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With Pura Actitud, Plu con Pla nominated for 'Best Folk Song' in Premios Nuestra Tierra 2024
April 15, 2024
More than 150 artists in 28 categories are competing in the Premios Nuestra Tierra for the most important award in national music and recognition of their work during the period from January to December 2023. Thirty percent of the votes come from the public, while the remaining 70% will be decided by a musical committee.
For Harold Tenorio, director of Plu con Pla, this nomination is of great relevance, not only for the group but for all the musicians of the Colombian Pacific: “It is definitely very significant for the work we have been doing, because we receive it with great joy and enthusiasm since in one way or another an effort is being made from here, from the regions, to work on our music, to contribute from innovation to the conservation of traditions and relate our music with the new generations,” says this man who has dedicated his life to preserve the folk music of this part of the country.
Plu con Pla Signs with ADA Latin
November 4, 2022
For the first time in history, a group from Tumaco has signed with one of the most influential distribution agencies in the world: ADA Latin. With this contract, Plu con Pla’s music can travel the world via digital platforms.
The band’s first full length album, Pura Actitud (A Matter of Attitude) will be available on all digital platforms from November 24th. The album was made by renowned Colombian music producer Iván Benavides in one of the best recording studios in Colombia: Centro 312 at the ICESI University. This work is all possible thanks to the support of the Ethnic Audiovisual Power strategy, an initiative of Manos Visibles, funded by the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation - Social Justice Fund.
In the same week, Plu con Pla released its third single La Plumuda Llegó (The Plumuda Arrived), a tribute to the spiny fish that has fed entire generations of families in Tumaco and the Colombian South Pacific. With this song and Somos Inmarcesibles (We are Unfading) and Una Oración (A Prayer), the group speaks to the world of the power of Pacific culture, the resilience of its people and the hope that is music in the margins.
Watch the broadcast of the signing here.
Plu con Pla Plays CirculART, Colombia’s Famed Music Showcase
November 6, 2022
This November, Plu con Pla performed at CirculART, the most important music showcase in Medellin: from Tumaco to the world! In addition to taking part in their business roundtable, the band’s showcase performance at CirculART was a journey through the sounds of the traditional music of the Colombian South Pacific, crossed with water, marimba and cununo, and met with the sounds of the African diaspora around the world: reggae, bossa nova and afrobeat.
The Pablo Tobón Uribe Theater was the first to hear upcoming songs like Agua and Rompiendo Leña (Breaking Wood) which will be officially released to the public on November 24th in Plu con Pla's first full length studio album - Pura Actitud (A Matter of Attitude). Alongside La Plumuda Llegó (The Plumuda Arrived), the third single released November 3rd on all digital platforms and Somos Inmarcesibles (We are Unfading) and Una Oración (A Prayer), Plu con Pla’s upcoming release of nine songs will continue to inspire and bring the stories of the Pacific Coast to the most important stages of Colombia and Latin America - and beyond.
This project is possible thanks to the support of the Ethnic Audiovisual Power strategy, an initiative of Manos Visibles funded by the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation - Social Justice Fund.
La Plumuda Llegó:
Out Now On All Platforms
November 3, 2022
Plu con Pla’s latest single, La Plumuda Llegó (The Plumuda Arrived), is now available on all digital music platforms! This song pays tribute to Plumuda con Plátano, a traditional Pacific Coast dish and staple of Tumaco's gastronomy, made up of plantains and Plumada - a spiny fish that’s fed thousands of Afro-descendant families - and that serves as a symbol of community strength in the face of hardship.
This third single, created with the help of renowned Colombian music producer Iván Benavides, features a music video directed by Afro-Colombian filmmaker Jhonny Hendrix and tells the story of the band’s creative process: the importance of composing, recording and making music from collective power - as traditional musicians of the region have always done.
The lyrics, a recipe for the preparation of Plumuda con Plátano, take us on a journey through Tumaco’s diversity - rich in culture and gastronomy. Through music, Plu con Pla and the Pacific Coast speak to the world about their resilience, talent and hope.
An accompanying documentary, also titled La Plumuda Llegó and directed by Jhonny Hendrix - serves as an intimate look at Plu con Pla’s music and the process of creating their new album - Pura Actitud. The step by step visual journey shows the group as the family that it is, the musical dynasty they represent through their wisdom, talent and commitment to community, and the hope that lives in their youngest members.
MORE NEWS FROM PLU CON PLA:
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Plu con Pla in Voz (Spanish)
The musical group from Tumaco has not only made the public dance to the sound of the marimba, the traditional drums of the Pacific and the fusion with reggae, rap and hip-hop, they also narrate through their lyrics the violence, abandonment and the hopes of their territory.
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Agua y Luz: Music of Tumaco and the Afro Colombian Pacific
Currulao is the traditional music of Colombia’s majority-Black, southern Pacific coastal region. In this episode, professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero describes how this performative practice has been used to connect the past to an emerging future as the identification and role of race in Colombia has changed across multiple generations of musicians.
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'Inmarcesible', a song that rewrites the Colombian anthem with rhythms from the Pacific (Spanish)
'Plu con Pla', the group from Tumaco that fuses Pacific rhythms like currulao and bunde or plays with rhythms such as reggae, hip hop and electronics, has released 'Inmarcesible', a song that rewrites the national anthem from the viewpoint and experiences of communities in the peripheries of the country.
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New Music: Plu con Pla offer up Jamaican take on Colombia's Pacific Coast sound
If you’ve been reading this site for a little while now you might have gathered that there is something of an ever-widening spotlight shining on the music emerging from of Colombia’s Pacific coast at the moment. The region has of course been home to some of Colombia’s most exciting groups of recent times.
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Afro-Colombian Music Offers Youths A Rhythmic Alternative To Drug Gangs
While growing up in the crime-ridden town of Tumaco, cocaine smugglers killed his father and Cortez says he was "tempted" to join a rival gang to avenge the murder. Instead, he was lured into another local industry: currulao.
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An Innovative Flavor from Tumaco | RESONANTS
The name Plu con Pla identifies Tumaqueños a as resilient people. Starting from there, and with the support of the Tumac Foundation, a group of young fans of traditional music and dance created a band that explores the sounds of reggae, salsa and hip hop, through the traditional music of the Colombian Pacific. We spoke with the group’s director, Harold Tenorio.