Proyecto Canibal Troilo (Ph: Carolina Sacco)
El tango, la electrónica y el rock conviven en el Proyecto Caníbal Troilo, un colectivo uruguayo formado por Hugo Rocca. Valiéndose de múltiples influencias y sonoridades, el músico, cantante y compositor ensambló esta original propuesta donde la música orillera busca adquirir una nueva dimensión.
Su álbum debut es “Montevideo Sala Vip”, un registro musical en CD y DVD con diez tangos y milongas editado por el sello Ayuí/Tacuabe. Continue reading
Retrocedonia Are Pablo Sassi, Sergio Astengo, Ana Garland & Alejandro Tuala
A band that got me quite intrigued, Retrocedonia is more pop than rock, but it can rock far more than your conventional poppy outfit. More than anything, it is a band whose sound melds old and new Uruguayan traditions in a very idiosyncratic way – they clearly know what has come and gone before and they make sure indicators are dropped all over the place, but not in a way that would devaluate what they are actually doing.
That is something tricky to pull off – to many younger listeners, the musical history of the country is often anything but cool or hip. They won’t necessarily listen to someone who plays an accordion and sings about the Mama Vieja (one of the most representative protagonists of Uruguayan Candombe) as this band does. Continue reading