As the Puerto Rican independent music scene continues to grow, more musicians from the diaspora are coming back to the island to perform. Some of the bands to keep their presence in the diaspora and Puerto Rico are the electronic groups Buscabulla and Los Walters, while others like Campo-Formio, Orquesta El Macabeo, Los Petardos! and Dan Siego find ways to spread their music while continuing to perform regularly across the homeland. However, one ensemble that hadn’t been able to present their work in Puerto Rico was The Mona Passage, a prog-rock band from the diaspora led by Nuyorican poet Bonafide Rojas. But that all changed this past weekend when the group shared the stage with Cologne in Mayagüez’s La Tertulia en mi Tierra. (promo for the event by Anthony Acevedo) Kicking off the Thursday July 19th night was the west coast indie rock influenced band Cologne who shared their blend of hard, garage and prog-rock making audiences dance, head bang, sing and air guitar to melodies filled with danceable beats and wailing guitars successfully starting what would be a really fun event. (pictures by Fernando E. E. Correa Gonzalez) After Cologne came the guests from the diaspora, the prog-rock group The Mona Passage. Led by poet and guitarist Bonafide Rojas and vocalist Yabey, the experimental band shared their fantastic mixture of spoken word poetry and psychedelic space rock displaying a wide range of influences while creating their own original sound. Furthermore, the ensemble was able to show their love for the Puerto Rico and have some form of open dialogue between island Puerto Ricans and those from the diaspora. (pictures by Fernando E. E. Correa Gonzalez) Last Thursday July 19th was a night about connecting with our brothers from the diaspora through the sweet sounds of rock n’ roll. By having Cologne and The Mona Passage perform together, the audience was treated to the type of dialogue Boricuas from every corner of the world need to have in order to connect as a community.
Listen to The Mona Passage on Spotify and Cologne on Soundcloud
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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