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  • Pueblo Vivo/ Vibrant People

    RAD-107

    Artist: La Otrabanda

    Label: Ropeadope

    We grew up in a part of the world where there are two things that keep you from sleeping until late in the mornings: the roosters and the omnipresent melodies usually coming from all directions, even in the early morning hours. It's this music that provides some relief from the tough and unpleasant routine of poverty. Music provides respite: at least everyone has the power to choose the radio station they hear during lunch, even when for some people their plate of food looks the same
    every day.

    Music makes up a fundamental part of daily life in Venezuela, and, in our experience, throughout Latin America. When we say "music", we don't mean just salsa, merengue and local folk music. we mean all the music that the process of globalization and the strong influence of the so-called "first world" have brought to us: rock, pop, jazz, etc.

    There is a consequence of globalization and cultural colonization that to us feels somewhat like a sweet revenge. In the same way that huge, transnational companies have taken our local riches and transformed them for their own interests, we took their music, transformed it to also make it our own. This serves as the basis for new, exciting musical experimentation.

    Glossary / Glosario

    Cresta del Gallo: asentamiento indigenas en las montañas de Niquitao.
    Rooster comb: indigenous settlement in Niquitao
    mountains.
    Niquitao: pueblo de los andes venezolanos, estado trujillo.
    Niquitao: small Venezuelan Andes town in Trujillo ...