New Music From Los de Abajo on Calabash Music

Complete & Live (L.A./04)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:33:44 -0500

28 countries enjoyed them!, The BBC awarded them its 2003 Americas World Music Award.Now, for the first time ever… LIVE, LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! The chicano power concert... live! This 2 set show reviews the first decade of Los De Abajo’s musical history with amazing live energy, burning and political Latin fire. Recorded multi-track in downtown Los Angeles as part of the Grand Performance series this concert will leave you dancing. Their upbeat latin, ska, funk, electro mixture is loco.

Cybertropic Chilango Power

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:33:44 -0500

Los de Abajo's band name means "those from below" and represents a statement of solidarity with the oppressed people of the world. For example the group plays benefits for the infamous Zapatista movement, which is fighting to bring a degree of self-determination to the people of Chiapas in southern Mexico. "Cybertropic Chilango Power evokes a place where rebel gangs proclaim revolution to the pulse of mambo and merengue rhythms. An eight-piece collective, Los de Abajo at times seem like a semiacoustic Rage Against the Machine, delivering musical manifestos via mariachi brass and percolating percussion." -- Blender

Complete & Live (L.A./04) (2 of 2)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:33:44 -0500

Los de Abajo

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:33:44 -0500

"Call it Tropipunk, file it under Explosive. It's the sound of the future, get used to it" Los de Abajo takes their name from a classic novel about the Mexican Revolution, and they fervently believe that change comes from below. "Of course, the ideas had an influence on the music," says Yocu. "This became the most punk and radical thing: combining our sentiments with the strength and heat of Afro-Latin rhythms." They are an exciting combination of rock energy, salsa, reggae and cumbia. Los de Abajo endeavor to present Mexico in its crazy-quilt glory. "We’re not a mosaic, but a kaleidescope of Mexican life."