La Mecánica Popular: Radical Afro-Latin Futurism
With hints of chicha and electrified Miles Davis, La Mecánica Popular makes the ancient sound like the future on their new album, Rosa Cruz.
It's not often that Rosicrucianism and a salsa-playing robot come up in the same conversation — chatting with Peruvian-born, New York-based musician, composer, robotics and software developer Efraín Rozas is a heady whirlwind.
Rozas holds a Ph.d.," the aforementioned robot whose brain was designed to play polyrhythmic percussion. An extraordinarily talented composer, Rozas is fascinated by the workings and relationships between mind and matter. At the same time, he's deeply invested in creating an authentic language for a new Latin American music.
