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The sounds of one of the best Latin rock bands, Cafe Tacuba, the mestizo music of Orchestre National de Barbes, and mixtures of Señor Coconut Salsa will kick off at the fourteenth edition of the festival La Mar de Musicas Cartagena.
Will the Mexican rockers line the first ring at the Auditorio Parque Torres, morning around 23:00.
From there, more than 400 musicians in 40 concerts, will pass through five stages during the 22 days of the festival.
The opening night will be broadcast throughout Spain for Radio 3.
Creating a more representative group of alternative rock in Spanish born north of Mexico City.
Proceeds from the combination of musical ambitions enriched by elements of the vast cultural wealth that Mexico has.
Four high school friends founded in 1989, Café Tacvba, creating a concept that showed their roots from the name, taken from a traditional restaurant in the city of Mexico to the adoption of instruments typical of Mexican folk music of certain regions, before untouchable within the rock.
Café Tacvba broke schemes since its inception, in which it was doing with thousands of loyal fans even before they recorded an album.
When in 1992 they signed with Warner Music and released their first production, the company did not believe the heady record sales, never hope some guys dressed in the style of Indian and fusion music so captivated the public.
Was it all: the constant makeovers and original, as well as the name of his vocals, the sounds they have created, the old hits that reinvented giving new hierarchy and entering them in the sometimes biased approach of the rock audience, a clever musical idea consistent with their ideology and their actions, the same that led the group to establish itself as one of the bands with greater prestige and influence in Latin rock.
With your hard Reyes / Yo Soy, tacuba became the cover of rock magazine as America's most imp ortant Rolling Stones, Spin and Raygun.
In Mexico gathered in two nights to 35 thousand fans at the Sports Palace.
His latest album, 'But', produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, brings to La Mar de Músicas, park your most folk music and more rockers performing their winks.
After the Mexicans will come the turn of French music of the Orchestre National de Barbes.
Barbes is undoubtedly the most famous Parisian neighborhood across the Mediterranean.
A fascinating neighborhood for over fifty years, those who attempt the French adventure.
So it was only a matter of time that the neighborhood had its own group flagship.
Orchestre National de Barbes founded in 1995, mixes North African styles, the rai-reggae and Gnawa music.
Was formed by the meeting of experienced musicians, some even with solo albums recorded with success, they wanted to show the wealth of sounds from Africa, including both the north and land starting from the Sahara Desert, with emphasis on the rhythms holidays and on the basis of tradition to adapt to the sounds of today.
ONB members stopped by prejudice and resentment that often have Moroccans and Algerians to make music together.
Come to the festival to present his third studio, Alik, after eight years of silence.
To conclude the evening, and by the Arab castle everyone asked "Who said that a German can not dance salsa?
Uwe Schmidt ('Senor Coconut', born in Frankfurt, Germany) is a DJ, graphic designer and producer of electronic music.
In 1996, bored by European dance music, he moved to Santiago de Chile to explore Latin music.
Funny soon adopted the pseudonym of 'Mr. Coconut ", under which he released several albums.
In their work transforms Mickel Jackson's hit songs, The Doors, Deep Purple Sade or bachata, merengue, guaguanco or cha-cha-cha.
Surely everyone will dance.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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