Monte, Simon Mejia amalgama de Música, Biodiversidad y Cultura Ancestral
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Simón Mejía founder of Latin music sensation Bomba Estéreo is an integral artist, genius, with gifts from different muses who has successfully ventured into film and music. A few months ago he presented his latest work: "Monte", a visual and sonorous project that flows between the parallels of electronic music and the sounds and ancestral chants of the jungle. Simon's connection with cinema and the aboriginal cultures of Colombia in the Amazon is long-standing, he has been immersed in visually recording their cultural and musical heritage by integrating himself with these communities and offering documentaries where the jungle, its communities and sounds are amalgamated in great contribution tapes, in the company of award-winning filmmakers such as Santiago Posada and Simon Hernandez.
Monte's latest musical and visual work arises from his travels to different natural places in Colombia and other countries, birds, insects sounds of nature, water, the deep bustle of the jungle, and the incest with the digital and machine world.
There is an enormous difference between the artists that the common people get used to idolize by a system that sells those sound figures that in reality contaminate minds in a negative way, and do not contribute but distraction with little depth of conscience. Mejia's contribution is invaluable, and that need to make feel and visivilize lost cultural values has led him to amalgamate his creative talents and together with others like Simon Hernandez really build society, and are promoters as drivers of change that humanity needs. Their contact with the communities and that unbreakable bond with nature has driven them to make visible for example that the rivers for those forgotten ancestral collectives are their internet, which sounds like real fiction, accompanied by unique sounds in an isolated environment that has made them artifices of creating their own genres and instruments, which are at risk of disappearing and hence the value of the contribution of Simon Mejia to ensure that this is valued, respected and protected.
The notorious difference with his creation Bomba Estereo demonstrates once again his creativity, because Monte is a totally instrumental result but that very deep down they share the fusion with the ancestral music and folklore that are totally related to the environment of the communities that historically have produced those rhythms, with Bomba Estereo in a joyful direction, included communities of Palenke and the Colombian Caribbean .
Simón Mejía has used his talent to express himself as he knows best: through music. He composed an original soundtrack for the film Sonic Forest that combines the sounds of nature and local communities recorded during his journey. The title track, Déjame Respirar, features the pure folklore of Colombia's Pacific coast, with the inspiring voices of his Bomba Estereo partner Li Saumet and renowned singer Nidia Góngora, who has brought her native Timbiquí to the world for more than 20 years.
Today Simon travels the Yuma or Magdalena River in the heart of Colombia, compiling information and visual and sonorous testimony for his new documentary. Simón's tireless work for the ancestral sounds and the roots of the Colombian culture places him in a very special place, which forces him to think and philosophize, concluding that the mission of sensitizing that artists possess and their gigantic power to communicate would be used to build, the world would be different if these divine gifts given by the gods, were used as Simón has done.
