Together with the Freakshow Artrock Festival (Würzburg), we present legendary and extraordinary Akinetón Retard from Chile. The music of Akinetón Retard provokes a sort of tagging fever. Critics flip, although they do not openly accept it, producing definitions at random. The most virtuous of them achieve a mix of four different styles in only one word, going like this: “Electroacoustic Avant-Free Rock Fascist-Comunist Spontaneous Clowny Ensemble."
- “If Akinetón is free jazz at the top, it is tropical at the bottom as well. Akinetón Retard is the instrument and it has swing, rock, cumbia and within that same song it has instrumental reggaetón, particularly for “perreo akinetonero”.” - David Ponce
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Akinetón Retard
"When the electric guitars and hysterical saxophones of the rock project reached its first ten years of life, Akinetón Retard was much more than the name of a medicine against Parkinson. It wasn’t only the name given to a band born from the Arts School’s undergrounds of Universidad de Chile, Akinetón Retard was a concept by itself: the most intense and effective project of a community of experimental musicians who opened their creative minds in an age post to “Agrupación Ciudadanos”. Their work has demonstrated a continued exploration during two decades including tours to Europe, Japan and China.
It was in 2004 when Akinetón Retard reached the rank of “avant-garde rock superstars”. A tour through Europe during five months, beginning on May, with 20,000 km on the road and forty six concerts in twenty four cities placed the band in a high stand being qualified as “latino jazz underground”, “orchestraler jazz”, “urban strong jazz” or “Frank Zappa versus Godzilla styles, but more jazzy and cool”.
Their following jump abroad was a faraway tour to China and Japan in 2007, to play concerts in places such as The Contemporary Music Conservatory in Beijing and theatres in Osaka and Tokyo. The EFE Agency correspondent described his experience in Beijing as “music loaded with optimistic anguish”. - David Ponce
“We have analysed some concerts of the Akinetón Retard group. During the first seven minutes, the audience shows a question mark on the frown. After twenty minutes they are surprised by a winding discharge of improvisation, noise and incandescent scandal. After thirty five minutes they are in a floating trance. At sixty minutes they roar like animals. At eighty five the sweat cold. Near the one hundred and ten, some ask for urgency therapy.” - Iñigo Diaz, Emol – Chile
“In “Azufre”, Akinetón Retard goes on strengthening a unique and inimitable work. They do not belong to any trend, plainly they are a whole style in themselves, just like that.” - Héctor Aravena, Rockaxis – Chile
- Spotify
- Akinetón Retard Live at Radio Rock Futuro 88.9 FM - YouTube
- Live Bar de René - Facebook
- Rockódromo 2017 - YouTube
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* Reduced admission at the box office for students and welfare recipients.
