08doing what you're preaching?
- 22:10And you can see in the world where we
- 22:12are right now, it's constant talk and
- 22:15push down others and
- 22:19so you gain more power and more egos and
- 22:23more things that that's not the way. The
- 22:26way is staying community and remembering
- 22:29that we come
- 22:32and we are nature and that disconnection
- 22:34is what's ripping apart everything.
- 22:37They're not taking care of all what
- 22:40nature is giving us.
- 22:41Would you like to tell some more about
- 22:44what's going to do and especially like
- 22:46Hiatus is coming. Uh any plans for that?
- 22:50Which plans? uh after after high concern
- 22:53uh okay this thing of that's actually I
- 22:56try to live very in the present moment
- 22:59and it's a thing that I very related to
- 23:02uh plans keep sharing keep spreading
- 23:06seeds of awareness uh so we continue
- 23:10questioning ourself
- 23:13is it truly usually me or is something
- 23:17imposed by somebody else or any other
- 23:19tradition or whatever it comes comes
- 23:21from
- 23:23and spreading seeds of awareness that
- 23:27there's been people out there that's
- 23:29been always there
- 23:32and they are still here.
- 23:34traditions,
- 23:39medicines,
- 23:42ways of living and there's
- 23:46ways of
- 23:49seeing that and a lot of the the things
- 23:52that I'm also trying to to share
- 23:56constantly is let's appreciate more
- 23:59instead of appropriate.
- 24:02Others don't have the privilege of just
- 24:04traveling around.
- 24:06And what I've seen a lot is people
- 24:09travel to one point, they see something
- 24:12that they feel that they have to share
- 24:13it to the world and then they take it
- 24:15from it. But they actually not walking
- 24:18with the words.
- 24:20They're just making profit out of it and
- 24:23not even making a
- 24:26repro or how do you say that? that is
- 24:29giving and receiving and it's a it's a
- 24:32circle of thing. It's just we take it
- 24:33out and then that was it.
- 24:37The one plan that I know that is
- 24:38happening is they're following some
- 24:41tours. There's some musical projects
- 24:42that are quite interesting that I know
- 24:44that's
- 24:46yeah some fun stuff that at one point
- 24:49you you will hear about them. And then
- 24:53also Vidaya the retreat that is
- 24:56happening in 2026
- 24:58where it's already confirmed that we're
- 25:00working with the same titas and mamas
- 25:05that we are actually working now with a
- 25:08beautiful organization that is
- 25:09protecting the a 2% of a forest in in
- 25:13Ecuador that all the rest has been
- 25:16ripped down and is the only one the only
- 25:18forest from the Pacific. So, we excited
- 25:21about continue spreading the word that
- 25:24there's
- 25:26there's good things happening out there.
- 25:27It's not everything
- 25:31as you probably see constantly. Turn off
- 25:34your phones, turn off your TVs, and get
- 25:37out. Get out and enjoy
- 25:41the people that you love and enjoy
- 25:43nature.
- 25:45Nature will always prevail.
- 25:48and RP also my project
- 25:53as I mentioned before is kind of a
- 25:54snowball that it also melts in the
- 25:56process and it's a constant learning but
- 25:59that's what I love to share
- 26:02working one-on-one with people to make a
- 26:04bigger collective healing
- 26:07the Suruna circles I'm going to be now
- 26:09in Birka tattoo festival I got invited
- 26:12there by them it's going to be very nice
- 26:15I'm sharing there three spaces on the
- 26:18three days. So, I'm looking so much
- 26:21forward. That's what I love. I love to
- 26:22be with people, like-minded people that
- 26:24we're walking or maybe not to the same
- 26:27direction, but we can talk together. We
- 26:30can share our opinions without pushing
- 26:32anybody down. And that's what I feel
- 26:34that is lacking a lot. the side of
- 26:36respect and love and standing with the
- 26:40roots and understanding a little bit
- 26:43more
- 26:45of who we are as human beings
- 26:50and not just a simple robot doing just
- 26:53because somebody told us.
- 26:56So yeah, it's quite a long answer for a
- 26:59lot of things because exact project I
- 27:01think I mentioned a a few dates but I'm
- 27:04trying to live as much as I can in the
- 27:06present moment
- 27:08and for example now we are on tour and
- 27:10if I have like everything scheduled I
- 27:12will be a little bit all over the place
- 27:14maybe hanging out probably also with Kai
- 27:17in some woods around here.
- 27:20So yeah, it's
- 27:22quite a question
- 27:23actually. Very interesting answer and a
- 27:27lot of insights about yourself. Thank
- 27:29you so much for this interview and uh
- 27:32good luck with the tour.
- 27:33Thank you so much. Thank you for your
- 27:35time and thank you for opening spaces
- 27:38that is not just about one specific
- 27:40thing that is more open to who we are
- 27:45and I think that the world needs more
- 27:47about that hearing that there are
- 27:49different opinions and it's okay to have
- 27:51them with respect and love.
- 27:55Thank you so much. Appreciate I have to
- 27:58practice.
- 28:03[Music]
- 28:10Sy.
- 28:13[Music]
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