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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:

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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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