Ryst, si og servér: Kumbia Queers er tilbage i Danmark

Efter næsten tre års tvungen pause vender det stærke argentinske band tilbage til Europa og Danmark. Denne aften i Krudttønden vil de forføre os med deres cocktail af cumbia, rock og hiphop tilsat kritiske og reflekterende tekster. Med i tasken har de deres nye album Fiesteria, som forbliver loyal over for cumbia-genren, men som også går på opdagelse i mere elektroniske vibes og urbane stilarter.

Historien om Cumbia Queers går tilbage til år 2007, hvor en gruppe musikere i Buenos Aires kedede sig i punkrockscenen og besluttede sig for at lave noget helt andet musik: Cumbia. Hvad der startede som noget, som bare var for sjov, førte til sidst til dannelsen af ​​Kumbia Queers.

De beskriver deres stil som 1000% Tropi Punk – en vild blanding af afrocubanske og latinamerikanske cumbia-påvirkninger, queerness og punkånd. I en tid, hvor de elektroniske scener og verdensmusikscenerne fra New York til Europa er i gang med at opdage cumbia-musikken, nyfortolker musikerne latinamerikansk hjertesorg og hudfletter macho-kulturen, og blander deres helt egen cocktail af sjov og politik.

In English

Shake, strain and serve: Kumbia Queers are back in Denmark

After nearly three years of forced break the powerful band from Buenos Aires returns to Europe and Denmark to seduce us with their cocktail of cumbia, rock, and hip hop, with critical and reflective lyrics that talk about fun, love and it's opposite, and their passion for creative leisure and dance. They will present their new album „Fiesteria“ which remains loyal to the Cumbia, but also walks on new paths including more electronical vibes and urban styles.

The story goes back to the year 2007 where these musicians got bored of the punk rock scene, and decided to do something completely different: Cumbia. What started out as something just for fun, led eventually to the formation of Kumbia Queers.

They describe their style as 1000% Tropi Punk – a wild mixture of Afro-Cuban and Latin American Cumbia influences, queerness and punk spirit. At a time when the electronic and world music scenes from New York to Europe are in the process of discovering Cumbia music, the musicians are reinterpreting Latin American heartache and macho posturings, bringing fun and politics together in their own wild style.

"Kumbia Queers not only masterfully wove harder edge rhythms and danceable grooves, but they also did it with undeniable showmanship. There’s a little bit of a musical cultural shock when you first see the punk-rock clad women suddenly synchronize their dance moves on stage—cumbia style. There was head banging and hip swaying. It’s not your grandmother’s cumbia." (austin360.com)