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The Roberto López Project
By Genie MacLeod
Phillipe Renaud writes in La Presse, that the title of the new album from the Roberto López Project fits the band like a glove. He is absolutely right. Soy Panamericano, which means I am Pan-American, is a fitting moniker for not only the musicians themselves, who hail from every corner of the Americas, but also for the band's eclectic and inventive musical style.
López himself, who founded the Project in 2005, was raised on the Afro-Colombian rhythms of his native Bogotá, but he started out as a rocker. Inspired by American rock bands like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, he started his own band, Double U. C., as a teenager and kicked off the Rock en Español movement in South America. Eventually he discovered jazz, a passion which led him to study in Montreal. He has rounded out his modern education with trips back to Colombia and to Cuba where he learned about traditional instruments and styles.
The nine-piece "polycultural band" defines their sound as Nu Afro Latin, a blend of "Afro-Colombian and Afro-Cuban music mixed with urban Hip-hop, Boogaloo, Jazz and Electronica...from Cumbia-Funk and Urban-Salsa all the way to Hip-Hop-Guajiras!" The members come from Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Brazil, New-Brunswick, and Quebec, and their talents include everything from rap to playing the kuisi, a kind of Colombian flute. And, of course, their music is trilingual!
Multiculturalism is not merely a byproduct, but the foundation of the Project's musical philosophy. López's goal for the Project was to bring together musicians and musical styles that would accurately reflect the multicultural make-up of Montreal. This infectious collective can have you dancing from Montreal to Havana to Bogotá and back all within one song. To paraphrase from Culture Hebdo Quebec, if you can sit through a Roberto López Project concert without needing to dance, you are probably a zombie!
To listen to four songs from their new album, hop on over to the Roberto López Project MySpace page
And before you go, here is a quick introduction to the hot rhythms and make-you-wanna-move melodies that Roberto and friends have in store for you:
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