Torres is into Prince, George Clinton, Me'Shell N'Degeocello and the Cure. Percussionist Rora loves salsa guitarist Pardo digs disco vocalist Briceño praises funk. Like the Simpsons and their different personalities, each Amigo brings a different sensibility to the family's musical dynamic and overall identity. They jammed together in 1991, "and now, we've been all the same people playing together for all these years, just like a family-like husband, wife, kids, cousins," says Torres by phone from New York. A mutual friend suggested they meet each other. The six members were attending two different high schools, performing in separate trios. Representing Venezuela are Los Amigos Invisibles.Īccording to "Guelcome," the mission statement off its 1998 stateside debut, The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, the group presents a "fusion of different elements of Latin dance and sex culture." Los Amigos Invisibles, which consists of drummer Juan Manuel Rora, bassist José Rafael Torres, keyboardist Armando Figueredo, guitarist/songwriter José Luis Pardo, rapper Mauricio Arcas and vocalist Julio Briceño, has a typical enough backstory, albeit with a decidedly international twist. Though Deee-Lite is no longer active, the tightly knit universe of international funkiness expands, inhabited by such denizens as Japan's Fantastic Plastic Machine and the Nortec Collective from Mexico. IN THE LATE '80s, Deee-Lite, that delicious club confection, sang about a global village in the age of communication, like jacking an Ethernet cable to George Clinton's prophecy of "one nation under a groove" and DSLing a dance-floor-compatible vibe to all four corners. The long, strange trip of Los Amigos Invisibles Metroactive Music | Los Amigos InvisiblesĬaracas Rock: For their latest CD, Los Amigos Invisibles recorded with house-music architects Masters at Work.
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