KUZKAZ
Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia | SELF
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La Fundación Cultural Cazadores de Auroras, organizadora del encuentro urbano ‘Trewa’, decidió apuntarle al lado ‘serio’ de la escena cultural juvenil: más academia y gestión. De esta manera, lo que venía siendo un espectáculo musical de una noche se volvió un evento académico de 8 días, con charlas, talleres, exposiciones colectivas y por supuesto, el componente musical.
Para la séptima edición de este evento Canadá y Estados Unidos son los países invitados, con la presentación de ocho colectivos colombianos de arte visual y sonoro.
‘Trewa’ se inicia mañana a las 9 A.M. en la Alianza Francesa, con la charla ‘El concepto como relleno, contenidos sociales en las manifestaciones urbanas’ que impartirá Mauricio Solano.
Todos los eventos son gratuitos, sin embargo, algunas actividades requieren inscripción previa. Para mayor información puede llamar al 3012935756. En http://trewa.blogspot.com hay más detalles y la programación del evento.
Al finalizar la semana de ‘Trewa’, el lunes 18 y el martes 19 de este mes, artistas como Amefrika Sound System, Ephniko, La Guardia, Küz*Káz, Golden Death Music, entre otros, ofrecerán dos conciertos de músicas experimentales y de
hip hop. - EL HERALDO
Discography
The band gets solid and recorded SHALA-LAB album (the laboratory of wind album) we take this as a very fascination for hip hop and free style movement and at last we are producing our third album called the ANTROSEXUS we plan to released next year.
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Bio
KUZKAZ is a musical quartet, from Barranquilla north Colombia conformed by Shalarem (keyboards, guitars, programming, machinery, percussions, composer and lead vocals), urariyu (synthesizer, keyboards, percussions and programming) , the witch vj ( chorus, vj, screen work, and ritual performance ) and keren h ( female vocals, kazoo and acoustic guitars ); this band came out of the closet in the early 2000 as Jesus girls just like an accurate answer to the decadent rock movement back in our city; four years later we take back our musical roots and the foundations of afro Caribbean rhythms and combine the electronic aesthetic with the organic sound of typical instruments of Colombian’s Caribbean as the tambour, the alegre the llamador and traditional bagpipes. We use as a basic recourse the computer the keyboards and synthesizers and performance alive with a bagpipe player a folklore tambour trio an invited dj, dancers and a full screen visual show by our vj .
Musical influences:
As we mentioned before our musical response to a full range of sounds that came from Africa, Colombia and all over the world ; in our style you´ll find rhythms like soka, Bembé, champeta,calypso vallenato and reggae fighting with our fascination for 80’s techno, acid house and old time hip hop school and electronic music in general that’s what we really do to confront two different cultures not only in a musical aspect but visually , we heard a lot of bands like Asian dud foundations, massive attack , buraka som system, the specials, dead or alive etc… and from Latin side we love la Sonora matancera, el general, Joe arroyo, Ishmael Rivera y los cachimbos, Carlos vives , tito Puente from Africa youssou ndour sala keba etc…
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