Meridian Brothers + Ivan Medellín

Meridian Brothers is a contemporary neo-tropicalista group founded in 1998 as a musical laboratory for a small audiences and distributed at the time in cassette format. From 2010 to the present, the project undertakes international tours, playing at important music festivals and venues in Europe, The United States and Latin America including the Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Rencontres trans musicals (France), Worldtronics (Germany), Festival Paleo (Switzerland), Rock al Parque (Bogotá-Colombia), NRMAL Festival (Mexico), Bahidorá Festival (Mexico) among others. Meridian Brothers has released albums with several independent music labels such as La Distritofónica (Colombia), Soundway Records (UK), Discrepant (UK), Staubgold (Germany), Names You Can Trust (USA), Bongo Joe (Switzerland), OKRA (Japan). The style of Meridian Brothers is a part of the neo-tropicalista movement in Colombia, taking place at the beginning of the 21st century. Meridian Brothers has earned reputation as a cult band in Latin America. The group has been cataloged by music journalists as a futuristic avant-garde proposal, which preserves roots reminiscences of Latin music, due to its sound, style and theatrical expression. Iván Medellín from Conjunto Media Luna is also from Colombia. In fact Ablis Álvarez from Meridian Brothers and Iván Medellín from Conjunto Media Luna are collaborators, who together focus on the music of Caribbean coast of Colombia.