David Dely & TUMBA Y QUEMA

About David Dely & TUMBA Y QUEMA

Colombo-Hungarian artist David Dely releases his first album, Son Maloso, with his Fringe award winning band Tumba y Quema. He has traveled a long way across time and space to get there and the result Son of Hungarian percussionist Istvan Dely and Colombian singer/songwriter Leonor, David was born in Bogotá in 1976 and raised in Cartagena and Barranquilla on the Caribbean Coast, the very heartland of Afrocolombian folklore and Gabriel García Márquez’ magical realism. As a musician he grew up amidst a host of Africaribbean drums and Native American flutes of his father’s percussion school, and together with his parents and his younger brother Shangó has been a pillar of their musical group Millero Congo for over fifteen years, where he was imbued with the spirit of experimentation, world-embracing fusion, creative freedom, always growing from his local roots: the tribalglobal approach. Much of the spirit and instruments of village music, many of the means and sounds of urban music, with a nature and purpose new and ancient.

After leaving the family nest he moved to Bogotá where he formed his own group, Tumba y Quema, a term that has multiple meanings and describes well his musical goals. On the one hand it refers to the slash-and-burn technique in jungle farming; on the other, to burn away old trash to slash a path for the new. And