Balún!

Balún 2010. Photo by: Claudia Calderón

Brought together by their love of simple melodies, 16mm films, cartoon doodles, classical and folk instruments, and experimental pop music, Balún was formed in 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico by José Olivares and Angélica Negrón. In 2006 and 2009 respectively, Noraliz Ruiz and Leonardo Velázquez joined the band.

In 2006 the band released their first album “Something Comes Our Way” (Brilliante records) after years of self-releasing CD-Rs and MP3-EPs on various labels such as Obervatory Online and their own label Sgulp! Discos. The band’s first album received critical acclaim from various media outlets such as Allmusic.com, Textura, The Big Take Over, The Tripwire, and Flavorpill. In 2007 their “EP Collection” was re-released worldwide under Expansion Team. Since then, the group has released new songs on different compilations appearing with artists from all over the world such as B. Fleischmann, Lullatone, Fax, Montag, I Am Robot and Proud, among others, and have done remixes for the groups Miou Miou, Arturo en el Barco and Genji Siraisi.

The band moved to the United States in 2006 and has performed on venues around the country and festivals/parties such as Decibel Fest, Pop Montreal, Nacotheque and Pulsewave with artists like Vampire Weekend, Headlights, Tujiko Noriko, minusbaby, and Barbara Morgenstern. They have also collaborated with illustrator Tatiana Arocha on a short film for the DVD series PSST! and with Puerto Rican experimental theater company Y No Había Luz.

CONTACT!

This is our band e-mail: hi@balunonline.com

For management/booking/press inquiries talk to this nice guy: Ed Menacho at ed@brilliante.tv