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Donde está mi gente

by Contento

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When Paulo and Sano, Contento’s two expatriate Colombian compadres, met a decade ago at an Eddie Palmieri concert in Berlin, they discovered a mutual passion for salsa. During a three-year period between 2016 and 2019, they got together whenever possible between Paulo’s base in Geneva and Sano’s in Barcelona to explore their musical passion and lay down a debut album. Lo Bueno Está Aquí crystallised what Paulo describes as “a new salsa sound that may also make [listeners] want to discover some of the older sounds, too,” and in the process garnered such artistic and critical success that the UK’s The Guardian chose it as their
Global Album of the Month in November 2020, with Bandcamp also giving it Album of the Day honours.

The second single from Contento’s follow-up, En Lancha Pal Futuro, typifies the pair’s ‘retro-smart’ approach to a “new salsa sound” that’s rooted in the genre’s past. With its electronic beats and pulsating squelchy synthesiser, it sounds modern and artfully hip. Strip it back to its essentials, however, and you hear the beat- beat-beat of the clave, the fundamental rhythm at the very heart of the more traditional musical forms that would coalesce as salsa. “Donde Está Mi Gente” follows the scheme of a Cuban son montuno. It’s the slowest track on the album and, as the guitar, organ and synthesiser are layered together, Paulo’s deliciously sleepy
vocal is answered by the contrasting voice of Mille et Une Nuit (whose vocals grace a number of tracks on the album).

As the repetitious melody instils itself in the listener’s subconscious, the result is something deceptively simple, devilishly catchy and quite irresistible.

Contento like to make their audience happy. Their playful approach to making what is essentially dance music
guarantees a good time for one and all. For all their other musical projects, Paulo Olarte and Sano have created
a monster in this band.

With one successful album already in the can and another sure-fire success on the way,
the future’s bright for this pair of ‘salsapunks’.

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released October 22, 2021

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Paulo and Sano aka CONTENTO had so many friends in common that it was like they knew each other for many years before they actually met. In 2011 they finally had the pleasure of seeing their faces for the first time. This happens in Berlin at a concert by the master Eddie Palmieri at the House of World Cultures and it set a precedent. ... more

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