Events . Secret Planet Series: Meridian Brothers

Secret Planet Series: Meridian Brothers

outer space psych cumbia from columbia
Concert by Pandemic
Bottlerocket Social Hall 1226 Arlington Ave Pittsburgh
21+ $20

7pm doors, 8pm music

$20 ADV / $25 DOORS

[This show is part of the Tech25/Bottlerocket world music collaborative series SECRET PLANET. Find tickets to other Secret Planet shows}

Secret Planet tunnels deep into the borderless musical underground to bring you a season of musical experiences curated by people you trust. We’re a North East collective of independent presenters from New England to the Mid-Atlantic with big ears for innovative sounds and authentic performances.

Meridian Brothers
Colombia's Meridian Brothers are a futurist electro-rock act melding historic and modern experimental Latin rhythms and genres. Composer/multi-instrumentalist Eblis Álvarez writes, plays, arranges, and records Meridian Brothers' albums solo, and performs live with a band. The irreverent music melds electronic and organic instrumentation, South American, Caribbean, and Mexican rhythms and folk traditions. Their 2006 debut, El Advenimiento del Castillo Mujer, showcased "abstract folk music" inspired by the experiments of Bogota's traditional musical collectives in presenting mutant cumbia, and currulao. Desesperanza, their 2012 Soundway debut, was devised as a salsa concept album but went far afield. 2014's Salvadora Robot offered a clattering meld of rhythms, edgy guitars, and loopy keyboards in re-visioning vintage vallenato. 2019's quirky Dónde Estás María utilized a cello atop multi-tracked Latin rhythms in exploring cumbia, reggaeton, and Andean huaynos. 2022's El Grupo Renaciamiento was the first release to appear from the legendary Latin label Ansonia Records in three decades.

Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1998, Álvarez, the son of biologists, was a key mover in the city's experimental music scene. He was heavily influenced by psychedelic Latin rock -- primarily from Argentina -- and was seeking new ways of melding instrumental playing with electronic production techniques. He made early recordings that were distributed locally on cassette.

In 1999, he joined Mario Galeano's Ensamble Polifónico Vallenato as a guitarist. The group's innovative interpretation of traditional Colombian and tropical music, and Latin rhythms, influenced him greatly.




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