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The festival La Mar de Músicas farewell with Macaco, Aterciopelados and The Very Best, and says ciao Italy, invited to the 2011 edition (23/07/2010)

La Mar de Músicas says goodbye to its 2010 edition, dedicated to Colombia.

Twelve Colombian groups, a world premiere, ten premieres, seven unique concerts have made this edition one of the most successful of which have been held.

The farewell party "Three Continents meet between Auditorio Parque Torres and the Arab Castle Macaco, Aterciopelados and The Very Best.

Adios Colombia, but ciao Italy, since the trans will be the guest country in the 2011 edition.

Macaco.

It is one of the groups of festival.

Have grown up with La Mar de Músicas, and the festival with them.

Since he first came in 2000 in Brazil Special, Macaco has submitted all of their albums in Cartagena, and would expect to Puerto present, the most successful album has given throughout his career, one of best seller in Spain last year.

Vital, positive, solar, rhythmic, supportive, Mediterranean, earthy and port is the fifth album by the band from Barcelona.

In Puerto Present Macaco gives a twist to his music and appears more Mediterranean than ever, with mandolas sounds of plucked strings instruments, not forgetting the groove, scratch, the rhythmic pulse the mixture.

Puerto Present is the continuation of the career of Macaco, of a career that began in the streets of Barcelona and has earned the highest accolades from the media and international programmers, surrendered to his understanding of music as an exercise in imagination, quality, mestizaje, power and universality.

It's an album that has received the unanimous recognition that we now enjoy in the Sea of Music.

Aterciopelados.

"We are against the cliché of rock songs that all sound the same, the poses and letters. We have been inspired by the whole world music, rock, electronics and especially in American popular music, what which is logical because we grew up listening to. "

In recent years, the restless youth of Latin America and Latinos in northern cousins, has been letting himself be conquered by the new alternative scene that is occurring on the continent.

Like hip hop and alternative rock, but do not want to leave the popular roots and its meaning.

At the head of this new wave are Aterciopelados whose music can sound perfectly in a rock concert, a club or lounge electronic music of salsa.

His new album is a manifesto Gozo Poderoso vibrant melodic moment of Latin alternative music.

World music to a new world.

The collaboration between the singer and guitar, Andrea Echeverri and bassist, arranger and producer Hector Buitrago, both composers have created nine albums since joining in Bogota, Colombia, at the beginning of the nineties as Delia and The amino acids.

They are one of the groups responsible for the Latin alternative rock explosion, and his 17 year career have sailed the seven seas, to pick up a Grammy for Hey in 2007 and one in 2001 by Joy powerful.

Their bravery and lack of prejudice is evident in Rio, his latest album that goes a step further in the "velvet rock, a style that includes low funky, popular rhythms of his country, and Latin hip-hoppers flows, schedules electronic and even Mongolian throat singing ..

The Very Best.

Malawi oral tradition and cosmopolitan electronic pop intersect to form The Very Best, training more luminous and captivating that we can find in any genre today.

Mwamwaya Esau was born in Mzuzu, Malawi, East Africa.

He grew up in the capital, Lilongwe, where he played drums in several bands such as Masaka Band.

During that time he forged a close friendship with the legendary Evison Matafale, who played for years before being assassinated in 2003.

In 1999, Esau settled in London, where he worked in a furniture shop second hand.

The store was on the same street as Radioclit's old studio, and after Etienne Tron buy him a bike, he invited one of their house parties, where he met the other half of Radioclit, Johan Karlberg.

They became friends and started making music together, combining expertise in production and Radioclit style, named by them as "ghettopop" and that he had helped to produce remixes for MIA, Lily Allen, Justin Timberlake, Santogold, Britney Spears or TV On The Radio, with the emotional vocal tone Essau.

Three years later, the project had a name, The Very Best.

With the mixtape "Esau and Radioclit Mwamwaya Are The Very Best" managed to draw media attention worldwide with its mixture of styles without borders.

Without funding or promotion, this collection of remixes on which Essau added his voice reached a figure of more than 300,000 downloads and was praised as Pitchfork media, and Gorilla vs. FADER.

Bear, among others.

But this mixtape was just the beginning.

In the summer of 2009 came, "Warm Heart of Africa", published by the label Moshi Moshi and collaborations with MIA and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.

A luminous disk and multicultural cast will be responsible for the closure of La Mar de Músicas 2010.

Source: Mar de Músicas

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