0.4.- Create a playlist with groovy music and name it "Design-Inspiration" 459.- Take pictures of random objects in your desk. 98.- Randomly choose a song from your "Design-Inspiration" playlist. 4.- Listen to the song you chose over and over again. 2013.- Youtube it and see if there is a video of your chosen song. 1.- Free your mind. 2.- Create. -56.- :) 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! Admirer by nature, 11:04:47 pm
Sunday. Cold. Nathan's house. Homeless. (or not?) Zoé. R. Ice Cream. Apple tree. Cider. Black. Sunset. Sunrise. More. Wind. 1.- Listen. 2.- Read. 3.- Tengo que ver a Gogol Bordello en vivo! - Quien es Simón?
- Las zapatillas negras con cosita comoda curvada para caminar. - Chifles de dulce. - Trabajo en progreso no se que hacer. - Puto Photoshop. - La inspiración es para amateurs. - Los cortes son obvios. - El background es pendejo. - Es la misma idea. - ... - Debería actualizar mi CV. - La bendita investigación. - Tomo pastillas de vitamina C como bebida refrescante. - Uhm... pan y quesito. - Hugo Hidrovo sabe. - Kingston Town. - Gogol Bordello. - Ser abanderado. Entrar a la U. Ir con camisa. Salir con una nena de a blusita y ponerse gel en la cabeza. - Porsiacaso: "Life Savers is an American brand of ring-shaped mints and artificially fruit-flavored hard candy." - Quiero comer flan de caramelo. El flan de caramelo tiene la textura perfecta, es como durito y suavito y revienta en tu boca. De ley eso aman tus papilas gustativas. - I need to pay my taxes. - I miss having access to Spotify and Pandora. - I miss waking up on Sundays and then going to brunch with Aseel. - I miss waking up with a hangover on Sundays, and then going to brunch with Aseel, and drinking apple juice. Apple juice and ice. Ice and apple juice ;) - Me encanta la avena toni. - C.S. Lewis sabe. - Catarsis. This is supposed to be an entry about her, about my expectations and fears of “officially” being a foreigner in the place I was born, about the dreams my consciousness keeps on building for the future, about the objective plans I have made for the coming years, about the confidence and security I convince myself to feel regarding the decisions I have made with my academic career, but ultimately, about finding my place between two worlds. These worlds are not only defined geographically, and yes, even if the U.S.A and Ecuador are the places I will be exploring, connecting, discovering, and defining, my search transcends the physical space and takes me to two subjective yet real worlds: one which I can see, touch, feel, and share with people around me, and the other one which only exists in my mind and that is shaped, defined, and made of idealizations–this world is ultimately made of the common: What if?
What if Riobamba (the city where my parents live) was a place where I could bike without the fear of getting crashed by an irresponsible car driver? What if St. Olaf (the college I go to) was a place where I could feel connected to and inherently excited about? What if instead of going out with my friends to waste our time, money, and oil by driving a car around and drinking cheap booze we could go camp far far away from the noisy city and watch the starts at night? What if I could entirely devote my time to do my homework and read for my classes at Olaf instead of longing for the mountains in Ecuador and going through Facebook pictures that remind me of that positive and idealized perception I have of the country that dictates my nationality? What if I could feel her company now? What if I could be right next to her and feel her enthusiasm, her courage, her willingness to live? What if, What if, What if... The coalition between those two worlds has motivated me to embark in a new adventure and come to Ecuador to get a grasp of the reality experienced by my family, my friends with whom I grew up in Riobamba, and my own... which is merely the product of Youtube clips, Al Jazeera articles, The Guardian and El Comercio headlines, fb chats with my friend Diego, and the regular skype calls I have with my mom. I want to be informed rather than just opinionated about the socio-political situation in Ecuador, and what could be better than obtaining first hand information of the things that interest me while training for the bike race that will initiate me in the “professional” world of cross-country cycling? Yes!!! I am here to learn about this country and its people, but also to train for the Chimborazo Extremo bike race–a 40.5 km race that goes from Urbina (3600 m.a.s.l.) to the first refugee of the Chimborazo mountain located at 4800 m.a.s.l. I will be living in Quito for the next four months, and while here I will try to immerse myself in the culture and have a legitimate “foreigner experience.” Through the program “Community Internships in Latin America,” which combines a home stay experience with an internship and a seminar that addresses local politics, ecological issues, racism, globalization, among others, I will take this opportunity to–somehow–get to know my own place. After five years of living abroad and studying in different environments, meeting people from different backgrounds, and exposing myself to other cultures–though, at this point it is difficult for me to really understand what “culture” really means–I have decided that it is time for me to come to the place where I was raised and really get to know Ecuador. In the same way, I think it is time for us to tell our own stories! With the rise of Rafael Correa as the President of Ecuador, the implementation of his “left wing” policies, and his irreverent and courageous attitude towards the conservative hegemonic powers of the world, Ecuador has been in the eye of the global media and I have the feeling that romantic and fictitious stories are being told by people who are not even able to spell Quito correctly, and I do not like this, I actually hate it!!! So, I am also here to have an objective experience of how things are happening and develop a critical understanding of the situation so that I can tell stories too. Since now I do not really know where I belong, I will be telling this stories in english and spanish. I want my college friends to be part of this experience, quiero que mis amigos con los cuales crecí me den una mano en entender una realidad que ahora es incomoda y diferente para mi, I want my professors to keep on guiding me through this academic exploration, I want her to know this part of me, I want to explore with her... but above all I want to find my place between these two worlds. Yes, this is where two worlds collide, and I love it!!! 1.- Procrastination allows me to discover different dimensions of time.
2.- Human beings as social creatures like stories. Therefore, this is how I must elaborate my points to be clearly understood, with personal stories. 3.- I inhabit a physical-social body arbitrarily named Juan Fernando. 4.- Love is an illusion I have created to cope with the fact that human beings are social creatures. 5.- I do not have a fixed identity; I take on roles depending on the situation. 6.- I act as if I was in the panopticon described by M. Foucault. 7.- I should not use Cultural Relativism to justify my apathy. 8.- I must address any intellectual issue by questioning rather than by reassuring facts. 9.- I do not owe or lack agency, I am just the result of random events over which I do not have control of. 10.- All I claim to know is just a glimpse of reality. |
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