La Redada Abrete Sesamo / African Bom

The sound of an oar in the water, the wail of a stream train, the roar of cars, the
mambo, the cha cha cha, rock & roll, all of these have shaped the sonic landscape
of the world's fifth largest city, Mexico City in the Valley of Anáhuac. This megacity
has been one of the great repositories of the Latin American musical tradition and
musical exiles. La Redada, a sextet of tropical psychedelic music from the capital of
Mexico consisting of Carlos Icaza, Julian Huerta, Daniel Llermaly, Oscar Ojeda,
Feike de Jong and Fernando Caridi, references Latin American music from the 30s
to the 70s, reinventing sounds hidden in crates of second-hand vinyl. La Redada
takes these songs with the goal of revisiting an imaginary past of Mexico City,
where musical adventure, the energy of dance and the variety of human
experience contained in this city of 20 million people reign. The sound of La
Redada is determined by its instrumentation: drums, organ, bass, percussions,
woodwinds and theremin. The composition of the band is cosmopolitan,
numbering two Chileans, a Dutchman and three Mexicans. The band's members
have played in distinct scenes in Mexico City, such as surf, garage, free jazz, noise,
electronic music and tropical music among others.