fotos : montevideo, uruguay
i made a post about this band trotsky vengarán the other day. then i thought oh my goodness, how have i never made a post about la vela puerca?! also from montevideo, they have a really appealing style. it's that familiar south american rock-ska-protest pop en español, but with maybe a bit less urgency, a bit more bohemia. and similar to the way that el gran silencio utilize cumbia & vallenato or don omar incorporates a little bachata now & then, la vela also pull in the traditional rhythms of their patria, murga & candombe. sooo nice!
they also have a really sweet how-they-got-their-big-break story. basically the singer sent in a demo tape to a television contest without telling his bandmates. they found out he had entered them in the contest when they were announced as finalists. they won the contest and the prize was a guitar, an amp, & 80 hours of studio time which was how they put together their first album.
el viejo : la vela puerca
de atar : la vela puerca
sooo good, no? oh how i wish they would come to sf for a show! or even to sunnyvale ;) enough of this playing all over alemania and the czech republic. our turn!!! que no?
doble filo : la vela puerca
zafar : la vela puerca
another band from uruguay, recommended by pato, is no te va gustar. it's funny because of course there was confusion in our conversation about them. i think we were watching one of their music videos on tv and it went something like this...
pato: this band is from uruguay, they're good. kind of like la vela puerca.
me: what are they called?
pato: no te va gustar.
me: oh... ¿no? ...¿por qué no?
pato: (laughs)
and on & on, you get the idea. jaja. here's a video which i find very amusing (and which prompts me to think about what they might be giants might be like if they were south american). it's a little bit salsa, a little bit just ridiculous.
llévame contigo : no te va a gustar
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