Thanks to NPR and their blog Alt.Latino (http://www.npr.org/series/alt-latino/), I have been discovering some amazing and exciting new Spanish, the language, music. It all started with Bomba Estereo, who's video I will include in this blog. They use beats and traditional musical instruments, guitars and the like, along with electronic influences, and a interesting vocal styles to create a unique a beautiful sound, that I'm learning is quite Colombian. This is perfectly timed, as I have tickets to Revolcion Rokkera (http://revolucionrokkera.com/) here in Salinas for this upcoming Saturday, Sep. 10th. While I don't know much about the bands I'm going to see, the concert will give me a chance to dive deeper into the latino musical scene.
I am loving the use of modern musical techonolgies while harping in our cultural traditions, such as electronica meeting salsa or cumba, or even tango like with the band Otros Aires. Much like Bomba Estereo, Systema Solar is a colombian band bringing a modern dance feel to older more traditional dance beats and rhtyms, through the gengre jumping and history within modern songs I am able to discover a vast time span of latino music with just a few albums.
Other bands on my radar are: Miguel Campello, a voice so haunting it'll put hair on your chest and ten make you cry so your tears fall on your now hairy chest (which can be wierd for our lady readers), Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, who fall into dancey rythms like Bomba's, Natalia y Maka, who are like the Meg and Dia of latin america...among others...I also really like what I've heard from DJ Gekko Jones.
Random Factoid: I hate Lane Kiffin, USC looked so one dimensional yesterday, I'm suprised they actually managed to win.
