In the next posts i´ll be talking about new latin american music, in the last years there has been a real explosion of bands, projects, labels, netlabels, blogs and i really feel that now more than ever latin independent music has taken a nice turn and there are quite a handful number of interesting projects to talk about and take a good and deep listening to...
I´m going to start with 2 of my favorite bands so far, both curiously from the country that has been in everybody´s mouth these days, Chile...a mix of talent, experience, energy, youth and great musical taste can never go wrong to a musical project and the first example its Fakuta, an electro pop musician/composer/producer/label manager girl from Santiago de Chile...
Fakuta its all about dream pop landscapes, with beautiful vocal arrangements and great structured melodies giving us an elegant outcome when she puts all of this elements together, an example would be "Las partes" track featured on her myspace www.myspace.com/musicafakuta an overwhelming pop piece with a contrasting aesthetic between lyrics and music, where you can feel the strength of the melody breaking inside the post apocalyptic lyrics...
When performing live Fakuta is joined by her vocal girls choir The Laura Palmers giving to the live act a lot of presence and personality which you can percieve in the next video...
If there is something i would like to make emphasis about these projects its the artistry and stage presence they have, there are no pretentions or false poses, they are who they are and they are honest about it, something most musicians/artists keep forgetting nowadays...
Another astonishing proposal would be Dejaneiros an art-pop psychodelia project formed by Milton Mahan and Pablo Muñoz also from Chile, i have to confess that the first time i heard this band my jaw fell to the ground by the impressive and enormous sound they accomplished, both sound engineers and part of another musical projects they made at least from my point of view one of the best independent records of 2009 with multilayered synths and spacial melodies
Plateado its one huge record.
They have a strong epic sound but somehow they managed to put also a lot of feeling into it, a melodramatic soundtrack for modern times...i really recommend Los Caribes track to have a big picture of what this project its all about...check out this great video for they single Montreal
de janeiros - montreal from al unisono on Vimeo.
You can find and download for free these and other really interesting music projects in Fakuta´s label Michita Rex here:http://www.michitarex.com/
See you next week...
