LA SONORA MAZUREN
Psychedelic Tropical Grooves from Bogotá
US TOUR FALL 2024
09/12 // Kingston NY, Tubby's
09/13 // Holyoke, MA, De la Luz
09/15 // Putney, VT, Bandwagon series
09/16 // Brooklyn, NY, Tropical Vortex, Barbès
09/18 // State College PA, 3 dots
09/21 // Chicago World Music Fest
09/22 // Lake County IL, CLC college
09/25 // Richmond VA, Get Tight Lounge
09/26 // Washington DC, Kennedy Ctr
09/28 // Miami FL, Zey Zey
New album and first ever US tour in September 2024!
La Sonora Mazuren is the latest addition to the already rich indie-tropical scene out of Bogotá, Colombia. Deeply rooted in the popular sounds and rhythms of South America, the group draws from cumbia, chicha, guaracha, champeta and other styles mostly from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.
Far from being folklorists or revivalists, La Sonora Mazuren combines synthesizers and electric guitars with accordion and percussion to create a futuristic style indebted to early pioneers such as Polibio Mayorga or Bogota’s own Eblis Alvarez, of Meridian Brothers fame, who also produced their debut album. The result is a psychedelic feast reminiscent of the golden years of Tropicalia. Their first album, Bailando con Extraños, got them many accolades in Europe, in France in particular where the band toured in the fall of 23 and again in the summer of 24.
Their follow up album, Magnetismo Animal, was mostly tracked in rural Normandy, during one of their European tours, and completed in Bogotá. Barbès Records (Roots of Chicha, Chicha Libre, Chico Trujillo) will be releasing it in the fall.
Franz Mesmer and his theory of animal magnetism provide the running theme for their new album. A collection of songs linked by the idea of a shared trance-inducing energy, channeled through rhythms and sound experiments.
Musical inspiration for the album come from Colombian gaita, vallenato and cumbia, Peruvian huayno and chicha, Ecuadorian Sanjuanitos - a
panoply of Afro-Andean traditions filtered through a futuristic vision of dance music that melds percussion-heavy polyrhythms and psychedelic sounds.
Band members are all active on the new tropical Bogotá scene. Keyboardist and accordionist Ivan Medellin and bassist Nicolas Eckardt are members of cult band Romperayo. Percussionists and singers Giovanna Mogollón and Diana Sanmiguel are also 2/3 of popular trio LA PERLA
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Featuring:
Juan David Lacorazza (guitar); Luis Lizarralde (drums); Iván Medellín (keyboards, accordion, vocals ), Giovanna Mogollón (percussion, vocals), Miguel Ángel Rodriguez Rebolledo (percussion, vocals); Diana Sanmiguel (percussion, vocals).
The band is based in Bogotá, Colombia,
7 musicians on stage and 8 people on the road
Contact us for more info at: Barbesbookings@gmail.com
