Meridian Brothers/Lollise/DJ Bongohead

ELECTRONIC TROPICAL ROOTS FREAK-OUT

The Meridian Brothers — Eblis Álvarez’s creative combo from Colombia — has no brothers in it, actually. Ween or Beck come to mind as the closest musical analogues here: weird and unafraid and endlessly creative. Björk, Kraftwerk and Radiohead are also inspirations. Over the years, his group has cemented into one of the most legendary underground bands of Latin America.

The tropical Bogota five-piece draws from an encyclopedic familiarity with Lat Am popular music, from cumbia to salsa to vallenato, to produce psychedelic, synthed-out pastiches — trad roots gone to outer space. Their constant experimentation is re-inventing Colombian music for the next century. And above all, they’re just trying to have fun.

👀 WATCH KEXP SESSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiXKhKRCsg

MOVIMIENTO NEO-TROPICALISTA

The past several years have seen the Meridian Brothers release a trilogy of albums, each of which puts futuristic flourishes and avant weirdness to a different genre of Latin American music: “Cumbia Siglo XXI”, “Paz en la Tierra,” and “El Grupo Renacimiento” took on cumbia, vallenato, and salsa, respectively.

Following this creative crush of material, the band has been touring pretty relentlessly, pulling together material from these albums and older classics into a dance-forward setlist that veers around Colombian music like a UFO snapping up the most fantastic sounds in its tractor beam.

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

it’s our season finale. We celebrate surviving our first year as a Community Supported Music series with special guests!
DJ Bongohead spins tropical vinyl. Lollise (Fela! Band, Underground System) comes up from NY to share deep Afrofuturist cuts like “The Booty” . Get your tickets or RSVP today.

$22 ADV / $25 DOOR
SECRET LOCATION, TBA in downtown Northampton
DOORS+DJ 7PM | SHOW 7:30PM

Presented in collaboration with the Northampton Arts Council.