ALI is an independent artist (Producer and MC) from Bogotá, Colombia. His influences vary from various genres from American rap artists such as Boot Camp Clik to the ballads of Julio Jaramillo, from the ideas of Eloy Alfaro to the poetry of Atahualpa Yupanqui. His trajectory includes 3 international tours (Latinoame-RICA 2013, Mestizo 2014, Sobreviviente 2016) he has been playing in more than 25 cities, including countries like Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, USA, Spain, France and Italy. He has released 4 albums in his soloist career, Rap Conciencia (2008), Palabras del Alma (2012), Mestizo (2014) and Sobreviviente (2016). ALI has been invited to participate in some of the most important national and international festivals including Estereo Picnic, Jamming, Concierto Radionica and SXSW. In 2017 he launched the animated video "Nada Más", receiving very positive reviews by the Colombian press, this song is chosen within the 20 Colombian alternative Great hits of 2017 for Caracol TV, it is also selected within the 50 Best Colombian songs of 2017 for Shock magazine. ALI A.K.A MIND was chosen as the artist Nº1 of the 25 Artists of the 2017 for the Radio Public station 99.1 FM.
Arrabalero is a jazz/punk band founded by Juan Sebastián Aguilar. They are always experimenting with new sounds and re-inventing themselves. Arrabalero has played in Colombia's main music festivals such as Jazz al Parque 2017, Hermoso Ruido 2017, Jazz y Blues la Libélula Dorada 2017, Tropical Garden 2017, No Me Cortes el Bonsái 2017, Sudoku 2018, Deceptacon 2018 and the 10th Year Anniversary of *matik-matik *. Their first album, Gris · Blanco · Negro, was released in November 2016 and their second album, Sudoku, will be released in May 2018.
Audio Lirica Entertainment is an Urban Alternative Music Record Company headquarted in Bogotá D.C., Colombia, which was established in 2002, founded by the Music Record Producer Benny Guevara "Benny B" alongside Giovanni Garcia and Julian Guevara "King David.” The label has worked and believed in the strengthening of alternative music genres during the last 15 years, bringing together the most notable artists of the genre, with a versatile discography with proposals representing different cities and cultures, standing out as one of the most important and relevant independent music labels of Colombia. Some of the artists of Audio Lirica Entertainment include Hety And Zambo, Flaco Fow & Melanina, Noblezza, Largo, Dj Mike Style, Dj Lolita, Largo, Freezy Fromx, Eka, among others. Also some of its most relevant clients are GRAY, Salvador Lab, Productos Ramo S.A., El Freaky Colectivo, Blument Sound and Teta Music among others.
BENT is a Groove Thrash metal band from Bogotá, Colombia started in 2014 by Mad Kat (bass and vocals), K-1 (guitar and vocals) and Daniel Arévalo (drums). The project is born as a way to freely express their influences, musical likes and way of seeing life. Although it is a relatively new band, their members have a long trajectory in bands of similar genres as Narcopsychotic, Greep, Patricio Stiglich Project. The name of the band is BENT, because it is exactly what happens in Colombia. We live in a twisted reality where things work opposite the way they should work. At the end of 2017 BENT releases its first recorded album, named Twisted Metal, in which their believes are embodied in 10 tracks. BENT has played in different bars and events in Bogotá, has performed in various festivals around Colombia and has been opening act for the Argentinian band Carajo.
Black Pop is a Colombian rising independent pop - rock band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2008. The band's lineup has changed two times over its lifespan, with lead vocalist Jorge Iván, Dayro Sánchez (Lead Guitar, Programmation), and Cristian Buitrago being the consistent members. It currently consists of Jorge Iván, Dayro, Cristian and Juan Jo Piedrahita (bass). The band's debut EP, Black Pop (2015), was produced by Juan Da Morales and Mastered by Howie Weinberg (Juanes, 30 Seconds to Mars, Smashing Pumpkins, and others). 'Contigo', their second EP, was released on November 2017. Their 'Contigo Tour 2017' took place in 2017, where the band toured 12 cities in Colombia and 2 in Ecuador. The tour began August 17 in Neiva touring in 12 cities in Colombia and Ecuador, and concluded December 10 in Bogotá. On February 25, 2018, it was announced that Black Pop are working on their first studio album.
Cachicamo is a work that has distilled the essence of the folk music from the eastern region of our country, the oriental plains. Rooted in the culture that comes from a completely agricultural part of the country (specifically cattle raising), this music is born in the everyday of our horse-riding eastern cowboys and farmers. Intensely polyrhythmic, with a heavy nostalgia tainted with the endless horizon of the plains in this region, you can feel horse's gallop, the nervous cattle being rounded up, and the hallucinating songs from thousands of birds. Andrea has taken this music and given it a new direction. She has brought it to a scenario where its folk instruments (harp, cuatro, maracas and bandola llanera) have been replaced with a typical jazz septet (alto and tenor saxophones, trombone, guitar, piano, double bass, and drums) and, therefore, infused it with the intense, creative, and introspective spirit of the jazz tradition. The word "fusion" gets thrown around too easily these days, but this truly brings something new to the table.
Curupira is a sound trip through the traditional colombian peasant music, which fuses with Hindustani music, jazz and rock of the inhabitants of planet earth. With its fantastic cumbia full of polyrhythmic catharsis and psychedelic harmonies. These young multi-instrumentalists, travelers and researchers have been able to connect cultures as they embrace their urban origins and musical traditions of their country. Their musical style and directions can be more easily understood by their name (Curupira, according to the ticuna Aboriginal people, is the protective spirit of the Amazon jungle walking with one foot forward and one back). Curupira's arrival on the scene was so influential that local press acknowledges them as the band that gave birth to the so called "Pioneers of New Colombian Music". Curupira is currently producing her seventh album Siete Perfecto, which will have some collaboration with Argentine singer, Sofía Rei and will be released in 2018.
The Mc ́s, Morfee Quinz, Xar Xup-leX and a producer known as The Beat Soldier formed the hip hop group Delirium Tremenz. The crew of Bogotá spread their verses between instrumentals based on rhytms like the jazz, blues and funk. Currently the crew is preparing all the final details to release the new album “The legacy of the black sheep” which will be released in spring 2018 under the German label “Berlin Dreams entertainment”.
Durazno is a colombian Pop band with 6 years of carreer in the independent national scene. They have been at important scenarios like Rock al Parque and the Opening show for Katy Perry in Bogotá. With 2 albums and 2 singles that have allowed them to make a name in the colombian industry, they are getting ready to release their new upcoming EP, from which comes out their new single "Nuevos Tiempos", available now for streaming.
We all have a story, something to tell. Some are more fortunate to be able to compose songs and make them the best method to get out of the languid and cold nights and face with hope the new days in the sun. That is what this record is about and it was what "El Cachorro" bet him, to free himself from his torments, losses and disappointments to transform them into music. "The days of the sun" was a spontaneous, almost instinctive act of this calm and soulful puppy who decided to lock himself in his house in Sesquilé, Cundinamarca, to exorcise and decant a record of chaotic and revealing experiences. He wandered several nights in the town's canteens, patched endless evenings with the circus clown who had been installed for months, breaking the monotony of the place. Rocío Durcal, Jorge Drexler, Caifanes, Ana Gabriel, Enrique Bunbury passed through his ears. He fed his spirit with aguardiente, he got drunk without fear of a hangover with the friends he invited to record: Tino Núñez (Cinemacinco), Martinika (High Grade), José Gonzales (Toño Barrio), Andrés Jiménez (Brodubers), Andrés Correa, Dani Zabal, Andrés Zea (Bomba Estéreo), Rodrigo Estrada (Writer). In that search and desire to find their own bark, they have armed the 8 songs, or better, the micro sound stories that have a subtle but definite omnipresence and it is the field, the nature that inspires everything. Until a time when he lives in Sesquilé he joined the misfortune of the Cachorro, and generously, in the middle of the drinks, gave him a fragment of a poem written by him: "It was, like the sudden comets of jupiter without measuring word, without saying how much I love you. "From this fortuitous encounter was the instrumental piece" Sudden Comets of Jupiter ", cut 4 on the album. The puppy wanted to sing, period. I wanted to compose and so he did. He wanted to find in the songs a special way of telling oneself. He freed himself of any form or protocol, and he surrendered to the creative act, without pretensions, devoid of ideas to win a Grammy or to be a gold disc for sales; This unforeseen puppy has marked his new territory. Gone is the rancor, the absence, the loneliness. His teeth are sharp with tons of hope to bite life with fever of pain, reborn to sing, as he never had before. Welcome all to the days of the sun. From somewhere in the "Universe".
En Vela is a rock band, founded in 2009 in Bogotá. On 2012 they release their first EP called "Entre Líneas", which allowed them to be invited by the spanish artist Marea to play their concerts in Bogotá and Medellín. On 2014 they start working on their first full length album called "Viajero", released on 2017, thanks to this album's songs they signed as the first international artist of "El Dromedario Records", record label from Navarra - Spain. On 2018 they start the tour #Viajero, playíng on the main cities of Colombia and Spain, where they will tour with the argentinian band "La Beriso". This is how En Vela pretends to be one of the main colombian rock projects with high international projection
LA GRAN RESBALOSA: Afroperuvian experimental music. Based in the effervescent and chaotic city of Bogotá, La Gran Resbalosa has been working since 2015 based on Afro-Peruvian music. He has performed concerts in important Colombian stages, a tour in Germany and they have been winners of awards within which stands out the highest score in auditions to Jazz al Parque 2017, the biggest jazz festival in Colombia in which they had the opportunity to alternate with the legendary Chucho Valdez. They organize an Afro-Peruvian night every two months in the emblematic niche of Colombian experimental music Matik-Matik. In 2017 they published the Ep "Savia manteca" and are next to release their first LP titled "Jarana Surrealista".
La Malasangre is a collaborative music project founded and led by the Colombian musician Fernando Bautista Limas, which aims to create a contemporary sound approach in the Latin American music spectrum, incorporating some of the common elements of progressive sound with Latin folklore, R&B, Pop and Rock music. Two albums have been released under the moniker: "Fiel A Mí" (Chile, 2013) and "Indeleble" (Colombia, 2017). La Malasangre is currently working on pre-production for their upcoming, as-yet-untitled third record with Colombian producer and musician Jona Camacho, tentatively set for release in 2018.
La Revuelta performs a musical style that has been defined as "Marimba Urbana". With its musical roots coming from the Colombia's Pacific Coast traditional rhythms, 2011: Winner First Place Free Category at the Petronio Alvarez Festival (Cali, Colombia). Tour around Belgium, Austria and Portugal during the summer. Circuit of 6 Concerts in the North of Mexico during September. 2008: Represented Colombia at the Ollin Kan de las Culturas en Resistencia in Mexico.
Lianna is one of the most versatile and fresh voices of Colombia. A singer, songwriter and pioneer of mixing this genres and styles in her country, she’s found her sound in the cadence of R&B, Soul and Hip-Hop beats. Her inspiration is rooted in elements of Jazz, Neo-soul, funk, Latin American and caribbean music blended in soulful melodies which she transforms into a solid expressive energy. Her voice is filled with a character that shines in the independent music scene and should be heard.
MARTES (Tuesday in spanish), a day that chance brought rest, submerge in the video game invaded as alter ego👾 Martians invading minds with stories, with dreams, transforming us into the infinite space of another dimension. And a dream shaped a figure from before; a pre-Colombian figure camouflaged between pixels; after astral travel the machine lands in simple times and its complex humanity. The ship departed under the immense gravity of the reddish color reflected in a sea that no longer exists, the blog marks the starting point with "Lo Nuevo" in 2011 several entries written with a crew that today is drawn in pleasant memories, three videos in MTv, FILBo, La Gilberto Alzate, Switchfoot in Bogotá; dates pass and another entry plus another chapter in this space-time rises with "Desespero" that saw the light after exploring the Mexican lands, new crew, new lines on the horizon rise, masked tunjos mixing sounds that invade minds. The ship is still on course.
Monica Giraldo is a woman walking two paths. The first one is taking her deeper and deeper into the heart of Colombian music, surrounded by the power of her native land's traditional rhythms. The other one leads her out and away, following melodies and harmonies from the world. Monica is a singer-songwriter who released two independent albums before earning a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2008 Latin Grammys. Born in Bogota, Colombia, Giraldo studied at Unviersidad de los Andes in her hometown and subsequently studied further at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since her return to Colombia, she recorded several albums: Muy Cerca (Very Close) in 2005 with Producer Felipe Álvarez (Polen Records). Todo da Vueltas (Everything Turns) in 2008 with Producer Mauricio Pantoja and independent lable Codiscos, which earned her a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2008 Latin Grammys. She also released Que venga la vida (Let life come) with Polen Records in 2014, and her new album Bajo el mismo cielo (Under The Same Sky) in 2017, Co-produced by Giraldo, Mauricio Pantoja and Andrés Peláez. She has collaborated with various artists in selected albums, such as Mestizajes with the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in 2010, La Voz de mi Padre (My Father's Voice) in 2011, and in Café Latino and Café del Mundo by Putumayo Records in 2013-2014. Monica was also awarded two Billboard recognitions as a singer-songwriter. Her performing career includes venues in Colombia, Mexico, USA, France, and Japan among others.
M.I.J.O is a Rock band with Progressive tendencies, born as a solo project inside the mind of Colombian drummer, Adolfo Torres. His idea with this project was to compose, produce and play all instruments, but eventually he would find that the music would guide him elsewhere. The first track, spawned another 5 and kept growing with creative support from Alejandro Monroy and Andres Dizeo, turning the aforementioned 6 tracks into 8. M.I.J.O consists of the creative and musical efforts of Adolfo Torres, Alejandro Monroy, Andres Dizeo and Luis Ernesto Walteros. Their sound is described as a progressive mixture of classic and modern styles of Rock.
MULA is a band from Bogotá, Colombia that brings together elements of free-jazz, punk and experimental music to create noise-rock songs that represent the sounds coming out of the heart of the city they live in. They have published 3 studio albums: Resiliente (2017), Sobandero EP (2015), De Carga Pesada y Patada Fina (2013). In this moment they are preparing their fourth studio album.
NONSENSE PREMONITION is a Death Metal band, formed in 2004 by David Jacome (vocals) and Camilo Garcia (former Bassist), in Bogota - Colombia. The band has forged his own sound with influences from Death, Black and Groove metal, with complex, intense, and agressive compositions, besides their killing live performances wich have taken the band to have a strong identity within the extreme metal latinamerican scene. their lyric approach is based on a critic to the human beeing with psicological and metaphisics variables, wich have lead them to enslavement of their own cration, a creation wich drive humans to a conception of a false Free will, intra and interpersonal violence and a system of social beliefs driven by morality that denies an utopian tranquility. In their 15 Years of carrer, The band has had the opportunito to share stafe alongside bands like: Lamb of God (US), Deicide (US), Napalm Death(UK), Krisiun (BRA), Testament (US), Aborted (BEL), Misery Index (US), Decapitated (PL), Max & Igor Cavalera (BRA), Internal Suffering (COL/US/EUR), Malignancy(US), Cerebral Bore (SCO), Anal Penetration (NL), Confronto (BRA) & Job For a Cowboy (US).
PAYAMBÓ from Colombia is a musical group that interwaves the Afro-Colombian traditional music such as Cumbia, Mapale, Puya (among others) with Rock and Dub. In other words is a fusion that has special emphasis in the roots of the Afro Colombian folklore, to this merger we call it "Rocklore". From 2009 and going throught different International Festivals such as Rock al Parque 2016 (Colombia), 26° International Festival of Arts and Culture Quimera 2016 (México), SXSW 2018 (Usa), 4° Festival Noches Latinas 2017 (Paris), Colombia Festival 2017 (Frankfurt) among others, Payambó has become into a strong exponent of the new Colombian music with great international projection. Currently Payambó continues to develop his 4th International Tour "Savage Tour" along Usa, Spain, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Mexico.
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Melodies that mutate, guitars that get distorted and then go back to its natural state (1); these sums up the current nerve of Oh’laville, that appears to add aggressiveness to its sound without losing that intimate intention that has been with them since the beginning (2). Since its second album Anaranjado (2014) - raw, visceral, hurt, poetic and, at the same time, sutil, like a book (3) - Oh’laville has had 3 #1 singles in Colombian radio, 4 Top 10 singles in national charts, and has performed in the following events and venues: Festival Estereo Picnic (2014, 2016), Festival SXSW (2014), Rock Al Parque (2013), National Auditorium of Mexico City alongside Morat (2017), Lunario of Mexico City alongside Izal (2018), Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Theater alongside Vetusta Morla (2018), 4 Colombian Tours and 2 Mexican Tours. They recently published Magia Negra and Primitivos, two singles from their upcoming new album, to be released on February, 2019.
Since October 2012, Mauricio Colmenares, Andres Ángulo and Rodrigo Diaz were three souls with long journeys condemned to understand each other. With devotion at their core, El Revolver pays homage to Rock music made in Latin America. Their intense, dark and sincere lyrics connect with those that seek them out as a bridge to accomplish self-purification and release.
Salidos de la Cripta is a colombian power trio with frenetic chords from beyond the grave, that has put Colombia in the worldwide psychobilly scene. With more than ten years in the scene, Salidos de la Cripta is the most representative psychobilly band in Colombia. Supported by important names in the worldwide Psychobilly scene, such as: Crazy Love Récords (Germany) and Psycho Carnival (Brasil), the band is now promoting they’re latest record "Enemigos de la Humanidad".
Santiago Sandoval is a jazz guitar player based in Bogotá, he is son of the legendary drummer German Sandoval and nephew of pianist Orlando Sandoval. Since little, Santiago showed music skills playing piano and singing. Later he chose electric guitar as his main instrument. He studied at Universidad Sergio Arboleda, where he won various scholarships and talent contests. In 2015, he won a scholarship granted by Fundacion Carolina and went to Barcelona, Spain, to do a Master’s degree in performance. Thorughout his carrer, he has played and toured worldwide with various internationally renowed groups and artists like Antonio Arnedo, Lucia Pulido, Hugo Candelario, Juancho Valencia, Maite Hontele, Ines Kolleritsch, Alvaro Torres, among others. He is one of the most active musicians from the Colombian musical scene.
SKAMPIDA Is a Rock Mesitzo band, formed in Bogotá, Colombia in the beggining of 1999. The music has an innovate and diverse fusión of urban sounds like Ska, punk and polka and latin styles such as cumbia and champeta, including influences like Gypsy and Rockabilly. After 20 years of a uninterruped carrier, 4 LP albums, numerous international compilations, more than 15 videoclips, 6 tours in Europe, South, center and Northamerica, Skampida is working on their first Documentary film celebrating the 20th aniversary, recording on the Autum 2018 European tour.
With a trajectory of more than a decade, Superanfor is recognized as an important and influential group in the hip hop scene of Bogotá. It is characterized by its hardcore sound, the result of the adhesion of elements of other genres such as rock or metal. His lyrics express different sensations, situations, stories told from the depths of the soul, loaded with reality and humanity, the subjective point of view of the artist who manages to infect the audience and make them feel identified with the message. "Santa Barbarie" in 2012 and "Pasión Sin Compasión" in 2016, are the official records, in which the group had the opportunity to work with important internationally recognized musical producers, as well as guest artists of the likes of Planet Asia, Chief Kamachi, Copywrite and great Colombian artists like Lianna, Big Mancilla and Ali aka Mind, among others. His participation in different Mixtapes have allowed his music to be taken to different countries, such as Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and part of the United States. He is currently preparing his new studio album under an independent label. Superanfor are: Santo Niño, Monarca and Pólux.
"The present work is a sample of vocal jazz with intimate accompaniment of piano and percussion, which reflects a deep understanding of the roots of the traditional Colombian music", Jaime Andres Monsalve (Cromos Magazine - Colombia). The essence is Colombian, Brazilian spirit and the jazz language. A set of three elements that make a sweet, rhythmic and enchanting project to listen to. Urpi Barco, is one of the most versatile and active singers in the Colombian musical scene. She has made presentations in Spain, México, Bolivia, Panamá, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Spain, Balearic Islands and Ecuador
Vein is a band from Bogota Colombia influenced by death metal and Groove sounds. Their proposal framed within Art Rock genre, which includes the visual art as an additional element in the live shows, recreating each song of the album through paintings at the same time that the music is played using the action painting technique, the strength of the strokes shows sensations such as energy, motion, and speed. In this way the painting process becomes object of art and fusion with music and technology creates an experience for the Viewer.
