DESVELO

Cumbia, salsa, rap, reggaeton, corridos and Mexican music, often in the same song.

Recording our first album at Babel Audio Lab and Transistor Mix Room

The band

DESVELO was born in Mexico City, somewhere between the folk music we grew up with, the cumbia we love to dance to and the new wave of Mexican urban music. Emilio Lezama and Daniel Sandoval came from LEZ; then Franco Trueba joined, and with El Dragón on drums we started writing.

The idea is to bring together rhythms that are all, somehow, Latin American, and to use instruments nobody associates with those genres: classical music next to a cumbia, a rock bridge in a tropical song, drums and synthesizers in a corrido.

Emilio Lezama
Daniel Sandoval
Franco Trueba
Luis Felipe “El Dragón” Jáureguidrums

The album

Eleven songs. Most celebrate the light, danceable side of Latin America; a couple go somewhere much sadder.

Cumbia, ska and a bit of reggaeton, with a classical-music opening.
Lotería
Rap, reggaeton, pop and salsa, built like a jigsaw puzzle.
La Habana
Tropical, poppy and made for dancing. Tastes like caimito.
Con Quien Yo Quiera
Rio de Janeiro and the Mexican Caribbean, with an alternative rock bridge.
Destiempo
A cumbia about a toxic relationship.
Reina
The accident that made us rap.
Nena
A rap walking across Mexico City to Reforma.
Dos Estrellas
The first song the four of us wrote together.
Extraño
A corrido tumbado with drums and synthesizers.
Pura Metralleta
A mariachi pum-pam-pam. José Alfredo is back!
Infinitos
Light loves that the water washes away.
Espuma