Biography
Simah is a musical ensemble that uses rhythms from the roots of American folklore, that process generated by the cultural fusion of Africans, Americans and Spaniards who explore the Andean and tropical regions.
Listening to Simah you can travel through multicoloured mountains and starry skies, or inside a molecule or an atom in the middle of space. Hero's journey, spiritual exploration, transcendence, with a contemporary lyric, and a rhythmic search for the traditional.
With lyrics, voice and drone, Julián Gándara (Botis Cromático, Charly García) faces his intimate and spatial project. The band is also made up of Diego Cruzado (Guiñapo) on guitar, Guadalupe Soria (Lupe y sus amores) on vocoder, winds, percussion and Juana Peralta Ramos (Shona) on synth bass, sampler and African dum.
Simah is a name that doesn't belong to a particular genre, it came out of the Middle East (like the language itself) and gives name to a certain deity. When we listen to Simah we may think that we are listening to songs that have already been played, and although they are new compositions, this rescue of traditional rhythms gives us the sensation of riding a wave that has been surfing for a long time, although it has been a long time since it hit our ears in a renewed way.
Simah does not seek to cross styles, but to renew the timbre of a traditional sound. The result generates a certain ecstasy, a mixture of novelty and tradition.
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