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Chéjere (woodpecker) is a band that has made of music a celebration of joy during several years, a renew
testimony of tradition and a way of living.
Chéjere is interested in spreading and renovating the Mexican popular
music. It offers a combination of different expressions of Mexican son with rhythms of world music influence.
Chéjere develops arrangements of traditional, musical pieces as well as creates its own compositions.
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With this in mind, Chéjere has took it art to festivals, theaters, fandangos and forums of Mexico and other countries,
taking the listener on a timeless travel through emotions.
With the release of its first album “Chéjere con son”(2005) it has fusioned the sounds of Veracruz jarocho´s son
with other afro-latin rhythms, showing in each one of its songs,
the deep similitude existing between Veracruz musical area and those of the Caribbean or South America. |
This way, plenas, tonadas, zapateados, montunos and sones testify Chéjere´s long – road walk-trough. In this disc,
Chéjere his outlined its own musical believes, a playful and fertive scenic language and new musical idea born in Mexico
city that multicultural cosmopolite city but open to the world and facing it, as anyone can witness in its recent concerts. Although the band is conformed by six musicians (Natalia, Alonso, Javier, Mariel, Gabriel and Alvaro), others ones are invited to the project to create together music that not only can be listened but danced or that can be sang by everyone along with the band. Chéjere music is precisely the sum of individual stories that bring together Veracruz and Mexico city. Moreover it mixes important musical trajectories in the jazz, African music, afrocaribbean and afroperuvian music or flamenco music. With all this in mind, the project represents an approach to Mexico’s music and that of the world, with the conviction of finding diverse musical languages, fresh genuine sounds that express in several ways what we think and feel. Chéjere´s music is an adventure that has to be lived, a trip through world rhythms, in which the wonderful can happen and fantasy can be painted with truth. Because Chéjere is at the same time, a bit veracruzean, a bit Mexican, but also it is a bit of the world.
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| Chéjere are:
Alonso Borja: Harp,acoustic guitar,son guitar,cuban tres Guest musicians:
Ulises Martínez: Violin
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