Luis Felber - Attawalpa
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Robert meets Luis Felber, a London based South-American multi-instrumentalist best known as Attawalpa. His meticulous production, melodies and honest lyrics evoke the future as much as the past.
We explore his love of art and growing up with an artist mother Alma Laura de Felber, a prominent Peruvian painter and artist. The Lima-born painter makes colorful, emotionally resonant oil paintings often explore themes of identity, the feminine, and human connection.
Born in Winchester, England, Felber spent his earliest years in Peru and Chile before moving back to Britain at age 7. At 17, he skipped university and began pursuing a career in music, playing guitar with several different bands and co-founding influential club night and record label Young Turks.
Felber actively incorporates his creative roots into his projects. His mother's art has been featured in his work, and he frequently collaborates with his wife, Lena Dunham including on the soundtrack for her film Catherine Called Birdy and by co-creating and scoring the Netflix comedy series Too Much.
Recording and performing under the name Attawalpa (his middle name, after the 16th-century Incan ruler Atahualpa), his albums Experience and Presence are both available now on vinyl and at all streaming platforms.
Follow: @Attawalpa
Visit: https://attawalpa.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening. |
| 0:05.6 | Wherever you are in the world, I am Robert Diamant and this is Talk Art. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to Talk Art. |
| 0:11.9 | Today, I am feeling that I believe in magic. |
| 0:16.7 | And that is because today's guest genuinely has made me feel that over the past kind of four or five years when we've become friends. |
| 0:23.2 | He's someone that kind of reminded me of my childhood self in a kind of fraternal way, maybe, definitely in a kind of best friend's way. |
| 0:31.7 | Every time I'm with him, I feel so comfortable and I can just be myself. |
| 0:35.4 | And I always felt very seen from the minute I met him. |
| 0:38.3 | And we have had some amazing adventures. He's come today in Margate. We've hung out a lot in |
| 0:44.6 | London and we've even been to art fairs together and we sometimes go for lunch together. And also |
| 0:49.5 | his music, he's made two incredible albums. If you haven't heard them yet, you must download them now. |
| 0:55.0 | The first one is called Presence and the latest one was called Experience. And he's currently |
| 1:00.1 | just begun recording his third album, which I have a feeling is going to be a breakthrough record. |
| 1:04.6 | It already sounds really, really exciting. And I just thought now would be the right time |
| 1:09.6 | for us to meet and to celebrate this |
| 1:11.6 | wonderful man who came into my life at a time when I was feeling quite low. And he sort of reminded |
| 1:16.3 | me why I cared about art, why I cared about music, why in my childhood being creative, even just |
| 1:23.2 | as a kid, before you even understand the world, that kind of urge or drive we have to just create |
| 1:29.1 | something, to collaborate, to make a community, to kind of have friends. He just reminded me |
| 1:35.0 | of that whole kind of spirit. So I'm really, really grateful to him, and I'm so excited to introduce |
| 1:40.1 | you to him. You probably already know him because he's been doing a lot of film soundtracks and TV shows and also co-wrote too much with his partner, which was the amazing TV series last |
| 1:50.4 | year on Netflix. So if you haven't seen that as well, I really recommend seeing that. But I would |
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