Esperando el Tsunami

The film we did with Vincent Moon is out! And anybody anywhere can watch it. Just go to Host a Screening to sign up and create your own screening (watch it with friends, family or a group of strangers that you meet for the first time!)

The film follows Lulacruza as we search for Colombia’s musical nectar… We traveled to some remote areas of Colombia searching for the roots of it’s music. Along the way we listened to nature, dialoging and sometimes channeling the voices of the land, and improvised with local folkloric musicians.

Since it’s release 2 weeks ago people already organized over 50 screenings around the planet. People are getting together to watch in places like Colombia, Argentina, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, England, Russia, France, Portugal, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Indonesia, and more.

The funds for this project were raised through Kickstarter. Around 200 people donated to the project. Its been a collective creation! and that is why we want to share it FREE for everyone to watch and participate. Please spread the word.

Sign up here to watch it!

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2011 – It’s been an amazing year for us and we want to personally thank all of you for your support. We make music and art for a number of reasons, but we wouldn’t be doing any of this if it weren’t for all of you. Doing it Together and sharing what we find with others is the food that keeps us going and keeps us moving.

This year: we released Circular Tejido, a “genre-defying and border-collapsing” album that melts in your ear; we toured in the USA, playing some of our most epic concerts yet and discovering inspiring micro-communities of people spread across the country; we publicly raised over $15K through Kickstarter for a collaborative project with French filmmaker Vincent Moon in Colombia; we then traveled for almost three months through the country, getting to know some amazing local musicians and immersing ourselves in the voice of nature; and finally we released Esperando el Tsunami, the film that narrates some of the most profound experiences of our travel.

We had such incredible concerts this year!!! We finished it, in Argentina, opening for the legendary Colombian singer Toto La Momposina in El Gran Rex, one of Buenos Aires’ most important theaters.

Also, we were nominated and won a number of awards in Colombia’s No Illuminadas Awards.

We still can’t believe all that happened in 2011!

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There’s more to come in 2012! A new album, over a dozen outtakes to be posted in www.esperando.cc (with mini albums to download) from our travels, and a full-fledged tour where we travel to wherever you want us to go. Thanks for listening and being part of this radiant tapestry!

ale & luis

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Vincent Moon, who won the Sound & Vision Prize in 2009 with his masterpiece ‘La Faute des Fleurs’, is back with what he calls his best film ever. We are not reluctant to agree with him. ‘Esperando el tsunami’ is an intoxicating picture & sound piece disguised as a road movie. Alejandra and Luis, the two young musicians in the South American duo Lulacruza, travel across Colombia to take the country’s musical nectar and transform it into their almost shamanic trance sessions, which call to mind Animal Collective’s early days. On the heels of them follows Moon with his sensuous-seeking camera and responsive musicianship -which make him into something quite unique in today’s film world. This hipster-vagabond who single-handedly revived the music video as an art form, is now doing the same with music documentary. But ‘Esperando El Tsunami’ is greater than its own genre, with its extreme close-ups of nature’s smallest details that open the film gradually up, as a magical-realism love story of the most beautiful kind. There is no doubt. Vincent Moon has done it again.

October 2011 – CPH DOX

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