Pommez Internacional

And on the surface, there is there personal dimension. That which is printed by a band that is working at their full capacity, taking risks and writing an encyclopedia where a lot of things are happening at the same time. - Billboard Magazine (Argentina)

Towards the end of the album, a reporter lists current concepts that involve different conflicts - gender identity, South American populism, corruption, trending topic-; but the song's name is 'Celebrar es un Derecho Divino' ('To Celebrate is a Divine Right'), and its last word seem as if they have been written by a yogi: 'This moments are divine, and the past treasures memories. All paths lead to you'. Immediately after, an instrumental track called 'Sur', peaceful like good breathing, puts an end to the new album from this impressive band that has both feet firm in the ground and looks to the front, towards an infinite horizon. - La Agenda Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Only two songs have been published so far from this release. Yet, it is impossible to understand this album from just these two songs, since it's very deep and the variety of arrangements is incredible. Your expectations are not to be betrayed. I hope your impression meets mine after it is released on September 30th. - Shimashita (Japan)

Juan Ibarlucía emphasizes that 'Canto Serpiente' is an album that is both 'political and spiritual'. 'It contains 13 chronicles of enlightenment and heartbreak forged by the heat of the global south'. About the message that can be found on the album lyrics, the artist claims that 'each album is a different project. The lyrics are intimately linked to what we are doing in terms of music, they appear almost at the same time as the music and I work on them with a lot of dedication, developing several different versions until I get to the final one. I am more interested in building imaginary worlds that allow multiple interpretations than in sending content to listeners'. - TN (Argentina)

Now, Ibarlucía broadens his grasp with 'Canto Serpiente', an album that not only expands the band's sonic frontiers to bring Pommez Internacional's sound a more organic and earthly texture, but also forces it to move away from its homeland and gallop around the world while writing a travel journal. Nevertheless, 'Canto Serpiente' is not exactly the recollection of a trip, but an imaginary impression of a future in which light and shadows; what is familiar and what is foreign; and what is close and what is far away, all these elements interact and talk to each other. - IndieHearts (Argentina)

In Pommez Internacional's "Iluminación", a fight between two friends tears down a highway diner. - Rolling Stone (Argentina)

An ode to the suffering of heartbreak, covered in envolving and intense electronic sound layers and accompanied by a beautifully chaotic video. - Noisey Vice (Colombia)

Pommez Internacional is about to release their new album, Canto Serpiente, follower to the career-changing Buenas Noches América (2013). After an offline campaign including graffitis all over Buenos Aires from which you could download the album's first single, we now get the official video for “Iluminación“. - Indie Hoy (Argentina)

A year later, Pommez Internacional has returned to SXSW – but this time things are different. Over the past year, the group’s visibility has gotten a boost in the Latin alternative scene across the country and in Mexico, where Pommez Internacional continued to tour after SXSW 2014. After experiencing a year of what they call “exponential growth,” they’re building on that momentum by working on new music in the vibrant cultural haven of Buenos Aires. - Austin360

Listening to Pommez Internacional's third album is like going on a musical world tour. It is an intense ride which, through its 13 songs, puts you in a state of trance on the threshold between reality and imagination, along with emotionally-heavy content (in a positive way).

It is probably very infrequent that a band's name represents so directly its album's essence; not because 'Canto Serpiente' knows no cultural or symbolic frontiers, but because inside of it Afro-Latin rhythms, folklore, rock and electronic music coexist, along with biblical characters and Aztec and Yoruba mythology; apart from breaking all preconceptions when it comes to singing in Spanish. - Rocktails (Argentina)

After releasing ‘Iluminación’, Pommez Internacional now brings us a mysterious visual production starring Ailin Salas and Malena Villa. - Terra (Argentina)

The new song is “Amor Hierro”. They call it a "melodramatic song" and it's priceless and makes us want to listen to the full album. Canto Serpiente is the follow-up to the perfect Buenas Noches América and we will be able to listen to it soon. - IndieHearts (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional shares with us their new single ‘Iluminación’ from their upcoming album Canto Serpiente (2016), their third studio release which was recorded at Estudios Romaphonic in Buenos Aires and produced by Juan Stewart. - Warp (Mexico)

After the succesful release of ‘Iluminación’, their new album's first single, they are now bringing us ‘Amor Hierro’, which features Denise Gutierrez, singer of the great mexican band Hello Seahorse! - El Parlante Amarillo (Colombia)

The song is called “Iluminación”, an electropop track that mesmerizes you with its sequences and electronic sounds. - Revista Marvin (Mexico)

Now that the argentines are preparing to release their third studio album, things are only looking better and better for them. - LifeBoxSet (Mexico)

The argentine experimental pop rock band has recently released a duet with Denise Gutierrez from Hello Seahorse! titled "Amor Hierro". - Txart (Mexico)

And they have done it again. Within the ocean of current Latin American sounds, the argentines Pommez Internacional surprise us once again with their original sound, in which influences of contemporary rock and Latin American music or "folklore" (spell all of the word's letters, like they do it in Argentina) coexist in fruitful harmony. It is not a strange thing, since our own music reflects ourselves. - Sonidos (Perú)

Juan Ibarlucia: “Latin America is full of conflicts, and it's fascinating to talk about them, without necessarily having to take part in them. 'Capricornio' does not support the thief nor the police." (...) "The world is an agitated place, and we believe it's important for Latin American artists to 'take photographs' of our time" - SG Entertainment (Mexico)

Hernan Ballotta: "Our music is very urban, it's music that was created in a Latin American metropolis, and I think that the relationship we can develop with Mexico can be very prolific and productive. In the few gigs we have had so far, feedback from the audience has been extraordinary, they have made us feel at home." - Revista Freim (Mexico)

With a style that’s something like the self-described “the sound of two cars crashing at 200 miles per hour,” the Capricornio-signed artists will bring their soulful-yet-wonderfully-messy sound for an intimate set in the showroom. - Remezcla

Are there predominant influences in Pommez Internacional's music?

Juan Ibarlucia: "No. I respect ideas that are cohesive, have continuity and an artistic editing that is evolutionary, and maintain all of these during a long period of time. That could be said of Ruben Blades in Central America for example, or of Cafe Tacvba in Mexico. It's not a matter of styles, it's a matter of logic, of ways of working. I can hear their evolution in their music, and that evolution is passes on to me. That is what I respect most of all; that is what links all of the music that I listen to. This being said, what I listen to is very varied. In 'Buenas Noches America' you can find orchestral moments, cumbia moments, hip hop moments. We want to be 'antropophagic': we want to devour our influences and spit them out as a new personality which is our own." - Filter Mag (Mexico)

(...)This is why, apart from their ability to jump from Nueva Africa's tribalism to the 'villero' rythm of Capricornio, from the dubstep-inclined ceremony of La Celebracion to the 'incidentality' of Hacia el Este (all of these songs are a part of Buenas Noches America), Pommez Internacional's pennant spins around the group's comprehension of their time of living in Argentina. "When I write, I never do it thinking of my generation. I start at a lower level: I write something that moves me, and then I see what happens. Why make a difference between People and Oneself? One is People." - Pagina 12 (Argentina)

I’d been curious about Argentina’s Pommez Internacional, and caught their recent day show. Their experimental sounds that flirt with everything from rock to electronica defy genres, and makes them one of Argentina’s most interesting bands. - Austin 360

Coming from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pommez internacional has become one of the most fascinating up-and-coming electronic indie pop bands Spanish-speaking bands. - Amok (Mexico)

Fortunately, for the ones who love Spanish-language Rock music, the scene and the channels for its promotion are growing in number and size, making it possible for this music, via the current technologic revolution, to get to every corner of the world. This is why Buenas Noches America, the new record from Argentinians Pommez Internacional, is arriving at our country. They are trying to conquer the mexican audience, prior to their first visit here. - Diario Imagen (Mexico)

Check out the new Pommez Internacional song featuring Denise from Hello Seahorse! - POTQ (Chile)

Juan Ibarlucia: "Yes, 'Buenas Noches america' was born under an initial tornado of songs that included Rosario de la Frontera and Nueva Africa, which I wrote during a three-month period. This were songs that were going in a very different direction from the one that the first record had taken. By expanding and developing that new concept, we made a record that, I believe, accounts for experiences that one has when living in a Latin American metropolis, carrying that intense relationship between politics and private life. It is impossible to live without politics; politics get in your house uninvitedly, therefore I think that leaving a trace of that conjunction is what gives this record its heart. And this Latin American conjunction also has a lot to do with things that occurr all around the world. That is what 'Buenas Noches America' is for us: a photograph that in 10 years will represent a moment in history". - Contracultura (Mexico)

Pommez Internacional romanced crowds with its spacey sounds - Central Track

Hernan Ballotta adds that Pommez Internacional belongs to a Latin American scene that is currently growing. "There is a very interesting movement in our continent, with very varied music, that is developing a strong independent scene. There is still a need for massive media that can take advantage of this, but it is a great musical moment for our nations." - Curul del Espectador (Mexico)

For the ones who want urban music, fierce music, urgent music and something they have never heard before, apart from "an intense experience to see presented in a festive and apocalyptic ritual", Pommez Internacional is the option. - Revista Kuadro (Mexico)

"We use a visual metaphor to describe the experience resulting from listening to Pommez Internacional playing live", explains Hernan, who defines the band's music as an expression of what it is to live in a Latin American metropolis, such as Mexico City. - Diario Milenio (Mexico)

Argentina, Latin America, North America, The World. Pommez is nowadays a group that is growing in every sense of the word, from their own lineup to the way their music spreads, going through everything on their way and breaking new ground; and they know that a lot of people will stop to listen to them and that's where the expansion cycle begins. It is time to knock on doors, attract followers and show their music. Perhaps tomorrow just to name them will be more than enough for people to know who they are, and later on they might become a legend. - Afonica (Mexico)

Buenas Noches America is a pop album with the finger set on the trigger. It has an edge, laboratory-like precision, instinct, blood, making a strong bet on urgent affairs that are occurring as we speak.
We understand that in the process of communicating an urgent story, we began to open our musical and emotional spectrum and somehow that is creating a larger and more varied audience than the one we had before. As you well said, it has nothing to do with music as trade, but with a creative and ultra-expansive musical process that has gradually taken over everything we do: our music, lyrics and images.

- What is Pommez Internacional?
- A gun. A lover. A vision. - El Acople (Argentina)

Buenas Noches America is a pop album with the finger set on the trigger. It has an edge, laboratory-like precision, instinct, blood, making a strong bet on urgent affairs that are occurring as we speak.
We understand that in the process of communicating an urgent story, we began to open our musical and emotional spectrum and somehow that is creating a larger and more varied audience than the one we had before. As you well said, it has nothing to do with music as trade, but with a creative and ultra-expansive musical process that has gradually taken over everything we do: our music, lyrics and images.

- What is Pommez Internacional?
- A gun. A lover. A vision. - El Acople (Argentina)

The group Pommez Internacional contribute a spare score stuffed with an itchy nervousness that would have been good to see expressed as much onscreen as it is on the soundtrack. - VARIETY MAG (USA)

The group Pommez Internacional contribute a spare score stuffed with an itchy nervousness that would have been good to see expressed as much onscreen as it is on the soundtrack. - VARIETY MAG (USA)

Tense and intriguing.

The four-piece act proposes a “soundtrack to a non-existing film”, or a film that hasn’t yet been made. - SI! - Clarin (Argentina)

Tense and intriguing.

The four-piece act proposes a “soundtrack to a non-existing film”, or a film that hasn’t yet been made. - SI! - Clarin (Argentina)

The Buenos Aires-native group has just released their second album entitled "Buenas Noches America", an album aesthetically ambitious and committed to its surrounding reality. This is an album that acts as a Trojan horse for the unprepared listener who is off guard. Through dance beats and infectious vocal melodies we enter, almost without realizing it, a world inhabited by outcasts, people who fight for fair causes and forgotten continents. To put it in a few words, not a fragile universe.

"Buenas Noches America" is a conceptually flawless work. There is artistic premeditation and intention, there are no loose ends. Every sound, every arrangement, every sentence, they all have a very specific function. As if they were a group of expert shooters, Pommez Internacional aim their arrows towards that exact place where emotions activate and they definitely hit the target. - Rosario Indie (Argentina)

The Buenos Aires-native group has just released their second album entitled "Buenas Noches America", an album aesthetically ambitious and committed to its surrounding reality. This is an album that acts as a Trojan horse for the unprepared listener who is off guard. Through dance beats and infectious vocal melodies we enter, almost without realizing it, a world inhabited by outcasts, people who fight for fair causes and forgotten continents. To put it in a few words, not a fragile universe.

"Buenas Noches America" is a conceptually flawless work. There is artistic premeditation and intention, there are no loose ends. Every sound, every arrangement, every sentence, they all have a very specific function. As if they were a group of expert shooters, Pommez Internacional aim their arrows towards that exact place where emotions activate and they definitely hit the target. - Rosario Indie (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional comes close to what could be the soundtrack for many films. ‘It mixes elements of sacred music, electronic music and pop music. It was developed through pianos, guitars and drums’. - 98 decibeles (Costa Rica)

Pommez Internacional comes close to what could be the soundtrack for many films. ‘It mixes elements of sacred music, electronic music and pop music. It was developed through pianos, guitars and drums’. - 98 decibeles (Costa Rica)

Pommez Internacional has become one of the most interesting musical projects in current Argentina. With a unique and unclassifiable profile, they have managed to position themselves, and even got to be part of the MTV Europe Music Awards. They also wrote the soundtrack for the 2011 BAFICI award winning film La Carrera del Animal (Animal’s Run). Apart from having played in Buenos Aires’ most important venues and having toured Argentina, they also had the opportunity to perform live in Germany, Switzerland and Spain. - Rosario Indie (Argentina)

We share with great surprise the first single for Pommez Internacional's new album, one of the finest examples of new Latin Pop, which rises from the underground scene towards infinity. - Sonidos (Perú)

Pommez Internacional has become one of the most interesting musical projects in current Argentina. With a unique and unclassifiable profile, they have managed to position themselves, and even got to be part of the MTV Europe Music Awards. They also wrote the soundtrack for the 2011 BAFICI award winning film La Carrera del Animal (Animal’s Run). Apart from having played in Buenos Aires’ most important venues and having toured Argentina, they also had the opportunity to perform live in Germany, Switzerland and Spain. - Rosario Indie (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional is part of the honorable exceptions who still believe that it is possible to walk through paths that have yet remained unexplored. - Los Inrockuptibles (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional is part of the honorable exceptions who still believe that it is possible to walk through paths that have yet remained unexplored. - Los Inrockuptibles (Argentina)

In a certain way, we are a pop act, but always from the ‘popular’ factor in pop. Live shows could be said to possess rock elements in the way the band sounds. - Tiempo Argentino (Argentina)

In a certain way, we are a pop act, but always from the ‘popular’ factor in pop. Live shows could be said to possess rock elements in the way the band sounds. - Tiempo Argentino (Argentina)

“Champions aren’t made in gyms”, once said Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali-; "they are born from something deeper: a desire, a dream, a vision." Because muscles are nothing compared to passion. Therein lies the real secret of all unquestionable Knock Out. (regarding the concert given by Pommez Internacional at ’70 seconds before K.O.’) - Rocktails Mag (Argentina)

“Champions aren’t made in gyms”, once said Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali-; "they are born from something deeper: a desire, a dream, a vision." Because muscles are nothing compared to passion. Therein lies the real secret of all unquestionable Knock Out. (regarding the concert given by Pommez Internacional at ’70 seconds before K.O.’) - Rocktails Mag (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional is a difficult band to categorize. And that's what makes them so interesting. The quintet released this year a new album called Buenas Noches America, where the music is more accessible and responds to other pretentions. Running away from the ‘think rock’ label or any other label, Pommez Internacional flirts with cumbia, electronica, and the most rock-like experimentation, but moves away from the picture created by Contraluz Contraataque (2010) where they could have been easily listed as an instrumental act. The band’s second (official) album surprises and delights through this discomfot that it generates in our ears (expected, delicious) by being unable to fit in any category. - IndieHearts (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional is a difficult band to categorize. And that's what makes them so interesting. The quintet released this year a new album called Buenas Noches America, where the music is more accessible and responds to other pretentions. Running away from the ‘think rock’ label or any other label, Pommez Internacional flirts with cumbia, electronica, and the most rock-like experimentation, but moves away from the picture created by Contraluz Contraataque (2010) where they could have been easily listed as an instrumental act. The band’s second (official) album surprises and delights through this discomfot that it generates in our ears (expected, delicious) by being unable to fit in any category. - IndieHearts (Argentina)

The term ‘experimental’ has often been used to describe Pommez Internacional’s music. This expression could mean many things as well as nothing at all. In this case, it seems to be validated by the band’s intention to remain careless about the typical structures of rock and pop music, letting themselves go through long instrumental sections dominated by a particular sense of rhythm. In fact, from the beginning of their second album, with the first bars in an (unreal) techno-pop way from the title track, rhythmic development is a key element.

Baring a certain resemblance to the research made by post-OK Computer Radiohead ("Va" is a clear example of this), Pommez Internacional combines rock-like energy and distorsion with an electronic pulse, achieving a high-quality audio recording (it’s not a minor thing that the eight tracks included in the album were produced by Juan Stewart and mastered by Eduardo Bergallo).
However, the group has also included some "songs" in the record. And in those tracks, they manifest the same irreverence towards traditional structures as in the instrumental tracks.

It is clear that Pommez Internacional is about sonic exploration and genre freedom, which is not something very common in the current Argentine music scene. - VuenosAirez (Argentina)

The term ‘experimental’ has often been used to describe Pommez Internacional’s music. This expression could mean many things as well as nothing at all. In this case, it seems to be validated by the band’s intention to remain careless about the typical structures of rock and pop music, letting themselves go through long instrumental sections dominated by a particular sense of rhythm. In fact, from the beginning of their second album, with the first bars in an (unreal) techno-pop way from the title track, rhythmic development is a key element.

Baring a certain resemblance to the research made by post-OK Computer Radiohead ("Va" is a clear example of this), Pommez Internacional combines rock-like energy and distorsion with an electronic pulse, achieving a high-quality audio recording (it’s not a minor thing that the eight tracks included in the album were produced by Juan Stewart and mastered by Eduardo Bergallo).
However, the group has also included some "songs" in the record. And in those tracks, they manifest the same irreverence towards traditional structures as in the instrumental tracks.

It is clear that Pommez Internacional is about sonic exploration and genre freedom, which is not something very common in the current Argentine music scene. - VuenosAirez (Argentina)

Pommez Internacional releases a single from their new album. - Musica de Color (Chile)

The new album has 13 songs that talk about territory, the world's south and about time and its erosions. A seductive, ferocious and deep album. - Yamp! (Uruguay)

The song includes a new video, in which two girls talk to each other in sign language at a coffee store. - Festify (Mexico)

In “Iluminación”, modular synthesizers and avant-garde electronics vibrate through a pure Latin American heart. - Acá pasan cosas (Argentina)

The guys from Pommez Internacional have released the first single from what will be their new album, Canto Serpiente. - IndieHearts (Argentina)

Today, we exclusively release the video for their most recent single "Iluminación", which features excellent photography, special FX and captivating synthesizers. Directed by Gabriel Bosisio. - Gatosordo (El Salvador)

This record confirms the band's status as a group that is expanding internationally, as well as it is expanding its musical scope towards new musical frontiers, as it is shown in "Iluminación", their new single. - Notodo (Spain)

Today we recommend this new song ['Amor Hierro'] that has just been released, along with its lyric video. It belongs to the great argentine group Pommez Internacional. - Revista Ladosis (Venezuela)

Pommez Internacional no se guarda ningún recurso: rock, electrónica, orquestaciones y tribalismo conviven en su tercer disco, muchas veces en el mismo tema. "Río Jordán" es un post-punk intenso de batería machacante y guitarras disonantes, inspirado por el conflicto entre Palestina e Israel. Inmediatamente después aparece "Amor hierro", un bolero que podría cantar Diego Torres si se uniera a los Bad Seeds. En el medio de ese espectro temático y sonoro hay sintetizadores y referencias a la música de Africa ("Canto serpiente"), Brasil ("Iemanjá") y China (la base tipo cajita de música de "Celebrar es un derecho divino"), no tanto para reivindicar una cultura sino más bien para deconstruir. y luego volver a armar. - Rolling Stone

Pommez Internacional - Canto Serpiente: The talented Argentinian band imagines a dystopian world inspired by small postcards taken from the world: Buenos Aires, the Jordan River, Brazil, and more. Soundwise, the band doesn’t commit to one genre and harmoniously incorporates different instruments to create an electronic and dreamy atmosphere. - Deezer