Mario Galeano Toro... Frente Cumbiero

Mario Galeano Toro -- one half of Colombia's hottest musical export
Ondatrópica and musical mastermind behind the Colombian band Frente
Cumbiero takes us on on a trip through the rich heritage of Colómbian
music and performs a seriously cool track on MASCHINE.




" Mario Galeano Toro, leader of the Bogotá band Frente Cumbiero, is well
versed in the variegated history of cumbia, from its Afro-Caribbean
origins to its modern electronic manifestations.



He is one of a relative
handful of producers who are spreading cumbia in multiple geographical
directions. Holding tight to a music that many of his compatriots had
abandoned in favor of rival forms like vallenato, Galeano has sought to
present his own experimental cumbia to diverse audiences in Europe and
elsewhere, working with master remixers such as Mad Professor, who was
able to collaborate with Frente Cumbiero thanks to a British Council
grant. While the alternative music scene in Colombia has re-embraced the
form, Galeano hopes that this process ends with a re-popularizing of
cumbia among the Colombian general public.



An avid collector of (now
rare) vintage cumbia on vinyl, he has started a label, Salgaelsol, whose
mission is to digitize and reissue recordings that are being rapidly
lost from circulation." (BOMB Magazine)





Video produced, filmed and edited by Luis Antonio Delgado.