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Radiokijada

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Gotan Project’s Christoph H. Müller and Peruvian percussionist Rodolfo Muñoz (Chinchivi, Sandunga) have teamed up to create RADIOKIJADA, a unique musical adventure based upon Afro Peruvian rhythms and culture, a crossover of powerful percussion, strong melodies, deep basslines and contemporary production methods.
Afro Peruvian music is a unique blend of Spanish, Andean and African traditions. It’s history started tragically: with the forced movement of slaves that ended in South America in 15th/16th century. For a very long time forgotten by the audiences, it plays today an important role in Peru and has started to be known and appreciated internationally. Thanks to Afro Peruvian artists like Nicomedes and Victoria de Santa Cruz or the Vazquez family, rhythms like Lando, Zamacueca, Lamento, Panalivio, Pregon and Festejos have been kept alive and are very popular today. They are played by the new generation of musicians in Peru, and some of them participate in RadioKijada.
RadioKijada have a contemporary approach to Afro Peruvian music whilst respecting its traditions. They confront Afro Peruvian percussion instruments like the Cajon Peruano or the emblematic Quijada (donkey’s jaw bone) with other traditional instruments like the Tambor Bata, and with European tradition of Electronica and Fusion, hence coming up with a new breed of popular dance music, very rhythmic and percussive but also melodic and vocal. The fusion of cultures, which started five centuries ago, goes on, and there are still many things to know and discover, not only for Peruvians but everybody.

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Member Since: 9/1/2006
Band Website: www.radiokijada.com
Band Members: Christoph H. MUELLER (Gotan Project, Roy Dubb)Rodolfo MUNOZ( Sandunga, Chinchivi)..
Sounds Like: Nothing else...
Record Label: march:music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

RADIOKIJADA's first album gets 4 stars from The Guardian

RADIOKIJADA get a **** (4stars) review from THE GUARDIAN"This set of "new sounds from black Peru" is the work of two very different musicians: Peruvian composer and percussionist Rodolfo Muñoz and Chr...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:32:00 GMT

RADIOKIJADA album out now in the UK

RADIOKIJADA's first album "Nuevos Sonidos Afro Peruanos" (New Sounds from Black Peru) is now out in the UK and available in all good record shops!Release in the rest of the world coming soon.
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:31:00 GMT

RADIOKIJADA now on ITUNES worldwide

RADIOKIJADA's "Agua e'Nieve" EP is now available on ITUNES worldwide!A full album will follow end of March 2009. Stay tuned!
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:56:00 GMT