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BODY OF WORK:

  • as  César Gallegos/Mateo Latosa

  • as TKU: Tecamachalco Underground

  • 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)

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