Sotelúm | |
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Sotelúm's 2015 promotional photo
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Background information | |
Birth name | Jorge Sotelo Mexico |
Also known as | שלוּם סוטלו Israel |
Born |
Tijuana, Mexico |
December 1, 1989
Origin | Sephardic |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Music producer, musician, songwriter |
Instruments | Synthesizer, Trumpet |
Years active | 2006–present |
Labels | Share The Light Music |
Associated acts | Nortec Collective, Sonidero Travesura and Pato Banton |
Website | www |
Sotelúm (Shlúm «Lúm» Sotelo Hebrew: שלוּם; born December 1, 1989 in Tijuana) is a mod independent music artist, listed by UABC Radio and other local press media as a very elemental post-nortec visionary in the Mexican avant garde of electronic music.
From his early experiences as trumpet player, Sotelúm always express their affinity for Mexican folklore and Hebrew music especially sephardic brass and klezmer styles, but his music career began professionally in 2006 when he got grouped into a mariachi street band on the world famous Santa Cecilia square, where he practiced the Mexican music tradition, unnoticed until 2008.
From 2008 Sotelúm performed live in many projects included Nortec Panoptica Orchestra, Pato Banton & The Ghostownians and Sotelúm & The Minarete Brass Orchestra (being this last project from his own production).
In early 2010, with the help of Pato Banton Sotelúm founded Share The Light Music and launch his first studio LP; Minarete Brass an album that mixed Mexican folk music from the huasteca and tapatia regions with American standard styles like swing and jazz, clearly influenced by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
During hanukkah 2011, Sotelúm exposes their first formal approach to electronic music with the exposure of their first studio EP; Synthetiklezmer a bold and experimental fusion between sephardic brass and klezmer with the drum machines and synthesizers that introduce him to the EDM scene, the EP counted with the special collaboration of Gustavo Bulgach, Argentine-American clarinetist and bandleader of Klezmer Juice and Yiddish Tango Club.