Daniel Puente Encina

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Daniel Puente Encina
Daniel Puente Encina with Dobro (2013). Photo: Roger Askew
Daniel Puente Encina with Dobro (2013).

Photo: Roger Askew

General information
Genre (s) Latin, Blues, World, Global Fusion, Independant, Desert Rock
Website www.danielpuenteencina.com

Daniel Puente Encina (* 1965 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean composer, songwriter, guitarist, singer and actor.

Life

Education and music career

Daniel Puente Encina began his music career as an autodidact as a child, but did not get his first guitar and a lesson from his father until he was 12 years old. He later studied music and social sciences at the Universidad de Chile .

Los Pinochet Boys (1984–1987)

Known as "Dani Puente" was Daniel Puente Encina 1984-1987 Leader, singer, composer and bass player of the anti-fascist Teenage- New Wave - post-punk -Rock Band Pinochet Boys from Santiago de Chile during the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet one of the first punk rock bands in the country. Daniel's texts were critical of the regime and the wild, explosive and boisterous appearances of the teenagers, now a symbol of the Chilean revolution, are described in numerous books, documentaries and a TV series. In 1984 Carlos Fonseca, friend of the band and presenter of the show Fusión contemporánea on “Radio Beethoven”, offered the Pinochet Boys a record deal with his father Mario Fonseca's record label Fusión , if they were willing to change their provocative band name, but the rebellious youngsters beat it Offer vehemently. So the record deal later went to Los Prisioneros . Carlos Fonseca is now working with Manuel García. The secret concerts of the Pinochet Boys soon sparked a youth movement in the capital of Chile and were often canceled by the police after just a few pieces. The four band members were persecuted, harassed, threatened and often sent to prison for their brightly colored hair. After only three years of band history, the Chilean government took countermeasures and the Pinochet Boys were expelled from their home country by the military regime for causing public nuisance. Two recordings exist as acoustic witnesses of the times: Botellas contra el pavimiento / En mi tiempo libre and La música del general / Esto es Pinochet Boys on compact cassette that has been copied over and over again for decades, remastered in 2012 by the Hueso Records label and on vinyl as a 7 ″ -Single, with a limited edition of only 500 pieces , were immortalized under the name Pinochet Boys .

Daniel Puente Encina Berlin (2013). Photo: Roger Askew

Niños Con Bombas (1994-1999)

After self-organized concert tours through South America and Europe, Daniel Puente Encina moved to West Berlin at the end of the 80s, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall . There he made friends with the musicians of the Einstürzende Neubauten , who would later open the doors for him for his first big tour. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Daniel moved to Hamburg, where he was part of the independent scene of the so-called Hamburg School and shared the stage with many different artists such as Tocotronic , Blumfeld and Die Goldenen Zitronen . In Hamburg he founded the multicultural Latin - Jazz - Ska- Rock band Niños Con Bombas , which was awarded the John Lennon Talent Award in 1995 and enjoyed great success in Europe, the USA and South America with songs like Skreamska and Postcard . In Germany, the multicultural trio from Chile, Brazil and Germany gained a loyal fan base with their alternative Latin music as a support act for the Einstürzende Neubauten . Niños Con Bombas signed contracts with record labels such as Intercord , Potomak, WEA Records and “Grita! Records ”, label of the first Bad Religion drummer Jay Ziskrout , and released two albums: Niños Con Bombas de tiempo en el momento de la explosión (1996), produced by Niños Con Bombas and Chris Rolffsen in the Altona Studios in Hamburg and El Niño (1997), produced by Thies Mynther . In 1998, at the height of their career, they played in front of more than 90,000 spectators at the Rock al Parque Festival in Bogotá , before they split up in Los Angeles in 1999 due to internal discrepancies.

Polvorosa (2000-2011)

In 2000 Daniel changed the music genre, produced under the name Polvorosa and created a new music style in Barcelona: "Latin-Electro-Clash". Polvorosa toured with great success with Chambao and Ojos de Brujo through Spain and Portugal and soon after across Europe. His song “Behind de mi House” from the 2004 album Radical Car Dance was named a hit on the international dance slopes and the clip for the song by MTV Spain was named one of the “Best Music Videos 2004”. Since 2009 Daniel Puente Encina has banned the electronic component from his music in order to give his new compositions natural energy and an earthy sound. He presented the result, a mixture of Latin, Desert Rock , Jazz and World Fusion, in Europe and was invited to a series of concerts in Israel in 2011 by the Spanish cultural institute Instituto Cervantes .

Daniel Puente Encina, Backstage at the White Trash Club, Berlin (2013). Photo: Roger Askew

Solo career (since 2012)

Daniel Puente Encina has been producing under his own name since 2012, and in the spring of the same year released his minimalist, blues-based album Disparo (Schuss), which, in addition to nine new compositions, includes a current version of "Botellas contra el pavimento" as a personal homage to his first music group, " Los Pinochet Boys "includes and toured in their native Chile, Spain, Denmark and Germany. In 2013 he continued his Germany tour with the support of the Catalan cultural institute Institut Ramon Llull and invited the New York soul singer Monica Green, granddaughter of The Cabineers singer-songwriter Margaret "Maggie" Price to the studio to work on his songs Lío and Mike Tyson to give a Motown touch afterwards.

In July 2014, Daniel Puente Encina's second solo album Chocolate con Ají (Chocolate with Chili) followed, a cosmopolitan mix of genres and a personal best-of unreleased songs with a variety of styles, including South American music, rhythm'n blues and Caribbean Rhythms can be heard, which he presented in Denmark, at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival , in Germany and Italy. He has been on a European tour since 2015. He was accompanied by the Italian multi-percussionist Vito Giacovelli and the Japanese double bass player Akira Andō . In August 2015 he performed as a quintet at the Bamberg Blues & Jazz Festival , and in December 2015 he presented himself with four concerts at the 31st Habana International Jazz Festival "Jazz Plaza".

On Labor Day 2016, he published the video "Freire", illustrated by the Chilean artist Cristián Montes Lynch, which tells the story of a mine worker in the Andes. The single is part of Puente Encina's album Chocolate con Ají. The video is in the style of graphic design of the 1960s and 1970s in Chile at the time of the Unidad Popular , when social movements reached their peak before they were brutally suppressed across Latin America. The song reflects Puente Encina's critical view of capitalism as an unjust, dysfunctional system.

In 2017 he recorded a piano version of his smooth jazz classic "Odd Desire" with the Mallorcan organist and pianist "Llorenç Barceló".

On June 14, 2019, Daniel Puente Encina released his third solo album Sangre y Sal with 11 songs that are inspired by the influence of Africa on the Música Criolla of Chile, Peru and Argentina.

In November 2019 Daniel Puente Encina was awarded the Lukas music prize (The Latin UK Awards) in the “European Jazz / Folk Act of the Year” category.

Musical influences and style

Daniel Puente Encina processes and creates very different styles of music. In the times of the Pinochet Boys, for example, he presented a mixture of New Wave and Post-Punk. Niños Con Bombas combined Latin, Jazz, Ska and Rock with punk elements.

Under the name Polvorosa , Puente Encina created what he called the Latin Electro Clash in 2004, which established itself under the name Electro Latino . According to his website, he calls his latest creations “Furious Latin Soul”, “Rebel Tango” or “Dixie Country Ska”.

Disparo is a minimalist album that combines R&B , Son , Reggae elements and Bolero with African and Afro-Peruvian rhythms. On his album

Chocolate con Ají he mixes South American music, rhythm and blues and Caribbean rhythms and switches from Boogaloo Blues, 60s Latin Soul, Samba Funk and Latin Rap to Dixie Country Ska, Slow Swing or Cuban indie ballads.

In his third solo album Sangre y Sal meet afroperuanische rhythms, flamenco -Nuancen, Guaguancó , Zamba and Vals peruano on Latin Swing and boleros .

Daniel Puente Encina sings mostly in Spanish, but uses several languages. For Niños Con Bombas he wrote individual songs like Ton Ego n'est pas toi partly in French, in Polvorosa times it was occasionally in Portuguese and today he sings selected songs in English or Spanglish .

He plays various guitars and changes during his concerts often from the Dobro - Resonator to a Höfner - electric guitar from 1962 and a classic guitar Camps. Daniel Puente Encina has been part of the official artist roster of Godin (guitar manufacturer) in Germany since 2018 and presents himself with a Godin Multiac Grand Concert Duet Ambiance acoustic guitar , a mixture between electric and acoustic guitar.

Score, film and television

In the 1990s, the German-Turkish film director Fatih Akin became aware of the Niños Con Bombas and contacted Daniel Puente Encina. This was the beginning of a long collaboration. Puente Encina's compositions Cocomoon and Nunca Diré can be heard on the soundtrack of Fatih Akin's crime film Short and Painless . Daniel later composed songs such as El Amor se demora or Ramona for Akin's road movie In July (2000), in which he also had a guest appearance with Niños Con Bombas with the song Velocidad . Not here wrote Daniel Puente Encina for Fatih Akin's hit movie Gegen die Wand (2004). In 2005 he composed the score for Una película de temor , a short film by Sergio Pineda. In 2012 Daniel Puente Encina was interviewed by Joe Vasconcellos during his five-week tour of Chile for the music documentary about Jorge González (Chilean singer): El baile de los que sobran . In April 2015 he appeared in a supporting role as "Sadler", a PEN congress visitor in Buenos Aires, in the film Before the Dawn by Maria Schrader . The film was nominated for the German Film Award 2016 in two categories: Maria Schrader for best director and Barbara Sukowa for best female supporting role .

Discography

Pinochet Boys

  • 2012 - Pinochet Boys , 7 "vinyl

Niños Con Bombas

  • 1996 - Niños Con Bombas de tiempo en el momento de la explosión (Album)
  • 1997 - El Niño (album)
  • 1998 - Short and painless (Songs Cocomoon and Nunca Diré : Original Soundtrack)
  • 1998 - Rolling Stone New Voices, Vol. 21 (compilation)
  • 1999 - Elektro Latino Vol.1 (compilation)
  • 2000 - In July (Song Ramona : Original Soundtrack / Cameo: "Velocidad" played live)
  • 2004 - Against the Wall (Songs "Postcard" and Cocomoon : Original Soundtrack)

Polvorosa

  • 2000 - Popkomm Sampler (compilation)
  • 2000 - In July (Song El amor se demora : Original Soundtrack)
  • 2004 - Against the Wall (Song Not here : Original Soundtrack)
  • 2004 - Radical Car Dance (Album)
  • 2004 - Electronic Latin Freaks (compilation)
  • 2004 - Barcelona Raval Sessions (compilation)
  • 2006 - Sex, City, Music: Barcelona (compilation)

Solo albums

  • 2012 - Disparo (shot), (album)
  • 2014 - Chocolate con Ají (Chocolate with Chili), (Album)
  • 2019 - Sangre y Sal (Blood and Salt), (Album)

Filmography (selection)

documentary

  • 2012 - El baile de los que sobran. Music documentary about Jorge González . Contemporary witness of their own musical history., Chile, TV series: Doremix with Joe Vasconcellos, book: Cristián Freund, Fernando Fuentes, Rodrigo Sepúlveda , directors: Werner Giesen, Rodrigo Sepúlveda, production: CNTV, Zoofilms, first broadcast: September 9, 2012 on TVN , TV Chile

Awards

literature

  • Jorge Canales Cabrera: Punk chileno, 1986 - 1996: 10 años de autogestión . Camino y No Patria, Santiago de Chile 2019 (Spanish).
  • James Greene Jr .: Brave Punk World: The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Maryland, USA 2017, ISBN 978-1-4422-6984-2 (English).
  • Emiliano Aguayo: Las voces de los '80. Conversaciones con los protagonistas del fenómeno pop-rock . RiL, Santiago de Chile 2014, ISBN 978-1-4492-9906-4 (Spanish).
  • Marisol García: Canción Valiente 1960–1989. Tres décadas de canto social y político in Chile . Ediciones B Chile, Santiago de Chile 2013, ISBN 978-956-304-144-6 (Spanish).
  • Gonzalo Donoso: Retratos Músicos Chilenos 1986–2012 . Pehuén, Santiago de Chile 2012, ISBN 978-956-16-0570-1 (Spanish).
  • Miguel Conejeros: Pinochet Boys. Chile (1984-1987) . 1st edition. Midia Comunicación, Santiago de Chile 2008, ISBN 978-956-8331-08-5 (Spanish).
  • Óscar Contardo, Macarena García: La era ochentera. Tevé, pop y under en el Chile de los ochenta . Ediciones B Chile, Santiago de Chile 2005, ISBN 956-304-006-6 (Spanish).

Press review

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polvorosa: el lado oscuro de la música “latina”. In: dw.com. DW.COM, February 5, 2011, accessed on July 13, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ David Ponce: Daniel Puente Encina - Ciudadano (fuera) del mundo (Daniel Puente Encina - Citizens of the world outside the world). El Mercurio On-line (Emol) , April 11, 2012, accessed October 8, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Stark: Winner of the "John Lennon Sponsorship Award '95": the groups SubOrange Frequency and Ninos Con Bombas. Rolling Stone , June 3, 1995, accessed October 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Stark: Rise from the Underground. Hamburger Abendblatt , April 21, 1995, accessed October 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ El Tiempo editorial team: Tres ángelitos que juegan con material musicalmente explosivo (Three little angels playing with musically explosive material). El Tiempo (Colombia), October 23, 1998, accessed September 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ El Tiempo editorial staff: Tres días de Woodstock a la criolla (Three days of Woodstock à la Criolla). El Tiempo (Colombia), October 8, 1998, accessed September 10, 2017 .
  7. ^ Andrés Panes: Daniel Puente Encina - El retorno del cowboy espacial (Daniel Puente Encina - The return of the space cowboy). Rockaxis, May 12, 2012, accessed February 6, 2013 .
  8. ^ Carlos Salazar: Daniel Puente, ex Pinochet Boys: "Fuimos los primeros hipsters" (Daniel Puente, ex Pinochet Boys: "We were the first hipsters"). La Nación , June 23, 2014, accessed October 1, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Juan Carrasco: Daniel Puente Encina - Chocolate Con Ají. Rockaxis, September 12, 2014, accessed March 5, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Culture department: Daniel Puente Encina lanza su video clip de animación "Freire" (Daniel Puente Encina publishes his animation video "Freire"). El Mostrador, May 2, 2016, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  11. ^ Website Daniel Puente Encina: May 1st, International Workers 'Day: Daniel Puente Encina presents his astonishing new animated music video "Freire" (May 1st, International Workers' Day: Daniel Puente Encina presents his amazing new animated music video "Freire") . News - Artist's official website, May 1, 2016, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  12. ^ Editing of new music releases: Daniel Puente Encina. Foerde Radio, April 25, 2019, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Eddy Czesnick: Artist: Daniel Puente Encina - Title: Sangre y Sal.Sound analysis, July 6, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ The Lukas: The winners 2019. Latin UK Awards Official Website, November 6, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Rockaxis: Daniel Puente Encina recibe importante premio en el extranjero - El ex Pinochet Boys fue reconocido en el Reino Unido (Daniel Puente Encina receives an important award abroad - The former Pinochet Boys received an award in the UK). Rockaxis Online, November 14, 2019; accessed December 17, 2019 .
  16. ^ Dano: Sangre y Sal - Daniel Puente Encina. Plasma Magazine, July 8, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Puente Encina, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puente, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean composer, songwriter, guitarist, singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile