Performing Live at the Record Bar on 2/14 Show starts at 9pm. 1020 Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO
Making Movies makes music that matters: Built upon a heavy
foundation of Afro-Latino rhythms, they have created a bilingual, psychedelic
re-envisioning of the Latin American "son."
The band's second album, A La Deriva, ("adrift" or
"swept away"), produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, tells a story
based on the struggles of an immigrant family that tragically falls apart in
America, and the consequential impact on the following generation. Taking cues
from Latin American folklore, the band's sound swings intensely, at times
sounding like Compay Segundo being played by Jimi Hendrix and at other times
like The Talking Heads digging deep into a dembow. When Felix Contreras at NPR
described the title track 'Deriva' he stated, "...the young band Making
Movies (and its producer, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos) shows us how deeply
thought-out lyrics sound next to a rhythm track that somehow both propels and
floats without violating the laws of physics."
Making Movies has shared the stage with the likes of Los
Lobos, Tennis, Ozomatli, Aterciopelados, Neon Indian, Delta Spirit, and
Mariachi El Bronx among others.
