Los Zeros sums up an era of Latin music
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Los Zeros sums up an era of Latin music
Hartford Courant – Jan 30, 2008
It’s time we locate contemporary Latin music trends in something called “Los Zeros. ” What characterizes the era of Los Zeros? ne trend urban pop has its roots in the ’90s when rap and dance hall en espanol laid the groundwork for reggaeton. The influence of ’70s and ’80s styles such as reggae and post-disco R&B crept gradually into Latin music until a new hybrid of polyrhythmic Caribbean beats and slow-jam aesthetics created the urban pop sound. Now what once seemed separate genres — hard-core reggaeton romantic pop salsa merengue cumbia and bachata — are all part of a new fusion. Artists once pigeonholed as underground rappers are now international pop musicians and the likes of. The super-twangy guitar and hopping dance that helped bachata burst onto the scene has also been co-opted into a funky teen pop in which.
The Necks are out at the Gov
NEWS.com.au – Jan 30, 2008
With piano bass and drums they inhabit the stage silently. The audience grows quiet and somehow they are visited by an idea that becomes a line of music that becomes hypnotic timeless improvisation until perhaps an hour or two later the players and audience surface for a breather. Bassist Lloyd Swanton can see influences from dub reggae Steve Reich and Indian classical ragas in the music that results. "Anyone can come up with a new direction in music" he says. "The tricky part is finding an audience. " The Necks have done that with 14 albums so far that sell in their thousands both here and in Europe. They also make regular tours of Australia and Europe and the experience in Europe has been similar to Australia: the audiences build slowly but constantly until venues sell out.
FF THE WALL
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 30, 2008
Pretty lively for a winter’s Tuesday around these parts right? And all for a “pay what you can” cover too. Sushi and cinema are not all that’s going down downtown on Tuesday evenings; Basic plans to coast through the rest of San Diego’s midweek winter blues with some sort of free event be it an airbrush or tattoo demo a surf and skate fashion show or a reggae hoedown. They’re calling it Graffiti. More on that to come soon. The walk home gave way to a pigeon snoozing alongside the condos next to the remains of.
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