February 2012
1 post
January 2012
8 posts
NPR Broadcast Appearance →
Alt.Latino on NPR (1/10/2012): “This Week On Alt.Latino: Brazilian Lo-Fi, Mexican Pop Pleasures And More”
Also catch us live in studio February 25 @ KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles on the show Travel Tips for Aztlan w/ Mark Torres.
More info about the radio show can be found here: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/149-travel-tips-for-aztlan.html
December 2011
7 posts
Super-Charged East La Chicano Group Quetzal...
Inspired by traditional son jarocho music of Veracruz, Mexico, and spiked with urban rhythms, rock and R&B, East LA Chicano group Quetzal will release ‘Imaginaries’, its 5th album and 1st for Smithsonian Folkways, on Feb. 28, 2012. Quetzal, called “provocative, heartfelt and strikingly original” by the LA Times and founded by guitarist Quetzal Flores, rose from...
Quetzal at Fais Do Do January 6, 2012 →
QUETZAL BIO
Quetzal is an ensemble of highly talented musicians, joined for the goal of creating good music that tells the social, cultural, political, and musical stories of people in struggle. Martha Gonzalez (lead singer, percussionist, and songwriter) calls it an “East LA Chican@ rock group,” summing up its rootedness in the complex cultural currents of life in the barrio, its social...
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“Songwriting is storytelling. A song as a sonic and literary manifestation is...”
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