Event

Alejo Aponte & Latonera

RATIOworld presents:

Direct from Colombia...

Alejo Aponte & Latonera (Gente Tour)
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www.alejoaponte.com

November 17, 2010
8pm doors | 930pm show
$10 in advance | $15 at the door
RUMBA 351 W. Hubbard

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Alejo Aponte describes his new release with Latonera, "ÂGente"Â, as "a cinematic record that tells the story of a man who wanders through the world discovering new roads, sounds, faces." The band's first studio project in three years brings together World Music, Afro Beat, organic urban music "and of course a lot of Colombian Spirit," he added.

Album Gente was produced by Hector Castillo (Cerati, Bowie , Bjork , Brazilian Girls) and features, Fonseca, Goyo (Sidestepper and Choc Quib Town), Marc Ribot, Sebastian Cruz, and many more. Recorded in the now defunct Looking Glass Studios in NY owned by Philip Glass...

"ÂGenteÂ" is born from a long musical journey that begins in the late 90's, when Alejo began to explore musical traditions from the Caribbean and from the south-eastern region of Colombia. This adventure complemented Aponte's apprenticeship with drummer Encarnacion Tovar "El Diablo De La Boquilla"
('The Devil from La Boquilla'); Aponte also traveled to Cuba to study Yoruba sonic traditions, and to Brazil's Bahia province to learn about different
African-derived rhythms. Aponte always seeks to blend percussive instruments,
traditional string arrangements, vocals and electronic elements, as well as
incorporating themes born from the streets and their common slang.

"My first songs were much more conceptual, closer to the Colombian folklore. I was more of a percussionist than anything else. We had an immense curiosity to learn, to reinvent starting from the Colombian musical tradition," Aponte remembers.