| Nine Rain is the border-crossing band project of an American, two Mexicans and a German, fusing electronics, New Music, salsa and son in ideal fashion. The bandleader Steven Brown - a former member of Tuxedo Moon - has lived in Mexico for eight years, continually seeking to combine tradition and avant-garde. The music programme of MEXartes-berlin.de: Mexican Wave - Current Music from Mexico The first overview of the full spectrum of current Mexican music production in Europe: from classical and new music to rock, world music and club sounds, a plethora of concerts introduces listeners to the musical cultures between Tijuana and Oaxaca, presenting the many-layered developments and connections between indigenous traditions, European modernity and American-influenced pop music as well as urban electronic club music. Many groups have explicitly political agendas, confronting the rapidity of urbanization, the border situation between the USA and Latin America and the discontinuities within Mexican society - without detracting from the entertainment value of their music. Today the musicians and composers draw from the existing diversity, regional as well as historical: a brilliant eclecticism of sound.
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