Movimientos presents Lokandes + DJ Karamel at CASA Festival

CASA Latin American Theatre Festival was created in 2007 by Daniel

Goldman to fill a gap that needed filling. While Latin American cinema,

music, visual arts and literature were enjoying a great success in the

UK, theatre somehow had been left behind, CASA was set up to change

this, to build bridges between two incredible theatre cultures, to

create regular opportunities for Latin American theatre and theatre

makers in the UK.

Movimientos comes back to CASA to present London Latino superstars Lokandes. Followed by Globoloco DJ Karamel 'til late.

See here for full line-up:

Lokandes are fronted by whirldwind musical maestro *Kanti Qena* and

related their name to the combination of two words: ‘Crazy’ and ‘Andes’

which represents the intention of their music: Crazy music from the

Andes. The project aims to create alternative music, taking the melodies

and energy of Andean music and bringing it up to date; creating a fusion

of traditional roots and Afro-Andean rhythms with other contemporary

genres such as Reggae, Cumbia, Ska, Jazz, Son, Rumba Folk and funky

Latin rhythms. They unite musicians and instruments from Peru, Bolivia,

Spain, France, China, Chile and the UK, and set their highly original

music, alongside socially conscious lyrics and a super-tight rhythm

section bringing awareness to Latin-American and worlwide cultures with

their music.

DJ Karamel’s Middle Eastern and Irish upbringing has given him a taste for blending global influences. At his regular nights in Brixton and festivals around the UK he's known for spinning sounds from around the equator, Globoloco ventures across the carnival frontier with Afrobeat, Balkan Beats, Boogaloo, Cumbia, Funk Carioca, Dancehall, Funk, Highlife, Latin Hiphop, Mambo, Roots Reggae, Samba, Ska – always finely spiced and fully blended!