Sergio Elmir – DJ//
Sergio Elmir is a journalist/broadcaster who began his career exclusively in Toronto’s Hispanic media before making the leap to Anglophone media, writing about cultural movements in Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico for the likes of Exclaim, Peace and Word magazine. Today, Sergio hosts Toronto’s only Alter-Latino radio show Dos Mundos on CIUT 89.5FM and organizes and promotes concerts featuring some of the world’s top Alternative Latino groups.//
Amadeo Ventura – keyboards, samples//
Amadeo Ventura has been working with the fusion of Latin, Electronic, and Jazz music for over 10 years. He studied piano with Cuban pianist Cesar “Pupi” Pedroso, arranging with trumpeter Jerry Gonzalez, and Afro-Cuban percussion with the National Folklore Group of Cuba. Amadeo has performed and recorded with John Stubblefield, Poncho Sanchez, and Cuba’s Sierra Maestra. He is the leader of Toronto based Latin funk powerhouse Rebel Rhythm.//
Ernesto Ventura – Congas, percussion//
Ernesto Ventura has taught Congas for over 12 years. He studied with Cuban master Jose Luis Quintana “Changuito” and performed with Jerry Gonzalez, Sierra Maestra, Grupo Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, Rebel Rhythm, Mambo Urbano, and Ivana Santilli. //
David Dacks – dub mixing//
David Dacks led dub/jazz/funk ensemble Excalceolators, one of Canada’s pioneering electronic ensembles. He is longstanding dub advocate in Toronto as a DJ, promoter, journalist and an editor at Exclaim magazine. He hosts the genre defying Abstract Index on Toronto’s CIUT FM, which traces connections between international sounds, electronics, funk-fired grooves, free improvisation and dub.//
Influences
Andres Landero, Alfredo Gutierrez, High Tone, Alejo Duran, Zemog El Gallo Bueno, Lisandro Mesa, Celso Piña, Scientist, Sonora Dinamita, Fruko y Sus Tesos, Sonido Martinez, African Head Charge, Marquillos y CIA, NN
Huelepega Sound System would like to introduce you to “doombia” – cumbia’s dissolute cousin. This might not get you on the dancefloor, but it just might get you off the couch.
This music starts with chopped and screwed Colombia-via-Mexican cumbia, with beats slowed down to a spooky, unsettling tempo. Live congas and timbales reinforce the rhythms, while droning keyboards and ricocheting vocal samples open up the sound. Everything gets mixed down in extreme dub. Tempos are subdivided and multiplied – folding the grooves inward and outward, messing with your expectations. The flow rambles and lurches, with dissonance buzzing throughout.
To paraphrase the motto of Putumayo Records, doombia is “music guaranteed to make you feel stoned”.
There are many different tangents in contemporary Latin music, but few explore such dark territory. Huelepega (named after the glue huffers of Monterrey and Caracas) bring an aggressive lack of polish to their sound. But don’t think that the Huelepegistas don’t know how to play – all four have channelled decades of DJing and performing into creating this startling new sound.
Their forthcoming CDR “En Los Ojos De Dios, Todos Somos Ilegales” will be released in March 2009 on Toronto’s acclaimed noise label, Inyrdisk. It’s a natural partnership – Huelepega takes its place alongside such Toronto experimentalists as Women In Tragedy and Disguises to build a greater overstanding of just how alternative Latin music can get. Huelepega Sound System is a reflection and abstraction of the many sonic forces at work in the Latin diaspora in North America.
Huelepega isn’t the music you heard in the resort on your last vacation, on the contrary, Huelepega is music from the gutter, inspired by the dark places of Latin America that the consulate warned you about. Huelepega is for ‘los desplazados, los olvidados y los desaparecidos’.
Veja Entrevista que dei para o Programa “Repertório Independente”, onde eu falo de minha carreira, minha história e apesar de estar bastante gripado, ainda canto algumas canções.
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Veja Entrevista que dei para o Programa “Repertório Independente”, onde eu falo de minha carreira, minha história e apesar de estar bastante gripado, ainda canto algumas canções.
Para ver este e vários outros vídeos meus no youtube, entre no link abaixo:
Buenas noches señor, que bueno que desde las lejanas Canadás se oiga esa música mágica que es la cumbia, en mi myspace tengo unas canciones que se le pueden gustar. Saludos desde la capital mundial de la cumbia rasposa pero sabrosa BOGOTÁ COLOMBIA.
thanks/gracias/merci 4 add new album out & currently touring Europe, North America, & Asia
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