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NACION EKEKO The musician and producer Diego Perez (from Tonolec) presents THE DANCE, his first cd from the project EKEKO NATION. NATION EKEKO it is Latin-American musical trip where live together songs and ancestry melodies, indigenes voices, pre-Columbian instruments and new technologies. His compositions lead us to vibrate in harmony with the land, inviting us to celebrate the meeting of dance and rhythm. There is a single nation and is connected by the Ekeko. That nation exists and is vibrating. The Ekeko is the God of abundance, fertility and joy of the Andean Altiplano; it is the Messenger who brings the good news of the Nations.
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The dance" has 7 songs and each one of them was inspired by the voice of a character in Latin America. The drive runs from the Argentine Pampa with Atahualpa to Mexico with the poetry from the tree of live through Chaco, Amazons and the Uris Island in Peru and Bolivia Although it is difficult to talk about genres in nation Ekeko, the disc goes from a milonga campera to a Central American cumbia, has influences of African sound and integrates with the house and the dab. The colors and textures of the disk help to see a unique and singular musical landscape
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About “THE DANCE ”, Diego Perez says Since a long time I am playing to compose and to feel the music of the spoken voice.” I started to collect voices and recorded during my trips by Latin American and from those voices I started to compose the music and rhythm. To play this songs alive I felt the necessity that the improvisation and the electronic works in an integrated way and to use the electronic as a means and not as a purpose. It s allowed me to explore other Sonic universes and expand the sound to connect with the spiritual". "The dance" creates a path from ancestral to the technological to bring men into a collective vibration, This is possible thanks to a work of more than four years that Diego is developing with the help of Yamil Burgener, software developer from Chaco, Argentina. With whom We created a new way of playing live music bringing electronics to an organic place. They propose creating music with dance of movement and thus make visible the electronic putting the body as a means
Performance ( ATHAUALPA SONG ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqSRxVk0S6I
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The performance of NACION EKEKO It will be characterized by the interaction between the electronic and live percussion . The technology at the service of improvisation using synthesizers, loops and wireless controllers that let you modify the sound by moving hands in the air; thus generating constant changes, such as landscapes that are happening along the way ...
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LA DANZA 1 – El hijo del altiplano 2 – Atahualpa 3 – La Ureñita 4 – Guarania 5 – Tokwaj 6 – Del mismo río 7 – El árbol de la vida
KONEX EXPERIENCE , ELEACTROANDINA PARTY https://vimeo.com/70562799 listen THE DANCE: https://nacionekeko.bandcamp.com Follow Nación Ekeko en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nacionekekko Twitter: https://twitter.com/nacionekeko