Artist: Mitú
Album: Potro
Release Date: November 10th, 2012
Reviewer: jf yanqui rivera. KSTO St. Olaf College Radio - World Music Director.
Review Date: January 20, 2013
If you thought that Bomba Estereo, the colombian based electronic cumbia band, took the concept of traditional music to a next level in terms of innovation, creativity, and mass audience acceptance, then wait until you listen Mitú. Inspired on a trip to the jungle, Julian Salazar (the guitarist for Bomba Estereo) looked for the way to emulate the sounds of nature through synths and percussion, and yes... together with the percussionist Franklin Tejedor–best known as “Lamparita”–he found it, and it even has a name: Techno de Palenque.
Mitú takes its name from a small town located in South Eastern Colombia in the Amazon basin, and it is a musical project that is commanded with the vision of creating dance music through the combination of techno and tribal rhythms from the Palenque Afro-Colombian culture. In the first album of this phenomenal duo, Potro, they play with the psychedelic beats of analog synthesizers and rhythm machines combined with the power and ‘sabor’ of the tambor alegre that will turn the party on and will put to dance whoever listen their music live.
By combining traditional Palenque and other indigenous rhythms, and Afro-Colombian grooves with contemporary electronic music, Mitú has obtained a bracing and beguiling style that takes local music to a global realm. In fact, the latest album release Potro, has been able to drag the attention of the electronic music fans because it has an appealing touch of Acid House, but keeps the Afro essence and energy of the people in San Bacilio de Palenque; thus, this extremely original music reflects a work charged of folklore and cultural identity.
The ten-track album that is part of the first musical production of Mitú, reflects Colombia’s African heritage mixed with a wave of futurism that contribute to the growing electronic music scene in Latin America. The new project of these two talented musicians is a mix of traditional rhythms, the dialect of the Palenque people, melodies and sound sequences that evoke the Colombian jungle and that will definitely put to dance even to the most conservative and boring businessman, politicians, and lawyers.
Click on the picture below and Enjoy!
Album: Potro
Release Date: November 10th, 2012
Reviewer: jf yanqui rivera. KSTO St. Olaf College Radio - World Music Director.
Review Date: January 20, 2013
If you thought that Bomba Estereo, the colombian based electronic cumbia band, took the concept of traditional music to a next level in terms of innovation, creativity, and mass audience acceptance, then wait until you listen Mitú. Inspired on a trip to the jungle, Julian Salazar (the guitarist for Bomba Estereo) looked for the way to emulate the sounds of nature through synths and percussion, and yes... together with the percussionist Franklin Tejedor–best known as “Lamparita”–he found it, and it even has a name: Techno de Palenque.
Mitú takes its name from a small town located in South Eastern Colombia in the Amazon basin, and it is a musical project that is commanded with the vision of creating dance music through the combination of techno and tribal rhythms from the Palenque Afro-Colombian culture. In the first album of this phenomenal duo, Potro, they play with the psychedelic beats of analog synthesizers and rhythm machines combined with the power and ‘sabor’ of the tambor alegre that will turn the party on and will put to dance whoever listen their music live.
By combining traditional Palenque and other indigenous rhythms, and Afro-Colombian grooves with contemporary electronic music, Mitú has obtained a bracing and beguiling style that takes local music to a global realm. In fact, the latest album release Potro, has been able to drag the attention of the electronic music fans because it has an appealing touch of Acid House, but keeps the Afro essence and energy of the people in San Bacilio de Palenque; thus, this extremely original music reflects a work charged of folklore and cultural identity.
The ten-track album that is part of the first musical production of Mitú, reflects Colombia’s African heritage mixed with a wave of futurism that contribute to the growing electronic music scene in Latin America. The new project of these two talented musicians is a mix of traditional rhythms, the dialect of the Palenque people, melodies and sound sequences that evoke the Colombian jungle and that will definitely put to dance even to the most conservative and boring businessman, politicians, and lawyers.
Click on the picture below and Enjoy!