Nemegata

On their new offering, Nemegata ascends the proverbial Holy Mountain. Their upcoming third full-length was recorded at Lechehouse Music in Buda, TX, and produced by Grammy-award Winning musician and producer Beto Martinez (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, Money Chicha), and Juan “El Mono” Alvarez. The new album is a powerful Afro-Indigenous Colombian shamanic journey filled with tobacco-seeped jungle sounds, eerie synthesizers, and distorted psychedelic guitars.

These songs pay homage to ancestral voices and figures, as well as the powerful voices of Colombian youth activists who stood up in 2021 and continue to shape the future of Colombia through their protests.

Nemegata is a fierce power trio fronted by Víctor-Andrés Cruz “El Guámbito” on lead vocals, electric guitar,synth and Colombian percussion. With the taut, polyrhythmic lock of César Valencia “I Nova” on bass, synth, Colombian percussion, and vocals. And Fabián Rincón “Don Fabo” on drums, synth drums, and vocals. Their sound is often described as hallucinatory, otherworldly, and haunting, with a trance-like performance.

The band is heavily influenced by their native Colombian traditions such as cumbia, bullerengue, gaita music, Colombian Andean songs, as well as '60s and '70s mind-bending psychedelia from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.

Nemegata’s futuristic take on tropical Latinx sounds and Abyayalismo has won over audiences and critics alike with their explosive live shows, earning them “Top 10 Local Acts” in 2019, alongside BlackPumas.

Their debut album Hycha Wy (Sonorama Discos) is considered one of Austin’s top 100 albums of 2020. The band has also been nominated for the 2022 Austin Music Awards in the “Best of World Music” category.