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Los Espíritus are one of the best bands in Argentina. I discovered them during COVID quarantine times, awesome band. Check out their albums in YT.
I Went To See A Band...
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Hey Ries, may I ask how you find out about these gigs?
They align a lot with my desire to see something more original than punk rock or rock nacional. I know there’s plenty in BA, but it’s hard to stay informed.
Subscribing to this thread to learn about these acts, but of course to know (how to know) about them beforehand would be even better.
They align a lot with my desire to see something more original than punk rock or rock nacional. I know there’s plenty in BA, but it’s hard to stay informed.
Subscribing to this thread to learn about these acts, but of course to know (how to know) about them beforehand would be even better.
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People always ask me how to know who is playing. 12 or so years ago, there actually was a website that aggregated upcoming gigs- but it made no money, and the rich guys bankrolling it pulled the plug.
So the answer is- you have to work at it.
I find Instagram is indispensable- Argentines use it because its free, and easy. Nobody wants to pay IT guys to update websites every week, and many clubs and venues mostly use Instagram much more than their minimal websites.
The City of Buenos Aires website does show some, mostly free events.
turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar
Buenos Aliens still exists, with some techno and house coverage.
Passline, the online ticket site, is actually a pretty good place to see who is playing, particularly bigger and more well known acts.
I follow a bunch of venues, and a bunch of musicians, and every day or so, I do a bit of scrolling.
For bigger acts, in large clubs, I follow:
Niceto Club
La Trastienda
La Tangente
C Art Media
Konex
For jazz,
Thelonius
BeBop Club
Virasoro Bar
La Grande
Many of my favorite shows are at small centros cultural
These change from year to year, depending on who is booking, but, currently, my faves are:
Roseti Espacio
Planta Inclan
ArtLab Pro
Imprenta Chilavert
Casa Brandon
Suena Washington
but new ones pop up all the time, and shows are often in non-official spaces, too.
So I follow a few dozen musicians at least.
If you like a musican, they will have an instagram, and announce shows there.
In true Argentine style, a week in advance is a lot.
Many times I see shows come up with a day or two advance notice.
Nobody is getting rich on playing music here, except maybe Catriel and Paco, so none of them work really hard on promotion.
So the answer is- you have to work at it.
I find Instagram is indispensable- Argentines use it because its free, and easy. Nobody wants to pay IT guys to update websites every week, and many clubs and venues mostly use Instagram much more than their minimal websites.
The City of Buenos Aires website does show some, mostly free events.
Qué hacer esta semana en Buenos Aires
¿Estás pensando en viajar a Buenos Aires? La Ciudad te espera con muchas propuestas culturales, gastronómicas y artísticas. Como siempre, la semana en un clic.
Musica Electronica: Buenos Aliens
Buenos Aliens: Música electrónica en Argentina. Notas a djs, agenda de eventos. House, techno, trance.
www.buenosaliens.com
I follow a bunch of venues, and a bunch of musicians, and every day or so, I do a bit of scrolling.
For bigger acts, in large clubs, I follow:
Niceto Club
La Trastienda
La Tangente
C Art Media
Konex
For jazz,
Thelonius
BeBop Club
Virasoro Bar
La Grande
Many of my favorite shows are at small centros cultural
These change from year to year, depending on who is booking, but, currently, my faves are:
Roseti Espacio
Planta Inclan
ArtLab Pro
Imprenta Chilavert
Casa Brandon
Suena Washington
but new ones pop up all the time, and shows are often in non-official spaces, too.
So I follow a few dozen musicians at least.
If you like a musican, they will have an instagram, and announce shows there.
In true Argentine style, a week in advance is a lot.
Many times I see shows come up with a day or two advance notice.
Nobody is getting rich on playing music here, except maybe Catriel and Paco, so none of them work really hard on promotion.
Thanks. Instagram I kinda knew is the way to go, but I don't really want to follow and peruse hundreds of accounts. Maybe if I did it using a separate IG account of mine... You're totally right though that ultimately results take effort.
Thanks for the venue recommendations. Some I knew, some I didn't.
Thanks for the venue recommendations. Some I knew, some I didn't.
Funny, I am running one of these sites myself as now an AI experiment: bandashoy.com . As you can see, its sources of events are limited at this time. I'm working on curating the list of venues better and expanding the venues. The site works by having an AI read their Instagram accounts and interpreting dates and artists from the posters. My biggest problem is that the AI Instagram scraping costs more, the more venues I add.
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The very first time I visited Buenos Aires, in early 2007, I walked into a small record store in SanTelmo, and asked the guys working there what I should buy.
They asked me what international acts I liked, and we talked about music for a few minutes, and they told me- Buy these three.
JuanaMolina- Son
Axel Krygier- Echale Semilla
Gaby Kerpel-Carnabailito
So I did.
That was the beginning of my collecting Argentine music.
Since then, I have bought around 400cds of Argentine music, and another couple hundred digital downloads.
But I still love all three of those first artists I learned about, and I have seen each of them live, many times.
In mid December, we went to see Gaby play at a magical small centro cultural in the Isla de la Paternal, a place called Casa Gomez. Its a Casa Chorizo, a small deep house, where they present poetry, classes and workshops, theater, music, and dance.
It was a beautiful warm night, and the show was outside in the terraza. Probably 25 people there.
The Isla is geographically isolated, a small neighborhood of one and two story buildings, with a few restaurants including Santa Ines and Tita La Vedette, which are both great, and some low key artist studios that occasionally put on shows. Its quiet and losti n time.
Gaby has not been playing live much at all lately- the last time we saw him was in January of 2024, when he did a DJ set at the ZZK reunion.
He has kind of reinvented himself, as one does when one hits 60, in a quieter, more personal vein, and he was playing a lot of new songs for the first time in public, still crib sheeting some of the lyrics.
He called it “Ideas nuevas, Ideasviejas”
He was also experimenting with a series of prepared videos he was triggering as the songs went along, and duetting with videos of his young daughter singing.
There were a lot of moving parts in the performance- he was recording loops of himself singing, playing wooden flutes, and a charenga, then singing and playing key sover them, so there were a few minor flaws, but nobody cared- the music was sweet and personal and honest, and he actually got quite dressed up, wearing a white shirt, tie, and sport coat.
It was intimate and very nice, with a lot of friends and family present.
Here is a link to a snippet from instagram.
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They asked me what international acts I liked, and we talked about music for a few minutes, and they told me- Buy these three.
JuanaMolina- Son
Axel Krygier- Echale Semilla
Gaby Kerpel-Carnabailito
So I did.
That was the beginning of my collecting Argentine music.
Since then, I have bought around 400cds of Argentine music, and another couple hundred digital downloads.
But I still love all three of those first artists I learned about, and I have seen each of them live, many times.
In mid December, we went to see Gaby play at a magical small centro cultural in the Isla de la Paternal, a place called Casa Gomez. Its a Casa Chorizo, a small deep house, where they present poetry, classes and workshops, theater, music, and dance.
It was a beautiful warm night, and the show was outside in the terraza. Probably 25 people there.
The Isla is geographically isolated, a small neighborhood of one and two story buildings, with a few restaurants including Santa Ines and Tita La Vedette, which are both great, and some low key artist studios that occasionally put on shows. Its quiet and losti n time.
Gaby has not been playing live much at all lately- the last time we saw him was in January of 2024, when he did a DJ set at the ZZK reunion.
He has kind of reinvented himself, as one does when one hits 60, in a quieter, more personal vein, and he was playing a lot of new songs for the first time in public, still crib sheeting some of the lyrics.
He called it “Ideas nuevas, Ideasviejas”
He was also experimenting with a series of prepared videos he was triggering as the songs went along, and duetting with videos of his young daughter singing.
There were a lot of moving parts in the performance- he was recording loops of himself singing, playing wooden flutes, and a charenga, then singing and playing key sover them, so there were a few minor flaws, but nobody cared- the music was sweet and personal and honest, and he actually got quite dressed up, wearing a white shirt, tie, and sport coat.
It was intimate and very nice, with a lot of friends and family present.
Here is a link to a snippet from instagram.
••• Folclonica ••• on Instagram: "☀️Una partecita del Soy ono Soy del Viernes en Casa Gomez☀️Gracias a los que asistieron y compartieron la experiencia de estar buscando un nuevo rumbo, y gracias a este hermoso lugar que me abrió sis puertas✨"
Conectamos con amigos y paisajes naturales en un hermoso entorno que inspira la búsqueda de un nuevo rumbo. La casa de amigos es un lugar ideal para unir pasión por la naturaleza y el espacio para reflexionar y buscar tu propósito. Lleva a tus amigos a descubrir los paisajes naturales de ensueño...
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January is slow. I am behind on the last thing I saw in December.
We went to the final night of the season at Suena Washington.
The people who run it leave Argentina in the summer, so it wont start again until April.
This evening was Matías Lourenço (aka LOWRENZ) and his band and invitados.
Vocals by Julia Moscardini and Miranda Myndlis, Mariano Sarra on piano, Ramiro Flores on winds, Ramiro Farb on guitar, and Fermín Merlo on drums.Lowrenz mostly plays bass, sings, and doubles on guitar.
I have seen him play before, he is very funky, versatile and fun. The players were all heavy weights- Ramiro Flores, who I have seen dozens of times, is an amazing horn player, the drummer was great, and all the vocals were just right.
Its kind of jazz, but often funkier.
I cant find a link of him playing, except spotify, which I dont use...
But he is on spotify and apple music.
We went to the final night of the season at Suena Washington.
The people who run it leave Argentina in the summer, so it wont start again until April.
This evening was Matías Lourenço (aka LOWRENZ) and his band and invitados.
Vocals by Julia Moscardini and Miranda Myndlis, Mariano Sarra on piano, Ramiro Flores on winds, Ramiro Farb on guitar, and Fermín Merlo on drums.Lowrenz mostly plays bass, sings, and doubles on guitar.
I have seen him play before, he is very funky, versatile and fun. The players were all heavy weights- Ramiro Flores, who I have seen dozens of times, is an amazing horn player, the drummer was great, and all the vocals were just right.
Its kind of jazz, but often funkier.
I cant find a link of him playing, except spotify, which I dont use...
But he is on spotify and apple music.
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I became a fan of Tonolec it 2008 or so, not long after the band was founded by Charo Bogarin and Diego Perez, from Formosa and Chaco, respectively. It was, from the beginning, an homage to indigenous argentine musics, but brought forward into the 21st century by the musical range of Perez.
by the late twenty teens, they more or less ceased performing, and Perez began a project of his own called Nacion Ekeko, which like Tonolec, incorporates a lot of wichi, and other indigenous South American musics, and has drawn on repeated trips to the Andes, all the way up to Peru and Ecuador, to learn more.
But it also incorporated a lot of modern instrumentation, computers, synths, and beats.
I have seen Tonolec live several times, and Perez solo at least 4 or 5 times as Nacion Ekeko, usually a combination of live instruments and prerecorded beats.
Very recently, he began to perform as Nacion Ekeko completely acoustically- and we recently went to see him do a show in Palermo.
It was at the unfortunately named Casa Lolita- if you try to search for it on Instagram, you get a polite message telling you how to seek counseling for illegal and inappropriate sexual feelings.
You have to learn the actual instagram address and type it in exactly...
The venue has nothing to do with Humbert Humbert or Nabakov, its a small house converted to a cultural center, with a bar serving a few drinks and nice homemade treats.
The audience was perhaps 30 people, some in chairs, some on the floor, a very intimate and personal space to see music in.
Perez had several guest musicians sitting in on various songs, including a lap steel guitar player, a horn player, an accordian, wooden flutes, and other guitarists.
Many of the songs were about the original, pre-colonization South America, the land, the people, and the culture.
It was folk music, but folk music kind of like David Crosby, spiritual in a post modern kind of way.
It was a wonderful night, nice people, great music.
Perez is playing a lot around Argentina these days, but like most things Argentine, not much publicity- you really have to go to his instagram page to find where and when.
I know he will be playing in early april at a folk festival in the mountains outside of Cordoba, and on the 11th, in Maschwitz, near Pilar.
Here he is, live, last year, in transition to acoustic, but still with some electronics. (the flute player in this video is the same one we saw)
by the late twenty teens, they more or less ceased performing, and Perez began a project of his own called Nacion Ekeko, which like Tonolec, incorporates a lot of wichi, and other indigenous South American musics, and has drawn on repeated trips to the Andes, all the way up to Peru and Ecuador, to learn more.
But it also incorporated a lot of modern instrumentation, computers, synths, and beats.
I have seen Tonolec live several times, and Perez solo at least 4 or 5 times as Nacion Ekeko, usually a combination of live instruments and prerecorded beats.
Very recently, he began to perform as Nacion Ekeko completely acoustically- and we recently went to see him do a show in Palermo.
It was at the unfortunately named Casa Lolita- if you try to search for it on Instagram, you get a polite message telling you how to seek counseling for illegal and inappropriate sexual feelings.
You have to learn the actual instagram address and type it in exactly...
The venue has nothing to do with Humbert Humbert or Nabakov, its a small house converted to a cultural center, with a bar serving a few drinks and nice homemade treats.
The audience was perhaps 30 people, some in chairs, some on the floor, a very intimate and personal space to see music in.
Perez had several guest musicians sitting in on various songs, including a lap steel guitar player, a horn player, an accordian, wooden flutes, and other guitarists.
Many of the songs were about the original, pre-colonization South America, the land, the people, and the culture.
It was folk music, but folk music kind of like David Crosby, spiritual in a post modern kind of way.
It was a wonderful night, nice people, great music.
Perez is playing a lot around Argentina these days, but like most things Argentine, not much publicity- you really have to go to his instagram page to find where and when.
I know he will be playing in early april at a folk festival in the mountains outside of Cordoba, and on the 11th, in Maschwitz, near Pilar.
Here he is, live, last year, in transition to acoustic, but still with some electronics. (the flute player in this video is the same one we saw)
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I wanted to recommend these events- Espacio Norah is the former home of Borge's sister, Norah, and its a small artspace now.
Its a comfortable apartment across from Galeria Pacifico, and it fits 20 to 30 people, and the concerts are intimate and wonderful.
You would need to reserve, but its well worth it.
The music is usually mildly experimental, could be influenced by ambient, jazz, or classical, or folk, and of course varies from artist to artist, but its usually quite beautiful, and all the musicians are extremely accomplished. Given that its a normal sized living room, they tend to adapt their performances to the space and audience.
Every thursday in April, starting this week.
A magical experience.
unfortunatlely, in our modern world, contact is by instagram or email
email- [email protected]
instagram- @espacio_norah
Its a comfortable apartment across from Galeria Pacifico, and it fits 20 to 30 people, and the concerts are intimate and wonderful.
You would need to reserve, but its well worth it.
The music is usually mildly experimental, could be influenced by ambient, jazz, or classical, or folk, and of course varies from artist to artist, but its usually quite beautiful, and all the musicians are extremely accomplished. Given that its a normal sized living room, they tend to adapt their performances to the space and audience.
Every thursday in April, starting this week.
A magical experience.
unfortunatlely, in our modern world, contact is by instagram or email
email- [email protected]
instagram- @espacio_norah
