

TKU: Tecamachalco Underground
BODY OF WORK:
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as César Gallegos/Mateo Latosa
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as TKU: Tecamachalco Underground
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as Angels May Prevail
FORTHCOMING RELEASES
ALBUMS AND SINGLES:
ǀǀ Brujería y Brujulería: Enwitching Aztlan -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica (with Eddie Parente)
Recorded in La Habana, Cuba/Los Angeles in August--September 2019
ǀǀ Invisible Peoples -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica
Recorded in La Habana, Cuba in June 2018
ǀǀ Echoes of the Mourning Stones -- Vanessa Champion/Patrizia Gattaceca/TKU
Book of photography and poetry with Album CD
Photography by Vanessa Champion
Poetry by Patrizia Gattaceca
Powys Media Soil
ǀǀ Innocence -- TKU
Album
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover art by Ryan Pham
ǀǀ Fixed Hour -- Angels May Prevail
Album
[Digital Download/CD]
NOW IN RELEASE
ALBUMS AND SINGLES:
ǀǀ I Sing to the Sea -- Nacional Electrónica + TKU
Album (10/1/2017)
(CD)
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Lily Dosina
ǀǀ Latitudes -- Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Mateo Latosa/César Gallegos
Album (11/1/2016)
[CD/Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: José Prado
ǀǀ Leaving -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score (11/4/2013)
CD/Digital download
Powys Media Soil
Cover art: Gaby Sánchez
ǀǀ Extraits et Interludes -- TKU
Album (3/30/13)
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Vanessa Champion
ǀǀ Soldaderas -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score (5/2012)[Digital Download/CD available at theater only]
Powys Media Soil
Cover design: José Prado
ǀǀ Reveries -- TKU with Vanessa Champion
Album (1/13/13)
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Vanessa Champion
ǀǀ Music for La Casa de la Raza -- TKU
Charity Compilation (3/2012)
[Limited edition (of 1) CD]
Powys Media Soil
ǀǀ Music from the Café Mak -- TKU
Album (1/2012)
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Ryan Pham
ǀǀ India -- TKU
Single (12/2011)
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Vanessa Champion
ǀǀ Tecamachalco Underground Sampler 2011 -- TKU
Album (4/2011)
[CD/Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Ryan Pham
FILM SCORES:
ǀǀ Predatory Lender--TKU
Director: Vert Wright
Jim Meyer Films
[Partial Score] 2014
OTHER COMMISSIONED SCORES (SHORT FORM FILMS/VIDEOS/WEB SERIES/PLAYS/DANCE PERFORMANCES/ETC.):
ǀǀ Angelus Lamentum -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica/3-19 Dance Art, Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez, choreographer
Contemporary Dance Score -- at the Ebb & Flow Festival
June 12 and 13, 2021--Ebb & Flow Festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Features four tracks from the album Invisible Peoples
ǀǀ Brujería y Brujulería: Enwitching Aztlan-- TKU + Nacional Electrónica (with Eddie Parente)
Documentary Score
Recorded in La Habana, Cuba and in Los Angeles July-September 2019
ǀǀ Tableau Vivant -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score
Play written by Miguel Angel Ríos/Karin Guerra
Directed by Miguel Angel Ríos/Encuentro Latino Los Angeles
March 16, 2018 -- ICBC Tecate Mx
ǀǀ Tenochtli -- TKU
Short Film Score
Dir. Rocío Romero
US 2018
ǀǀ Prisoners -- TKU
Short Film Score
Dir. Rupert Booth
Helical Scan Productions
UK 2015
ǀǀ Equinox's First Kill
Short Film Score
Dir. Rupert Booth
Helical Scan Productions
UK 2015
ǀǀ Latitudes de Latinidad en América -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica
Short Documentary Score
Dir. José Prado
California State University, Dominguez Hills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBNhauluMVI&feature=youtu.be
US 2015
ǀǀ The History of Black Dance in America: Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez -- TKU
Music underscore for interview
3-19 Dance Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igkJR-JMCI
US 2014
ǀǀ Defining American and Latino Identities in Cuba -- TKU
Short Documentary Score
Dir. Sandra L. Acosta
Producer: José Prado
June 22, 2014
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Featured music: "Latitudes 1" (written for this film) and "I Sing to the Sea (No One Else is Listening)" (from the TKU album EXTRAITS ET INTERLUDES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn0uKaM1w20&list=FLqpmLgykBGUqNVEFZNGr5PQ
ǀǀ Higgs-Boson -- TKU
Promotional Video for Modern Dance Performance
(Higgs-Boson by 3-19 Dance Art/Eva Montealegre)
Directed by Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez
Music featured: "Glimpse of God" from the TKU album SOLDADERAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6OL2NT6RE
November 2013
ǀǀ Bridge to the Soul -- TKU
Promotional Video
Video directed by Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez
"Bridge to the Soul/The Art of Healing" Art Exibition
Curated by Art 4 All People in collaboration with USC
USC IGAM (Institute for Genetic Medicine) Art Gallery
November 17th 2013 through February 17th, 2014.
Music featured: Guitar Arcades (from the TKU album SOLDADERAS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghxdUJKPB8
ǀǀ Leaving -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score
Play written by Luis Ayhllón. English translation by Daniel Jáquez.
Dir. Juan Parada/Off the Tracks Theater Company
October 2013
CD/Digital download
Powys Media Soil
Cover Art: Gaby Sánchez
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153516123745637
ǀǀ Dacorum Look No Further Showcase 2013
Promotional Video Score
Photography by Vanessa Champion
Music Featured: "Kindness, Impossibly Bottled" (from the TKU album EXTRAITS ET INTERLUDES)
October 22, 2013
ǀǀ Merkaba--TKU
Modern Dance Score
Commissioned by Beatriz Vásquez 3-19 Dance Art
Choreographer: Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez
Premiere on February 27, 2013
Mercado La Paloma (Los Angeles)
Commissioned music: "Dream Theory in Kano"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9kqk6lglA
ǀǀ Let's Fri-da Arte--TKU
Promotional Video Score
Commissioned by Encuentro Latino Art Gallery
Lynwood, California 11/2012
Music Featured: "Felicità" (from the TKU album EXTRAITS ET INTERLUDES)
ǀǀ To Hell You Ride -- TKU
Short-Form Promotional Video Score
Recorded 6/2102--Released 10/2012
Commissioned by Dark Horse Comics
Narration: Lance Henriksen
Script: Joe Maddrey/Lance Henriksen
Artwork: Tom Mandrake
Dark Horse Comics/Powys Media Soil
ǀǀ Soldaderas -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score (5/2012)
Grupo de Teatro SINERGIA
Premiere Performance: May 25th 2012
Play written by Rubén Amavizca-Murúa
Director: Rubén Amavizca-Murúa
[Digital Download/CD available at theater only]
Powys Media Soil
Cover design: Jose Prado
ǀǀ Millennium Apocalypse (Season 2): The Dark Inside You -- Gallegos/Latosa
Web Series Score (12/2011)
Director: Jason Morris
Digital Shadow Films
[Digital Download] Powys Media Soil
NOTE: Award Winner 2012 L.A. Web Series Festival in the category of COMPOSER/Horror, Science Fiction or Fantasy Series (Fantasy)
Cover art: Jason Morris
ǀǀ The House Between (Seasons 1-3) -- Gallegos/Latosa
Web Series Score (5/2010)
Director: John Kenneth Muir
The Lulu Show, LLC
[MP3 CD] Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Kim Breeding
GALLERY INSTALLATIONS/EXHIBITIONS:
ǀǀ "Latitudes de Latinidad en América"
Photography Exhibition/Music Installation
Photography by Raul Menjívar
Music installation by Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Mateo Latosa/César Gallegos
California State University, Domínguez Hills
University Library Cultural Art Center
(March 18th through June 15th, 2014)
ǀǀ "From Slums to Cities" -- Music Installation by TKU
Photographer: Vanessa Champion
--Exhibition of photography taken in India while accompanying the Born to Be Beautiful charity.
Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire, England
(23-28 August 2012)
Music featured: A large selection of new and unreleased tracks by TKU
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/vanessa-champion-s-from-slums-to-the-city-exhibition-19744
ǀǀ "Creative Jam UK 2011" -- Featuring music by TKU
(Dir. Vanessa Champion)
Art Exhibition
St. James Centre
Edinburgh, Scotland
July 9 through July 23, 2011
Featured music: "Marshland Trance" (from the TKU album TECAMACHALCO UNDERGROUND SAMPLER 2011)
ǀǀ Exhibition of Ceramic Art* -- Music installation by Mateo Latosa
Ceramic art by Carlos Cuellar
*(Name of exhibition unknown)
Featuring the music installation entitled "The Suffering Word"
La Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, California
(1988)
OPERA:
ǀǀ "Eucalyptus: a los que los perros aspiran"
Music by Mary Lee A. Roberts
Libretto by Mateo Latosa
Conductor: James Forward
Photography by Marcelo Pando and Margaret Mayer
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California at Santa Barbara
(May 22, 1988)
NOTABLE LIVE COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES:
"LUNA" --TKU + Margarita Luna
SELACo/City of Bell ART WALK
(August 2, 2014)






