TKU: Tecamachalco Underground
Welcome to the official TKU website
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Visit our BLOG for the latest news and information mixed with our thoughts on the various musical projects and collaborations we are working on. LATEST ENTRY 5/26/21!
Music from the collaboration of TKU + Nacional Electrónica, selections from INVISIBLE PEOPLES, will underscore Angelus Lamentum, a new dance work by choreographer, Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez and her dance company, 3-19 Dance Art at the Ebb & Flow festival on June 12th and 13th in Chinatown at the Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring Street.
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PREVIOUSLY
TKU + Nacional Electrónica (with Eddie Parente) have completed work on their newest collaboration: the score for Brujería y Brujulería: Enwitching Aztlan, a documentary focusing on the new wave of Chicana/o/Latina/o poets in Southern California and featuring interviews with, and poetry by: Iris de Anda, Viva Padilla, Luis Rodríguez and Matt Sedillo.
COMING IN 2021!
TKU + NATIONAL ELECTRÓNICA
"INVISIBLE PEOPLES"
TKU composed the score for the play TABLEAU VIVANT presented by Encuentro Latino Los Angeles. Premiere performance on March 16, 2018 in cooperation with ICBC Tecate, Mexico.
You are listening to
"Cuban Choir IV" from LATITUDES by Roedelius/Latosa/Gallegos
(exclusive to this website).
In Release:
TKU & Nacional Electrónica (2017)
I SING TO THE SEA
LATITUDES
Roedelius/Latosa/Gallegos
(2016)
TKU
(2013)
LEAVING
EXTRAITS ET INTERLUDES
TKU
(2013)
TKU with Vanessa Champion
(2013)
REVERIES
TKU
(2012)
SOLDADERAS
TKU
(2012)
MUSIC FROM
THE CAFE MAK
TKU
(2011)
INDIA
TKU
(2011)
MILLENNIUM APOCALYPSE:
THE DARK INSIDE YOU
TKU
(2011)
INNOCENCE
César Gallegos/Mateo Latosa
(2010)
THE HOUSE BETWEEN
The poster art for the short film, Tenochtli, directed by ROCIO ROMERO
Music by TKU
THE LATEST RELEASES:
Click on album covers to go to ordering pages.
The second (and latest) in the Latitudes series of albums, I Sing to the Sea is the collaboration of Nacional Electrónica and TKU. Recorded in La Habana in summer 2015, elements of this album serve as the score to the short documentary, Latitudes de Latinidad en América, directed by José Prado.
LATITUDES is a nearly 72-minute long excerpt from the music installation by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Mateo Latosa and César Gallegos for "Latitudes de Latinidad en América", an exhibition of photography of Cuba by artist, Raúl Menjívar. The exhibition was held at the California State University, Domínguez Hills University Library Cultural Art Center from March 18 to June 15, 2014.
