Colombian rock

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Juanes is currently recognized as one of the top icons of Colombian rock.

Colombian Rock is a generic term that describes the different types of rock music from Colombia, the most common being based on Rock en Español.

[edit] History

The exact moment in which Colombian rock was born is difficult to trace. However, it is clear that at some time in the 1960s a boom in rock music happened in Colombia, as a result of globalization, the influence of the foreign music of that decade, and opposition to the Vietnam war, Colombia has great Artists and Bands (colrock.com), including solo artists like superstars Juanes and Shakira, or bands like The Monas, first Colombian band ever to have a top ten single on american charts and first Colombians ever to headline at the SXSW (South by South West) Festival in Autin, TX. Also great bands like Ekymosis (Juanes), Aterciopelados,Rico,Cabas, Andres Cepeda.

Bogotá, Medellín and Cali were the cities where this movement started to grow, and they remain today as the main 'nests' for new groups and styles. Colombian rock is grouped with all Rock en español, a movement led by Argentinian rock and Mexican rock.

[edit] Elsewhere

In the 1950s, Medellín, Antioquia, was a middle-sized city in a fast process of industrialization. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were the first ambassadors of American rock music. The society of the region, more familiar with one of the main folk musics of Colombia, bambuco, received it with mixed opinions until it became established as part of youth culture.^[1]

This musical movement was almost unrecognized in other parts of the country, due to the ongoing boom in literature which marked a "new age" in Colombian culture for the next half century.

Although Colombia has many quality bands, the rock scene is beginning to grow as an important part of the Latin American and world music industry. One band Rock band has made the jump and searched for world class sound and production. ANTIPODA, www.antipoda.net a band from Bogotá D.C., that after more than 10 years of constant work, looked for the expertise of one of the most importat producers of the rock industry, the swedish producer Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah, In Flames, Soilwork, Behemoth, Dark Funeral, El Caco, Stonegard, Scarve, AqME, Strapping Young Lad, Fredrik Thordendal, Darkane, Andromeda, Raised Fist, The Duskfall...). The contact was established in December 2006 and during 2007 the band worked on the logistics and the music that they were suposed to record at Dug Out Productions AB, Uppsala, Sweden. www.myspace.com/dugoutproductions The band traveled to Sweden on new years eve 2008 and for two months worked on the production of the album called ¨MANIFESTO¨

The band is currently working on the album artwork with illustrator Dung Hoang, (Dream Theater - ¨Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence¨) and the audio-visual material that will be released along with the album, as well as the Studio Diaries of the recording process published on Youtube

Read more about the band, see the Studio Diaries, and leave comments here: www.antipoda.net
You can check the pictures of the whole process here: ANTIPODA Flickr
Check the band's Youtube page here: ANTIPODA Youtube
Be a fan of the band at Facebook here: ANTIPODA Facebook