Martin Perna, Adrian Quesada (ringleaders). Ocote family includes Todd Simon, Chico Mann aka Marcos García, John Speice, Jason Murdy, Carmelo Torres, Arturo Eddie Torres, JJ Richards, Joe Woullard, Courtney Morris, Rich Panta, and more.
Influences
Victor Jara, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Jorge Ben, Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes, Chavela Vargas, Inti-Illimani, Susana Baca, Cymande, Donald Byrd
Sounds Like
OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS/ADRIAN QUESADA Coconut Rock (out June 23rd, 2009)
feat. Chico Mann, Victor Axelrod (Antibalas), Tita Lima, Todd Simon (Lions, Breakestra, Dakah, Connie Price), and friends!
BUY IT HERE!!!
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OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS/ADRIAN QUESADA La Reja/Cariño 12" VINYL (OUT DEC. 9th, 2008)
feat. remixes by Nickodemus and Chico Mann! BUY IT HERE!!! ""La Reja" is a gorgeous track...incredible piece of music...."Carino" will get you more curious about the album....Recommended" - Turntable Lab.com
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OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS/ADRIAN QUESADA The Alchemist Manifesto BUY IT HERE!!!
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Ocote Soul Sounds/AQ-El Nino y el Sol full length
"A grand adventure in sound" - The Austin Chronicle
"Rare and delicate, tripped out and hazy" - The Fader
"The most invigorating thing to come out of ESL in a long time....Quite Stunning." - Popmatters.com
"Two sides of laid back heat..This isn't the purple faced sax player funk 45 you're sick of, it's the mojito sippin, Don Juan Stuff" - Turntablelab.com
“Sounding like a sun kissed Brazilian soundtrack from the ‘70s, this tasty afro beat collaboration between two of the genres biggest players has funk horns aplenty and chilled vibes throughout. For fans of Fela Kuti, Gang Starr and everyone in between.”
Dazed & Confused on ‘El Nino Y El Sol’
Adrian Quesada and Martin Perna, respective bandleaders of famed ensembles Grupo Fantasma and Antibalas, once again unite under the Ocote Soul Sounds banner for their new long player, ‘Coconut Rock’.
The third album to be released by Ocote Soul Sounds seamlessly entwines the grit and funk of the gridlocked NYC streets, with the voices and rhythms of the dusty lanes of Latin America.
This time around finds the duo loosened up and slipping effortlessly into their trademark psychedelic afro-latin funk groove. From the Latin breakbeat rhythms of album lead-off ‘The Revolt of the Cockroach People’ to the cumbia bounce of ‘Tu Fin, Mi Comienzo’ to the easy guitar soundscapes of ‘Vendendo Saude e Fe’ featuring Brazilian songstress Tita Lima, ‘Coconut Rock’ is the third chapter in Ocote Soul Sounds’ unparalleled journey through sonic realms beyond!
The duo of Perna and Quesada developed their musical paths in eerily similar parallel universes. Though Quesada grew up in the Texas border-town of Laredo, and Perna came up in Philadelphia (later New York), both musicians straddled borders literally and artistically. Growing up on hip hop and the jazz and funk it was built on; both taught themselves to play multiple instruments; both had founded game-changing, booty-shaking big bands; and both were deeply moved by a powerful spirit of social and political activism, the spirit that was to become Ocote.
A chance biodiesel breakdown, which left Martin stranded in Austin, led to the two playing around with some song ideas together, hitting the studio and ultimately resulted in their 2005 debut ‘El Nino Y El Sol’. Four years and three albums down the line, they have evolved into a seven-piece live outfit and continue to draw inspiration from a number of unusual sources: Cuban children’s rhymes about the boogyman providing the basis for ‘El Diablo Y El Ñau Ñau’, while ‘Prince of Peace’ is all about “a messiah coming back to town looking like Sun Ra, with this giant raucous marching band strutting down the streets”…quite!
Outside of music, Martin is dedicated to the pursuit of alchemy and utopian projects such as biodiesel fuels, community art projects, and superadobe architecture. One recent work is BLACKOUT!, a coloring book.
For more information about the music or other Ocote Soul Media projects, please visit our website.
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That's right guys im back after a few months out but it was worth the wait as i bringing you nothing but love, blessings and all the deepest darkest beats to make you shake your body all night long.
Clandestino (Mixed by Max Pela) (Go to MySpace Homepage for DOWNLOAD)
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