Orkesta Mendoza is led by Sergio Mendoza, the multi talented, long time member and co-producer of the South-western musical phenomenon Calexico. Those in the know will already be aware of Orkesta Mendoza’s ability to fashion a borderless sound that crosses the Americas while laying down simmering slabs of folkloric cumbia and mambo, all with a tex-mex psychedelic edge.
Orkesta Mendoza bring their latest album Vamos a Guarachar (released by Glitterbeat less than a month ago) all the way from Tucson Arizona via the dusty deserts of Mexico to the Vaults in central London as part of the Wahaca Day of The Dead Fiesta. Get ready for a hip swivelling, psychedelic, and horn fuelled journey into the heart of Mexican cumbia served with generous side orders of ranchero, merengue, and psychedelic pop, tempered with analogue electronica.
In this unique venue in the underground world of Waterloo station, Wahaca are putting together a blistering nocturnal celebration of Modern Mexico. They will take you on an agave fuelled fiesta where the living come to celebrate the dead through music, performance, art and street food.
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How best to shake off the dust from down Calexico way? Sergio Mendoza has the answer- give your listeners a good time to rival tequila as Mexico’s best export, as on Curandero. What follows is perhaps best described as a more authentic take on the faux-Tex/Mex border radio sound (at…
Artists: Orkesta Mendoza
As you probably have already understood, we genuinely love Orkesta Mendoza sound… So we made our way upstream and tried to understand where their artistic inspiration comes from. We asked Sergio Mendoza (the banda leader) to reveal to us some of his music influences and most-beloved tunes and the following playlist represents,…
Artists: Orkesta Mendoza
La Linea 2017 gets underway tonight with Julieta Venegas and Gizmo Varillas at Barbican. Since 2001, the festival has brought a generous touch of Iberian and Latin American rhythms and dances to London and this edition won’t be an exception. Have a glimpse of what awaits you in the next 12 days and…
Artists: Antonio Zambujo , Eliane Correa , Gizmo Varillas , Juanita Euka , Julieta Vanegas , London Lucumi Choir , Orkesta Mendoza , Toto La Momposina
In a month’s time, on the 21st of April, London will be blown away by the sound of Orkesta Mendoza. Rich Mix and La Linea 2017 will be hosting the first date of the band’s UK tour and its energetic vibes built on a Pan-American repertoire that welcomes Latin American styles and…
Artists: Orkesta Mendoza
They say the show must go on. After a freak outbreak of Norovirus meant the Wahaca Day of the Dead Fiesta was cancelled, a last minute bit of rescheduling and help from the lovely guys at Movimientos meant that the show finally could go on at Hootananny tonight. Orkesta Mendoza…
Artists: Orkesta Mendoza![Album Review: Orkesta Mendoza – ¡Vamos A Guarachar! [Glitterbeat Records, 7th October 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/a0442170445_10-620x620.jpg)
Laying down simmering slabs of cumbia and mambo, tempered with a folkloric, tex-mex psychedelic edge, Orkesta Mendoza brings you their latest album all the way from Tucson Arizona. Lead by musical polymath, Sergio Mendoza, who is also a member and co-producer of Southwestern music legends Calexico at the helm they…
Artists: Orkesta Mendoza
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