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Gratis el mail y el jardín interior El éter y el baile del electrón
Es gratis el fuego, su eterno crepitar es gratis el verbo, la lava del
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Gratis las nubes que traen tempestad los chakras los ojos del huracán
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inmaterial
La fantasía, los prismas de luz el relámpago y su
electricidad

Perform at United Nations

ATERCIOPELADOS to perform at United Nations general assembly hall on october 23rd

Aterciopelados Recently Returned Home To Bogota After Their First-Career Tour Of Australia

The Colombian Music Icons Will Join A Special “Tribute To Peacekeeping”
Concert With A Star-Studded Lineup Of Performers Including Harry Belafonte, Roberta Flack and Angelique Kidjo

Aterciopelados Will Play Several Songs Including Human Rights Anthem “The Price Of Silence,” The Group’s Amnesty International Benefit Track Re-Worked From “Cancion Protesta”

Watch “The Price Of Silence” Video Featuring Aterciopelados With Artists Like Julieta Venegas, Stephen Marley AndNatalie Merchant In The U.N. General Assembly Hall

Colombian music icons Aterciopelados will perform a special concert at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on October 23rd as part of “United Nations Day.” The United Nations and non-profit organization Culture Project present a “Tribute To Peacekeeping” concert as Aterciopelados will join artists like Harry Belafonte, Roberta Flack and Angelique Kidjo to celebrate the anniversary of the 1945 charter of the United Nations. Most recently, Aterciopelados returned home to Bogota after their first-career tour of Australia.

Aterciopelados will play several songs at this prestigious concert including their human rights anthem “The Price Of Silence.” The Amnesty International benefit track was re-worked from the Aterciopelados hit “Cancion Protesta,” originally off their Latin Grammy-winning album ‘Oye.’ “The Price of Silence” was released last winter by Nacional Records, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The song’s music video was virtually simulated in the U.N. Assembly Hall and features Aterciopelados with artists like Julieta Venegas, Stephen Marley and Natalie Merchant.

Video: The Price of Silence

Australia

ATERCIOPELADOS (The Velvets) Australian Tour

For the first time ever, Colombian music icons Aterciopelados bring their Grammy Award winning Latin indie-rock to Australia. Led by songwriters Andrea Echeverri (vocals) and Hector Buitrago (bass), Atercios’ annex and combine styles with a healthy disregard for musical boundaries: new wave, lounge, reggae, bossa nova, electro, hard rock, bolero, Mexican banda, house, rumba-rock and straightforward pop anthems, not to mention surf-rock guitar lines. Accompanied by some of the best musicians in Colombia, the pair is renowned for creating magic onstage.

Lead singer Andrea Echeverri is a high profile Amnesty International ambassador, outspoken on human rights issues in Colombia and across the globe. Her passionate songs and actions have branded her a “Latin Janis Joplin” in the tradition of socially conscious singer-songwriters. The band donated their single “Cancion Protesta” to Amnesty USA which commissioned it’s transformation into a new bi-lingual hit “The Price of Silence”, featuring a host of international world music stars. Please see below for a link to this music video.

Amnesty International Australia are showing their support by sponsoring The Metro concert on October 1st. In response, the band is donating some of the profits to Amnesty.

Full tour dates:
Thursday October 1st – The Metro (Sydney, NSW)
Friday October 2 – Fiesta Festival (Sydney, NSW)
Saturday October 3 – QPAC Concert Hall (Brisbane, QLD)
Sunday October 4 – Hamer Hall (Melbourne, Vic)
Monday October 5 – Stage 88 (Canberra, ACT)

--DANIEL CLARKE

UNSEEN TV: Aterciopelados in concert- Australia

EL DIARIO AUSTRALIANO: "El icónico grupo colombiano liderizado por Andrea Echeverri y Héctor Buitrago se estará presentando -por primera vez- en octubre en una gira que cubre algunas de las principales ciudades de Australia."

LIVE GUIDE: “Musical mavericks often reject the past; this Colombian electro-rock duo is dragging its traditions into the present, marinating its songs in South American rhythms.”

MUSIC FEEDS:"Lead singer Andrea Echeverri is a high profile Amnesty International ambassador, outspoken on human rights issues in Colombia and across the globe. Her passionate songs and actions have branded her a “Latin Janis Joplin”

CONSULADO DE COLOMBIA SYDNEY:"La Embajada de la República de Colombia tiene el gusto de invitarlos a participar en los conciertos del grupo colombiano ATERCIOPELADOS"

LA COMUNIDAD:"Con ellos se viaja a la buena música... Hacen mestiza una música que no tiene fronteras, íntima y bailable, divertida y poética."

Amnesty International Press Release

Amnesty International USA sponsors Viva! Chicago Latin Music Festival Aterciopelados to perform on Saturday August 29th on behalf of Amnesty International.

(Chicago) – Amnesty International USA will be sponsoring the City of Chicago’s Mayor’s Office of Special Events annual Viva! Chicago Latin Music Festival this year on August 29th and 30th. Amnesty International will be raising awareness on two of their priority campaigns; The Women of Atenco and Immigrant Detention. The women of Atenco were brutally abused, mentally and physically by the police in San Salvador Atenco Mexico in May of 2006 after participating in a peaceful peasant protest. Some are still facing charges. Amnesty International is demanding that the Mexican government investigate the crimes committed against these women by the police and hold the guilty accountable. The AIUSA staff and volunteers will be asking guests to sign petitions to Lic. Felipe De Jesus Calderon Hinojosa calling for an effective and impartial investigation into the torture, and federal criminal prosecution for those responsible.
The AIUSA staff will also be discussing their immigration report, focusing on immigrant detention. Attendees of the festival will have the opportunity to get involved in Amnesty International’s worldwide activism by signing petitions at the festival, as well as joining the Amnesty International movement as members.
On Saturday August 29th, The Colombian rock band Aterciopelados will close out the day by performing on behalf of Amnesty International USA. Aterciopelados speaks out on a myriad of issues ranging from political injustice to women’s rights and environmental causes.

Live Last Nigh

Aterciopelados: Live Last Nigh
Nature and environmental themes dominate "Rio,'' the latest album by eclectic Colombian band Aterciopelados. So it was fitting that the first few numbers the quintet played Thursday night at the State Theater just rippled pleasantly. Then singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri shed her bulky white jacket, and the mood became livelier.

Aterciopelados ("the velvety ones'') didn't revisit the early '90s, when they played punk and hard rock. They didn't even allocate much time to their more recent forays into electro-lounge. The set emphasized the mode of "Rio'' -- jangly Latin folk-rock with rhythms that straddled from the Caribbean to the Andes. Songs began with synthesized burbles, Afro-Cuban syncopation or guitar fanfares in the styles of either Carlos Santana or the Edge. But such elements were soon absorbed into the loping whole, and overwhelmed by Echeverri's hearty, penetrating alto.

If such jaunty pop-rockers as "Bolero Falaz'' sounded more like Liverpool than Bogota, the dominant accent was still Latin, with a new tilt toward jazz. Andean pan flutes produced both traditional bird-like tones and free-jazz squawks, and such midtempo tunes as "Aguita'' showcased Echeverri's torch-singer potential.

"Aguita'' is actually a protest of the privatization of water resources, and Echeverri is known for political lyrics. The singer drew cheers when she adorned her guitar with a "No Mas'' sticker from a campaign targeting violence against women, and when she introduced "Cancion Protesta,'' a song the band remade for an Amnesty International project. Aterciopelados's music may sound more easygoing these days, but it's still pointed.

-- MARK JENKINS

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Aterciopelados's Lively Sociable Awareness

Aterciopelados: Live Last Nigh
Nature and environmental themes dominate "Rio,'' the latest album by eclectic Colombian band Aterciopelados. So it was fitting that the first few numbers the quintet played Thursday night at the State Theater just rippled pleasantly. Then singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri shed her bulky white jacket, and the mood became livelier.

Aterciopelados ("the velvety ones'') didn't revisit the early '90s, when they played punk and hard rock. They didn't even allocate much time to their more recent forays into electro-lounge. The set emphasized the mode of "Rio'' -- jangly Latin folk-rock with rhythms that straddled from the Caribbean to the Andes. Songs began with synthesized burbles, Afro-Cuban syncopation or guitar fanfares in the styles of either Carlos Santana or the Edge. But such elements were soon absorbed into the loping whole, and overwhelmed by Echeverri's hearty, penetrating alto.

If such jaunty pop-rockers as "Bolero Falaz'' sounded more like Liverpool than Bogota, the dominant accent was still Latin, with a new tilt toward jazz. Andean pan flutes produced both traditional bird-like tones and free-jazz squawks, and such midtempo tunes as "Aguita'' showcased Echeverri's torch-singer potential.

"Aguita'' is actually a protest of the privatization of water resources, and Echeverri is known for political lyrics. The singer drew cheers when she adorned her guitar with a "No Mas'' sticker from a campaign targeting violence against women, and when she introduced "Cancion Protesta,'' a song the band remade for an Amnesty International project. Aterciopelados's music may sound more easygoing these days, but it's still pointed.

-- MARK JENKINS

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Amnesty International launches campaign with Song of Aterciopelados

Aterciopelados, Julieta Venegas, Natalie Merchan, Stephen Marley and musicians from around the world together to Amnesty International, Naional Records and Link TV launched, "THE PRICE OF SILENCE"
A song and a video commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
All human beings
Born brothers are born free
Not to mention more
It is time to arm
A better world of love and equality ...

Canción Protesta, the album Oye, of Aterciopelados (Colombia) was adapted to create "The Price of Silence", a special edition to benefit Amnesty International.
In addition to Venegas, Merchant, Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, "The Price of Silence" includes more than 12 artists from various parts of the world, some of which have experienced human rights violations such as the Sudanese rapper Emmanuel Jal, who was a child soldier, and the South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela, who spent years in exile during the era of racial segregation in his country.

The video was filmed in Bogota, Paris, London, Miami, Los Angeles and South Africa, there are artists in an animation of the Assembly of the Organization of the United Nations in New York, was presented by actor Laurence Fishburne and premiere in the events celebrating the 60th anniversary in several countries.

All funds raised through the sale of the song and the video will go to Amnesty International

The artists involved are:
Stephen Marley (Jamaica)
Natalie Merchant (USA)
Julieta Venegas (Mexico)
Aterciopelados (Colombia)
Chali 2NA from Jurassic 5 (USA)
Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
Chiwoniso (Zimbabwe)
Emmanuel Jal (Sudan)
Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet / USA)
Hugh Masekela (South Africa)
Natacha Atlas (UK / Egypt)
Rachid Taha (France / Algeria)
Kiran Ahluwahlia (Canada / India)
Pedro Martínez and Cucu Diamantes of Yerba Buena (USA / Cuba).

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