Curations in
Las Cafeteras
Curations out
Who's taking you?
- Curation by: The Matrix
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Las Cafeteras
- City: East Los Angeles, California
- Country: United States
My Life
-
Bio:
Las Cafeteras have taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed-genre and musical borders, playing with bands such as Mexican icons Caifanes, Lila Downs, Colombian superstar Juanes, Los Angeles legends Ozomatli, folk/indie favorites Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and most recently with Talib Kweli.
Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern day stories. Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and positive message. Their Afro-Mexican beats, rhythms, and rhymes deliver inspiring lyrics that document stories of a community seeking love and justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish, and Spanglish and add a remix of sounds, from rock to hip-hop to rancheras.
Las Cafeteras use music as a vehicle to build bridges among different cultures and communities, and create ‘a world where many worlds fit’.
My Media
- Website: http://lascafeteras.com
- Instagram: lascafeteras
- Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://lascafeteras.bandcamp.com/
Click to Listen on Spotify
- (album/podcast 1): http://open.spotify.com/album/5SHxpx9zusBX63FOcIo45w
- (album/podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/0o4Yp01humYmlsZ4Jnhs3g
- (album/podcast 3): http://open.spotify.com/album/4BFPlNkEey9aE6jyzkBk9d
Contact Information
- Email: hello@lascafeteras.com
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word...
Limned in cadenced song...
The Recôncavo is a smile inside an irony wrapped in a conundrum.
► The matrix originated as an extension of a record shop opened to divulge the little known music of the people of the Recôncavo and sertão of Bahia, Brazil (per this interview with David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio and hence a sugarcane cutter as our logo), along with other great Brazilian music.
► But in order to provide pathways from around the world to these largely unknown artists, the matrix has to do likewise for all artists everywhere.
