Meridian Brothers

Bogota's Meridian Brothers play irreverent, futurist electro-rock, melding historic, modern, and experimental Latin and Afro-Latin polyrhythms, rhythms, and genres. Composer/multi-instrumentalist Eblis Álvarez records Meridian Brothers' albums solo but performs with a band live. 2006's El Advenimiento del Castillo Mujer showcased "abstract folk music" -- mutant cumbia and Currulao -- inspired by experiments with traditional musical collectives. 2012's Desesperanza was supposed to be a salsa concept album but went far afield. 2014's Salvadora Robot revisioned vintage vallenato ...