You can support our cause by contributing to make our first full-length album possible, due to be released by the end of 2017. This will also help us to create a whole new community of Venezuelan artists from different generations and fields to come together to deliver a significant art work that includes music, film, literature, painting and other artistic expressions. Always aiming to represent our culture in any piece of land in which each of us have decided to live.
We invite you to have a look at our project and all the ways in which you can contribute. In return for your support, we have created some special gifts as a thank you.
By backing the campaign you would not only receive the first album of Tonto Malembe, which will also include the contribution from other Venezuelan musicians and artists from diverse fields. It will also allow you to get closer to the sociopolitical situation that Venezuela has been through over almost two decades now. Considering how Venezuela has been in the edge of the public opinion because of the crisis we’re still facing, you will have a widely approach of our reality by having a close look at this project and getting this album, which ultimately serves as our personal testimony on Venezuela’s topic.
The Details
To complete this project we need an estimate of £10,000. With this money we´ll be able to cover the recording, mixing and mastering of the entire album. Also it will support in covering travel costs and third-party fees, artworks, video clips and the final release of the album. We would also like to produce a documentary film about this whole process and our approach to the Venezuelan situation, considering both the sociopolitical adversities and the testimonials from other Venezuelan artists on that particular and on their works and careers, in order to show the world more about all what’s happening in Venezuela, for the good and for the bad. The money you donate would also help us to cover the expenses related with to promotion of the album, including the ones resulting in the music tour.
As a retribution for your invaluable support, we have some exclusive rewards for you. You can choose among a digital copy of the album, to have it in the physical format of your choice (CD or vinyl) and other exclusives that we have selected especially for our backers, such as:
- Album in digital format.
- Album in physical format – CD.
- Album in physical format – Vinyl.
- Album in CD + Band T-Shirt.
- Album in CD + Band T-Shirt.
- Album in Vinyl + Band T-Shirt.
- Album in Vinyl + Band Sweater.
- Album in CD or Vinyl + Quitiplás (Traditional Afro Venezuelan drum).
- Album in CD or Vinyl + Cuatro (Traditional Venezuelan string instrument).
- All of the above!
The Impact
In the last years Venezuela has gained interest on the public opinion due to the crisis that it is facing. Contributing financially with the execution of this project will help to allow people from different parts of the world to have a more direct insight to what has been happening in Venezuela: the ascend of chavismo as a political phenomenon, the Venezuelan crisis, and the self-imposed exile; events that have lead in one way or another to the formation of Tonto Malembe as a band of Venezuelan musicians abroad, devoted to create music intimately related with their place of origin.
In relation to the Venezuelan music, the project goes through diverse musical expressions from different regions of Venezuela, which dilute with sounds from genres known as Rock, Funk, Jazz, Soul, Psychedelia, the rhythms of the Caribbean, among others, all amalgamated with the social claims that have been also present in manifestations such as the Punk, Salsa and Rap cultures.
The ultimate intention is to bring to the masses a significant cultural workpiece that originates from different political, economic and social processes experienced by a group of Venezuelan musicians, and from their perspectives and creative appreciation of what they have lived in their place of origin. Venezuela. It is a window to the musical experimentation that gets its inspiration from the everyday life of a country and its transformation as a society.
We’re counting on you. Thank you so much for backing us and support our cause!
