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:
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ǀǀ Brujería y Brujulería: Enwitching Aztlan -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica (with Eddie Parente)
Recorded in La Habana, Cuba/Los Angeles in August--September 2019
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ǀǀ Invisible Peoples -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica
Recorded in La Habana, Cuba in June 2018
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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:
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ǀǀ I Sing to the Sea -- Nacional Electrónica + TKU
Album (10/1/2017)
(CD)
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Lily Dosina
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ǀǀ Latitudes -- Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Mateo Latosa/César Gallegos
Album (11/1/2016)
[CD/Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: José Prado
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ǀǀ Leaving -- TKU
Original Theatrical Score (11/4/2013)
CD/Digital download
Powys Media Soil
Cover art: Gaby Sánchez
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ǀǀ Extraits et Interludes -- TKU
Album (3/30/13)
[Digital Download]
Powys Media Soil
Cover photography: Vanessa Champion
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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:
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ǀǀ Predatory Lender--TKU
Director: Vert Wright
Jim Meyer Films
[Partial Score] 2014
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OTHER COMMISSIONED SCORES (SHORT FORM FILMS/VIDEOS/WEB SERIES/PLAYS/DANCE PERFORMANCES/ETC.):
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ǀǀ Enter the House Between audio drama (Seasons 1-5) -- Gallegos/Latosa
Audio Drama Series Score (2023--ongoing)
Director: John Kenneth Muir
The Lulu Show, LLC[MP3 CD]
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ǀǀ Angelus Lamentum -- TKU + Nacional Electrónica/3-19 Dance Art, Beatriz Eugenia Vásquez, choreographer
Contemporary Dance Score
June 12 and 13, 2021--Ebb & Flow Festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Features four tracks from the album Invisible Peoples
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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
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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
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ǀǀ Tenochtli -- TKU
Short Film Score
Dir. Rocío Romero
US 2018
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ǀǀ Prisoners -- TKU
Short Film Score
Dir. Rupert Booth
Helical Scan Productions
UK 2015
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ǀǀ Equinox's First Kill
Short Film Score
Dir. Rupert Booth
Helical Scan Productions
UK 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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NOTABLE LIVE COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES:
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"LUNA" --TKU + Margarita Luna
SELACo/City of Bell ART WALK
(August 2, 2014)
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