Very Be Careful

Adventure has never been a task for VBC. A Caribbean soul and a California heart have sustained two decades of ceaseless romp-downs and raucous times for L.A.’s vallenato veteranos, inciting 10s of 1000s of earthlings, and even some ETs, to boogie to the Colombian coastal beat. From the debaucherous streets of: Austin’s SXSW, Germany’s WorldCupTour ’06, L.A.’s SunsetJunctionStreetFair; to the cultural pinnacles of: Chicago’s SummerDanceSeries, New York’s CentralParkSummerstage, L.A.s’ GrandPerformances & Levitt Pavilion, London’s HammersmithApollo; colossal concerts: L.A. Sports Arena CumbiaFest, GlastonburyMusicFestival & Bestival UK, FujiRockFestival & AsagiriJam Japan; clubs and hubs: N.Y.’s SOBs, L.A.’s HOBs, backyard BBQs, VeryBeCareful has tamed the beasts within or unleashed the ones without, helping to popularize the beauty of the 1950s-1970s sound of Colombian vallenato and cumbia. Bootlegged across the Americas, pumped at the clubs, and ripped in cyberspace and airwaves around the world, VeryBeCareful forges ahead globetrotting alongside legends and antiheros: JoeStrummer, AlfredoGutierrez, Antibalas, CarlosVives, GrupoNiche, KronosQuartet, GogolBordello, BuenaVistaSocialClub, JackWhite, CelsoPiña, VampireWeekend, FrukoYSusTesos. Their infamous twenty year traditions hosting old school “dances” for Valentine’sDay, NewYear’sEve, 20deJulio, Halloween, and the legendary July Fourth Brooklyn “CumbiaUnderTheSparks” rooftop affair, has brought together people from around the globe itchin’ for those early roots sounds that prove a stripped down parranda is the fiercest and funnest way to party. Discography: Deception Is Easy (produced by Money Mark) 1998 Pinto Records Cheap Chillin 1999 De Volada/Downtown Pijao/Steadybeat The Rose 2001 Downtown Pijao El Grizz 2002 Downtown Pijao Ñacas 2005 Downtown Pijao Salad Buey 2007 Downtown Pijao Horrible Club (live bootleg recordings) 2009 Downtown Pijao Escape Room 2010 Barbès ¿Remember Me From The Party? 2012 Downtown Pijao El Millonario 2013 Steadybeat/Downtown Pijao El Disfraz 2017 OlFactory Records Daisy’s Beauty Salon 2018 Downtown Pijao/Steady Beat Records Film/Video The Tooth (film short) 2003 Downtown Pijao/Cinnamon Roll Gang