#gothic cumbia

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"Cangrejo" by Chachapoyas, Peru-based post-punk and post-cumbia act Afrika Korps off of their 2024 debut album El el Laberinto, presented by indie record label Discos Soma

[jextestament]

𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍 #alt #alternative #punk #goth #guitar #gothic #gothboy #cumbia #emo #epic #emoboy #épico #metalhead #metal #gamer #vampire #otaku #weeb #idontknow (en Synyster Gates) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmw2iPnuaif/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[andromerot]

argentinian summer gothic estoy tirada en la cama delirando con el ventilador al lado. me pica todo. acidez estomacal causada por las grandes cantidades de tereré ingeridas el dia de hoy. mi cerebro esta ultradespierto pero no tengo fuerza en el cuerpo. me pica todo. hace un rato alguien en la cuadra estaba escuchando chayanne muy fuerte. lo apagó y puso cumbia pero mi mente sigue escuchando los vestigios de torero. me pica todo.

[parasitic--saint]

hiii @huntunderironskies thank you so much for the tag! i had a lot of fun reading abt the edgy battle idol boy microgenre, i was only aware of hypnosis mic so learning abt more was fun!

tagging @zombified-queer @commiefrankiero @skeleton-keychain @knaveofpentacles and whoever wants to do this :3

Last Song Listened To: i've been in a cumbia mood this past week, so i have been rotating some groups for a while, pero nadie como mi Celso Piña <3

Currently Watching: I just finished the first season of Why Women Kill and it was so good!!!! I didnt like some characters but I loved how the stories meet with each other, i'm sad that apparently season 2 isnt as good...

Currently Reading: i'm trying to start Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia but i cant get past page 5 due to my lack of concentration and just being busy, maybe i'll try an audio book or really dedicate some time to reading.

Current Obsessions: The Hotel Podcast definitely!!! such a great horror podcast i love it so so much, everyone involved is incredible!!!! i have so much love for this podcast i'm relistening to it and the spanish version as well rn <3

[chaossequence]

Ximena:

Cumbia sonidera

Alternative metal

Gothic metal

Gothic rock

Cyber goth

Rancheras

[seasnipper]

ooh partners in time? that one was fun! i never finished it but it's nostalgic. baby mario and luigi…😭💜 and yess pixel art is amazing

chrono trigger is like that LOL, i love how it can be silly at times (shoutout to naga nuns and the frog with a sword). omg, kirby…did you have a favorite skill? mine were plasma and jet

wow, the music has a dracula feel and lots of enery!! reminds me of darkwave. i haven't listened to OSTs lately, but ace attorney has bangers (e.g investigation cornered).

honestly, i've been very into Los Bunkers-- do you have a favorite band?

my favorite skill was wheelie!! getting to zoom around was the BEST.

ace attorney is iconic, for sure. that's another one i need to get around to playing, someday

yes yes exactly!! that's why i love it. i listen to a lot of post-punk, darkwave, deathrock, and gothic rock. also, rock en español my beloved <3 shoutout a La Ley, Héroes del Silencio y Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

picking just one favorite band is too hard :(( en español probablemente tiene que ser o Caifanes o Los Prisioneros. pero también me encanta la cumbia, la bachata, la salsa y sus derivados con otros géneros. for music in English, my current faves are Diva Destruction, Rosetta Stone, La Scaltra, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, roughly in that order.

i'm all over the place with my music tastes, though. i like to sample a little bit of everything... i always say there's something for everyone in every music genre :D i hope it's alright if i share a cross section of ten songs from my spotify here:

si tienes un playlist o song recs que quisieras compartir, me encantaría echarle el oído 🙏

[landevirvai]

Entrevista a Vlad Landeros: <<Precursor del metal gótico en México>>

El metal gótico es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los géneros musicales que provoca opiniones divididas entre el público que disfruta escucharlo y las personas que sienten cierto tipo de aversión hacia dicho estilo sonoro, esto último se debe, principalmente, a que los "simples mortales" tienen la creencia de que los fanáticos de este tipo de música son satánicos por su vestimenta de color negro, sin embargo, no hay nada más lejos de la realidad, debido a que, por un lado, la indumentaria de esta tonalidad no es exclusiva del estilo gótico y, por el otro, porque hay un subgénero extremo del heavy denominado black metal en el que, sin reservas, sus letras se encuentran plagadas de mensajes de adoración a Satanás.

A este respecto, Vlad Landeros, quien es multinstrumentista, compositor, arreglista, productor y vocalista de gothic metal de tiempo completo relata en una breve entrevista cómo decidió seguir el camino de la música y, más concretamente, del metal gótico.

¿Quién te acercó al asombroso mundo de la música?  

Mi abuelo, él era muy bueno con la armónica, yo solía escucharlo tocar por las tardes cuando regresaba de la escuela.

¿En qué momento tomaste la decisión de dedicarte de lleno a la música?

Desde que tengo uso de razón he escrito letras de canciones, aunque no sabía nada acerca de armonías, escalas, afinaciones ni nada por el estilo, sin embargo, desde la primera vez que escuché música quedé maravillado con la gran cantidad de emociones que podía transmitirme, así que la elección fue sencilla, elegí seguir el camino la música por el resto de mis días.

¿A qué edad formaste tu primera banda?

Fue a los 13 años, estaba integrada por primos y amigos.

¿Cómo era la escena del metal gótico en los años noventa en México?

Era muy underground, es decir, las bandas se presentaban en lugares muy pequeños, escondidos y prácticamente los únicos que asistían a sus shows eran sus amigos y familiares, como consecuencia, muchos renunciaron a sus proyectos para dedicarse a otra cosa, algo que sí pagara las cuentas.

¿Qué significó el año 1997 para Vlad Landeros?

Fue un año muy especial para mí porque comencé a desarrollar musicalmente todas las ideas que ocupaban mi mente, es así como surge mi primer proyecto de metal gótico al que bauticé como Sentido Pésame, bajo este nombre cree canciones que hoy en día son considerados como grandes clásicos de la banda, entre los que se encuentran: Vampiro, Santa Agonía, Historia de Terror, solo por mencionar algunos.

¿En qué momento inicia la leyenda de Anabantha, la banda de metal gótico más importante en México?

Eso fue en el año 2000, bajo ese nombre aparecimos en el disco tributo a Luzbel con la canción Déjate ser.

¿Cuándo se grabó el primer disco de la banda ya con el nombre de Anabantha?

En 2001, llevó por título Letanías capítulo I y en él se incluían los temas Hojas Secas, Estigmas, Ay de la noche, Sangre, entre otras más.

¿Qué sientes al mirar atrás en el tiempo y ver que fuiste la figura principal del movimiento gótico?

Lo cierto es que fueron muchas las personas que contribuyeron por medio de su trabajo constante a que el metal gótico fuera conocido por una cantidad de gente cada vez mayor, en otras palabras, que este género musical gozara de más seguidores y foros para tocar. Por lo tanto, no puedo llevarme el crédito de forma individual.

¿Cómo consideras que es la situación actual del metal gótico en México en comparación con otros géneros musicales?

Desde mi punto de vista el metal pasa por una gran crisis, sobre todo, si se toma en cuenta que hoy en día los jóvenes prefieren escuchar otro tipo de propuestas, tales como: corridos tumbados, reguetón, salsa, cumbia, etc.

¿Crees que en un futuro cercano el metal gótico resurgirá de las cenizas y será popular como en los ya lejanos años noventa?

Claro que esto puede ser posible, ya que hoy en día existen una gran cantidad de bandas con bastante calidad, sin embargo, la música, en general, pasa por un momento complicado, uno en el que la tecnología hace posible que personas que no han tenido ningún tipo de formación musical puedan por medio de unos cuantos clics producir y distribuir sus propios materiales con una facilidad increíble. Lo malo de esto es que muchas de las veces las canciones o melodías no tiene calidad alguna y, aún así, parecen ser del agrado de multitudes.

[lvpercalia]

Cumbia gótica!!

[cavedwellermusic]

Mexico Week 2: Day 5: A Look at Mexico's World Fusion Scene

A journey into the mind altering world of Mexican world fusion

For day 5 of Mexico Week 2, James looks at Mexico's underappreciated and underrecognised world fusion scene. This is a music scene that incorporates a number of unique sounds and influences from both Mexico and wider Central and South America. You'll find everything from cumbia, indigenous folk, salsa, Latin and Afro-Carribean influences mixed with electronica, jazz, gothic, rock, downtempo and more. James looks at music from 4 unique artists/bands/collectives Janax Pacha and Cyma, América Afroindígena, MadZen and MUVA.

This article look at:

Janax Pacha & Cyma - Yokha (ft. Rodrigo Gallardo, Uji & Hajna), released on Cosmovision Records.

América Afroindígena - De Tierra y Agua.

MadZen - El Mestizo, released on Ixitia Records.

MUVA - YUM CH​Á​AK

[secret-ssociety]

a great part to being latin american, I think, is finding your culture somehow absorbed in americanisms. and I mean, being latin american, not 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. gen immigrant in the US, not knowing more than a few words in your parents' language and only having picked up that part from your identity when being latino became a trend on tiktok and only to the extent you could look a little like Maddy from Euphoria listening to Selena Quintanilla.

no. I mean growing up in the streets of México City in houses that aren't made of clay on top of an ancient aztec cemetery, as if all our continent wasn't itself an indigenous burial ground. I mean having deep within your veins the knowledge that fabelas are much more inclement than they look on whatever action movie that takes place around the carnival of Río. I mean squinting at the sight of Bogotá being presented as a tropical yet slightly desert-like town as if the city wasn't so cold it has its own type of flu.

I mean having the deep post-colonial experience of placing your forearm next to the mestizaje page of the history text book and think your skin colour is enough to tell the recipe of your mix. I mean that weird sense that all definitions of communism for us can't not be ambiguous because all the left wing leaders that have rised to power have been mysteriously killed and the ones who have succeeded are so bizarre they almost look like a satirical comedy on real life.

I mean looking for representation in cinema or literature and only finding the works of american authors who feel the need of advertising the fraction of latin blood on their veins (because only unbeknownst colonized people put percentages to their bloodline) who tell stories of a character with light brown skin who understands their parents' spanish but can't respond in the same tongue and live through the most whitewashed version of our myths, because for some reason la Llorona decided to pack her dead children into bags and move to Boston.

I know that the narrative of the immigrant and their children is important, but the narrative of the ones who stay is also important and it is strange to feel the need to say that latin people exist outside of the united states.

maybe this neo colonial rage comes from watching Encanto and having the deep colombian urge to gatekeep it from everyone whose ignorance could ruin it, but that urge was followed by the realization that I don't know enough about my own identity to know what I'm gatekeeping, because I'm looking for books of my land in articles written in english and that itself is proof that I, too, have fallen for it. raised by disney channel and nickelodeon, I have nurtured from my culture on the same level a white individual consumes from it.

and once I see the voice I've acquired, I cannot unsee it: it is my cousin who was born in the capital of vallenato, child to a woman from the very home of cumbia, who now as an adult dismisses all the music of his homeland because it could never offer him the same that Eminem offers him. it is my old friend who thinks watching the victoria's secret runway rubs off of her skin the wayúu ancestry.

and while I'm in this process of educating myself in art and wonder, I can't help but notice that out of all my stories, it is the ones which have a deep latin american influence, the ones filled with references to our culture that have the less engagement, almost as if they had passed under the radar.

and that angers me.

it angers me to the point I want not to write another character who wasn't born and raised in my country ever again, to the point I want to fill all my stories with hints that make everyone who reads them have to learn about the bloodiness of our myths, about the curses of our soil and the silent pains we inherit, to the point nothing I ever write can be read without the knowledge of how latin american magical realism has evolved into the gothic spectrum.

it angers me to the point I want to yell to everyone that the bandits that displaced the Madrigals from their village had a political affiliation that can't be ignored, that abuelo Pedro was murdered in a river because that's where we find our dead, that Macondo is and can only be in Colombia because the banana republic wasn't in central america.

it leads me to a state of wrath that I want to scream in people's faces about the Manigua, the spirit of the jungle that lures the white man into its foliage and feeds of their vital energy, and about the ancient belief that if we go into the river on holy thursday we'll turn into monsters that are half fish.

it makes me want to shove my history and my culture down the throat of everyone who consumes my content the same way other people's cultures has been pushed down mine.

[burlveneer-music]

XIXA - Genesis - southwestern gothic rock + cumbia with some gnarly electronic breaks; an amazing fusion of styles

The New Southwest is a raw, mystical place. A land of sun-bleached rock and crusty, windswept desert blues. Magick runs deep in the earth here; a sense of the macabre too. Scoundrels and coyotes roam free, howling at the moon, as a seductive, psychedelic rhythm echoes over the horizon. XIXA, Tucson’s dark, dusty gothic overlords, have their genesis here; it has nurtured them, and it is home. It’s also the setting for Genesis, the new album that sees the band return triumphantly to their roots, and give voice to their most primal instincts. By turns trippy and devilish, like a jam band getting high on Diá de Los Muertos, XIXA have always been uniquely attuned to the desert and their Latin influences. Combining gritty guitars, the bumping grind of Peruvian chicha, and dark, swirling psych-rock into a mesmerizing stew, the guitar-slinging six-piece have spent years exploring this sonic territory.

Genesis is a visceral listen, and very much formed by aesthetics. For its art, XIXA collaborated with celebrated fellow Tucsonan and longtime friend Daniel Martin Diaz on an illustration entitled “The Metaphysical Universe,” together creating the perfect visual representation of the themes explored on Genesis and the balance of darkness and beauty. Diaz’s work blends together ideas of Christian mythology like renewal and ascension, sciences like astronomy and anatomy, secret masonic symbols, a fair dose of hocus-pocus and war-of-the-worlds science fiction into a style all his own. The album is also transportive; entire worlds can be painted with Lopez and Sullivan’s voices and lyrical content. Edgar Allan Poe, 70s Spaghetti Westerns, and Narco cumbia are all influences. So too are chicha legends Los Shapis. A sense of foreboding hangs over the ten tracks, of danger foretold. All of this lends the music a more somber mood and gives it an edge, as if some unseen menace lurks in the shadows. But these songs also represent something else. They are the distillation of everything that makes XIXA who they are, and their most complete work to date. Rhythmically complex, and laced with timeless melodies, Genesis is by turns catchy, mysterious, and intense. Sullivan sings like Leonard Cohen re-imagined as a desert outlaw, and many tracks have a widescreen, cinematic feel – like Ennio Morricone infused with an inky gothic horror.

[kafkasmelomania]

Music rec roundup 09/13/2021 - 09/19/201

Albums:

Demo 2021 by Blindside (primary genre: hardcore punk)

Music of Burma: Burmese Guitar by U-Tin (primary genre: world music)

what’s on your mind? by WOOZE (primary genre: art rock)

Frantic Semantic EP by Grow Rich (primary genre: shoegaze)

Future Me Hates Me by The Beths (primary genre: power pop)

Cumbia Siglo XXI by Meridian Brothers (primary genre: cumbia)

Feel Nothing by We Set Sail (primary genre: alt rock)

Weekly features:

Goth Tuesday: “GOTHIC ROCK [ PARTY MIX - YAMI SPECHIE]”

Playlist Wednesday: “Back To The 80’s’ - Retro Wave [ A Synthwave/ Chillwave/ Retrowave mix ]”

Lo-fi Thursday: “midnight city. [lofi / jazz hop / chill mix]”

Favorite album this week: Frantic Semantic EP by Grow Rich

[dykecotomia]

top 3 ice cream flavors, what kind of kid where you in middle school, favourite tema de cumbia romántica

ofc flan is my first option, frutos rojos and some kind of chocolate

i was a nerdy little gothic kid, and i went to catholic school for a while which made me worse

finally, im not well versed enough in cumbia to pick a favorite

[polyglotinprogress]

pictured above: Caifanes. [1]

Where to start with Mexican rock music? There is an infinite amount. I can’t cover all of it, but we’re going to start with artists that I feel like are musically and culturally most significant--rock in Mexico is tied less strongly to national politics than rock in Argentina or Chile (in my opinion), but it is strongly tied to issues of identity. Mexican rock has a completely different sound than South American rock, using different vocabulary and instruments. Let’s look at a few bands. 

1. Carlos Santana (1947-).  Any discussion of Mexican rock would be incomplete without mentioning Santana. Santana was at Woodstock, and I associate his music more with the American hippie movement than the rock en español movement per se, but he, like many Americans, is not easily classifiable as just one thing. 

Many Americans still recognize songs like Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman, and Smooth, which have become classics. Santana is one of the few Mexican (-American) artists that has really crossed over into the American market and known by non-Hispanics; his music, unlike the other artists in this list, really represents a fusion of Latin rhythms with jazz, rock, and often, English (or mixed) lyrics. Abraxas is truly an indispensable album. [2]

2. Caifanes / Jaguares. The album Caifanes (1988) is, to me, one of the most fascinating experiments and best examples of what Mexican rock can be. Their “gothic cumbia” La Negra Tomasa is a take on an old song that stands out for its fusion of sounds...it feels like the Cure got lost south of the border. The lead singer, Saúl Hernández, comments: 

"De hecho, lo que más nos gustaba era abrir los conciertos con 'la Negra Tomasa', porque estaba el pelo, el look, todo de negro y la gente se esperaba algo más serio, no una cumbia, así rompías cualquier esquema y luego ya la gente ya esperaba lo que fuera del grupo." [3]. 

Hernández went on to form the group Jaguares after Caifanes broke up, and Bajo el Azul de Tu Misterio is typically the favorite album from that period. But the original 1988 album will always be close to my heart.  

3. Botellita de Jerez. This is another ‘80s band that I want to mention because--truly--what could be more Mexican than having an album called Naco es Chido? Their song Guacarock de la Malinche, with lyrics about dying your hair blond and the refrain “Pinche Malinche lo Cortés / no quita lo Cuauhtémoc”--could easily be sociology paper material. 

There’s a lot to unpack here. . . For starters, Naco is kind of like “tacky” or “cheesy,” but it’s more than that. . . Monica Cruz explains: “naco es sinónimo de indio (de los pueblos indígenas). El de Mexicanismos la define como algo o alguien que se percibe como vulgar, de mal gusto; sin urbanidad o civismo; de origen indígena, o de bajos recursos. . . [la palabra] se utilizó para representar un estereotipo de las personas de origen rural o humilde en zonas urbanas, en la que se encuentran completamente inadaptados” [read more]. And chido means “cool.” So this feels kind of like a subversive celebration of a group of people typically looked upon with disdain. Finally, of course, the story of La Malinche is pretty fundamental Mexican history reading.  

4. Café Tacvba. This is probably one of the most iconic Mexicans bands, for good reason. Rolling Stone named Re as #1 in their “the 10 greatest Latin rock albums of all time” list [4], because it really blends alternative rock with--well, just listen to the ironic norteña-fusion La Ingrata. 

Probably their most iconic song is Eres, although I’m also quite fond of Ojalá que llueva café, and Chilanga banda, the latter of which is honestly completely incomprehensible to me due to the crazy amount of slang (but hey--something to study!).  

5. Maná. I have to mention Jalisco’s Maná, because of its tremendous commercial success. I am not a big fan--personally I just think they sound very generic pop-rock-y or like U2-ish, not bad but kinda boring--however, they might be the most “accessible” of these bands to modern American ears. 

If you want something easy to listen to, their most popular songs are probably Mariposa Traicionera or En el muelle de San Blás.

Of course, there are a lot of other bands out there. Control Machete will give you a harder rock/hip-hop sound, Kinky is a great band for what I’d maybe call more like “techno-samba,” Zurdok/Chetes, Panda, Motel, Volován, and Zoé  all have cult followings for the alternative scene, and Porter is an interesting (read: ghostly and strange) up-and-coming indie group. All of these bands are a great way not just to learn vocabulary, but also a little something about history and culture. Enjoy!     

[bringinbackpod]

Interview with XIXA

Together with American Songwriter, we had the pleasure of interviewing XIXA over Zoom video! 

Formed in the heart of the deep American Southwest, XIXA are a guitar-slinging six-piece, uniquely attuned to the desert and their Latin roots. Combining gritty guitars, the bumping grind of chicha, and desert blues into a mesmerizing stew. They're also a band whose time had come to define what they call "The New Southwest"-intense, sun-bleached music shot through with an inky gothic horror that scans like the long-lost soundtrack to a cult, macabre B-movie Western.

Their debut record, 2016 "Bloodline," saw them inject heavy fuzz guitars and Latin pulses into sandy rock and roll, a potent mix that took them all over the world for two whole years. For 2019s EP "The Code" they blended psych-rock, cumbia, goth rock, cowboy folk and windswept desert blues into a dark, simmering occult.

Coming in early 2021 is the bands long-awaited sophomore album which finds XIXA delving deeper into their admiration for Peruvian chicha, extracting and refining their core, and giving voice to their most primal instincts. Informed by the bands rich history as songwriters and storytellers, they've carved a wider space for their psychedelic rock to swell, a place where scoundrels and coyotes roam free, and magic runs deep in the earth. It is the ultimate desert trip.

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[vampy-angel]

i had a dream once about me dancing cumbia but i was also wearing like dark gothic type clothing and i kinda wanna recreate that now