Meridian Brothers + Dick El Demasiado

Meridian Brothers

From Bogotá – Colombia, MERIDIAN BROTHERS is a contemporary neo-tropicalista group founded in 1998 from the interests of Eblis Álvarez (composer and multi-instrumentalist) as a musical laboratory for a small audiences and distributed at the time in cassette format.

Starting in 2007, the project became a live act formed by a group university friends: María Valencia (wind instruments, percussion and keyboards), Eblis Álvarez (vocals, guitar and direction), Mauricio Ramírez who joined the band in 2016, replacing Damián Ponce (Drums), Alejandro Forero (keyboards), César Quevedo (bass) and in sound engineering, Alejandro Araujo (replacing Juan Camilo Montañéz).

Dick El Demasiado

Dick El Demasiado, aka Dick Verdult, is a visual artist, musician, author and filmmaker. Throught his career he has been marked as a pioneer. Starting with interactive cinema in de 70’s, with punk television in the 80’s, with group-performances and internet in the 90’s, and with cumbia and the distortion of popular culture in this present milenium.

The artists language distorts clichés, twists perspectives, and flows continuously with media-driven manipulations. The cinematic concepts he creates evoke a sense of playfulness or discomfort, adaptable to the most suitable medium without any preference for traditional craftsmanship.

Als Colombiaanse journalisten hem al sinds 2003 de Neil Armstrong van de Maanzieke Cumbias noemen, dan is dat omdat zwaartekracht in zijn vervormde dansmuziek niet bestaat. Van Patagonië tot de Poolzee, overal waar een goede geluisinstallatie is, gaat hij los. 5 cd’s, twee vinyls, en tóch amper op spotify omdat hij daar geen zin in heeft.

Timing

20:00 doors
21:00 Dick El Demasiado
22:00 Meridian Brothers