Salvadora Robot (Soundway, 2014) debe ser uno de los estudios más importantes que han salido sobre el tropicalismo en los últimos años y el "El gran pájaro de los Andes" es una de sus más fuertes hipótesis. La hazaña rebasa las fronteras colombianas, Meridian Brothers es la exploración más provocativa que existe ahorita en el continente latinoamericano. A continuación veremos su más nuevo argumento: una entrega audiovisual para Soundway, su disquera.

Eblis Álvarez y su pandilla, los Meridian Brothers, han lanzado su más reciente arrebato, una versión de "El gran pájaro de los Andes" grabada ex profeso para este video-clip dirigido por Camila Camacho, con arte de Mateo Rivano, el artista visual colombiano responsable de colorear las subversiones de la trinidad post-tropical integrada por el Frente Cumbiero, Los Pirañas y Ondatrópica.

Con morbidez y sadismo Meridian Brothers atestigua este acto dadaísta, en blanco y negro, en el que un majestuoso cóndor protagoniza un episodio caníbal, carroñero, festivo e infantil. Abatido por un grupo de pequeños cóndores incautos que sin saber que no sólo están jugando, meten el dedo en la profunda llaga en el inconsciente latinoamericano. Recién salido de nuestro horno distorsionista favorito, lo nuevo de los Hermanos Meridianos.

Taken from the Meridian Brothers album 'Salvadora Robot' available on Soundway Records http://smarturl.it/Meridian

Idea: Mateo Rivano & Eblis Álvarez

Art & scenography: Mateo Rivano
Director,  Camera & edition: Camila Camacho -  https://vimeo.com/camilacam19
Photography Assistant: Paola Mutis

Main Actor: Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo)

Children actors: Ixchel del Mar Ojeda Ramirez , Zué Ojeda Ramirez, Sara Ponce de León Mantilla, Luciana Galeano Buitrago & Martina Galeano Buitrago 

Meridian Brothers: Eblis Álvarez, Alejandro Forero, María Valencia, César Quevedo & Damian Ponce de León
Taken from the Meridian Brothers album El Salvadora http://smarturl.it/Meridian

Costumes: Marcela Sanchez & Mateo Rivano

Music composed by Eblis Álvarez, mixed by Eblis Álvarez - www.meridianbrothers.com Click here to subscribe to Soundway Records -  http://www.bit.ly/sub2soundway 

MUSIC FROM PLANET EARTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Soundway Records was conceived in 2002 by label owner Miles Cleret whilst returning from Ghana with a hoard of dusty old 45s and LPs that had mostly not been heard outside the former Gold Coast since their original release. Planned on a whim the trip was not one of the carefully planned research expeditions that Miles would later embark on to any number of far-flung tropical destinations. On the contrary he left England with no idea of what he might find or that it might be the start of a career in the record business.

Although the label has it's roots in West Africa the scope has grown to include many other parts of the tropical belt with the aim of making available recordings that have in most cases never been available outside of their original countries and often not even there for over 30 years. Over the years Soundway's modus operandi has been to approach the music from a different angle from many of the more established "World Music" labels. By focusing on more obscure artists as well as big names and often concentrating on progressive recordings more in sync with Cleret's generation and background in DJ culture and dance-music. Styles have included afro-beat, funk, highlife, ethio-jazz, molam, calypso, cumbia, champeta, biguine, latin-jazz and disco as well as many unclassifiable recordings.

Since 2012 Soundway has begun releasing new material from a carefully selected handful of contemporary recording artists including acclaimed acts Ondatropica, Bomba Estereo and Ibibio Sound Machine

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Meridian Brothers - El Gran Pájaro De Los Andes

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Meridian Brothers atestigua este acto dadaísta en el que un majestuoso cóndor es abatido por un grupo de condorcitos incautos.

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