Are you ready to guarachar? If you’re based in the UK, ¡Como No! will give you the opportunity to dance, have fun and enjoy the red-blooded norteño sound of Orkesta Mendoza.
It will all happen between the 21st and 26th of April, when Sergio Mendoza and his banda will give life to an intense UK tour. Six gigs in six days, from London (Rich Mix) part of La Linea 2017 to Cambridge (Corn Exchange), stopping over in Leeds (Belgrave Music Hall), Manchester (Band on the Wall), Gateshead (Sage Two) and Brighton (Komedia).
The 7-piece band from Tucson is the best possible answer to any nation’s border wall policy. They proudly embody the Tex-Mex tradition, drawing fully from North and South of the US/Mexico border, and embodying both sets of cultural expression. If during one song, you’ll follow the tiempo – dancing to the Latin American soul of the rhythm, on the following one you’ll bang your head – matching its rock drum beats.
Cumbia, mambo and traditional norteño vibes will go hand in hand with psychedelia and alt-rock: It will be a six-day long road party! And if you don’t know what guarachar means…don’t bother to take out your English-Spanish dictionary: You’ll learn it as soon enough, as your feet, legs and hips will unconsciously begin to move in time with Orkesta Mendoza’s sound.
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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]](https://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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