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Coming to you all the way live from Bogotá, Colombia, Bomba
Estéreo’s psychedelic cumbia mix creates a space where
transcendent vibes and grooves meet up in one place. According to
the band’s founder Simón Mejía, that was the artistic thrust
behind "Amanecer," the band’s GRAMMY-nominated album which has
received rave reviews from NPR to Rolling Stone and Pitchfork
to Billboard.
Bomba Estéreo is an international touring machine with recent dates
on the world’s biggest stages. The group have toured across 40
countries,four continents and played major festivals
like Glastonbury, Coachella, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza,
Outside Lands, Sonar, Roskilde, Vive Latino, among many others.
“Bomba Estéreo is a night out in a tropical dance club, but I like
how we combined that with Liliana singing about very deep emotions
about spirituality and change,” said the
beat-maker/keyboardist Mejia. “Amanecer is a very luminous album, a
very positive album.”
In a sense Amanecer is a logical progression from Bomba’s already
established track record in fusing the electro-boogie/hiphop
soundtrack of their millennial youth with the tropical folkloric
legacy of their homeland’s elders. From their early success with
their first hit single “Fuego”—a cumbia/house/hiphop/reggae
jam--to the lush dance/pop grooves of 2013’s Elegancia Tropical,
the band has been on an ever-evolving mission of hemispheric musical
convergence.
Amanecer is Bomba’s first album for Sony, an extremely fruitful
collaboration between Mejía, lead singer Liliana “Li” Samuet,
and LA-based veteran producer Ricky Reed (Pitbull, Hason Derulo,
Jesse J). “We liked the idea of working with someone who wasn’t
really involved deeply with Latin music,” said Mejía. Reed’s
collaboration with the band was seamless and organic, providing a new
color and energy to the band’s sound. Li, who grew up inspired by
equal parts of Colombian folklore, hip-hop, Radiohead, and Bjork,
felt Reed “made me do a lot of new things with melody and opened my
mind a lot.”
From the hectic house of the title track to the EDM-meets-champeta
anarchy of “Caderas,” “Soy Yo,” “Voy,” and “Fiesta,”
this sleek new version of Bomba Estéreo ripples with the edgy tension
of staying out to the wee hours on a dance floor. “Fiesta,” the
album’s first single is particularly explosive, with its catchy
deconstruction of carnival in the Caribbean port city of
Barranquilla, a Mardi Gras party second only to Rio’s in
intensity. Marching band drums n’ bass meet Li’s distorted vocals
in a hallucinogenic dance of demonic disguises and party all night
imperatives.
But Amanecer is no one-night stand. Nominated to 2 Latin GRAMMY’S
and 1 GRAMMY, it’s an album that represents the culmination of so
many years of experimentation and wild groove-swapping that has come
to blossom in a strong, authentic international pop sound. It shows
that no matter how much some people are obsessed with borders, these
artificial divisions are unraveling as we speak, and as we listen and
dance to the global-identity sound of Bomba Estereo.
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