PERFORMERS

Balún are José A. Olivares, Angélica Negrón, Andrés Fontánez, and Noraliz Ruiz from San Juan, Puerto Rico. They like to create music for imaginary films, brought together by their love of simple melodies, 16mm films, cartoon doodles, and experimental pop music. Balún uses electronic and acoustic instruments - harp, violin, accordion, melodica, guitar, Puerto Rican cuatro, tiple, toy piano to build from concrete sounds to fantastic sounds. Chicago-based Brilliante Records released their debut album in 2006. Titled "Something Comes Our Way," it received positive reviews from Allmusic.com, Cyclic Defrost, Textura, XLR8R, Crackers United, The Big Take Over, The Tripwire, Flavorpill, CMJ, among many others. Balún later released new songs on compilations for the German net-label Aerotone and the French net-label Petite & Jolie. In the summer of 2007, New York label Expansion Team Records re-released worldwide a collection of earlier self-released EPs titled "EP Collection" and the group participated in a small tour, visiting cities in the Midwest and the East coast. In October of 2007 the band performed at the Pop Montreal Fest, to much praise. Currently, members of Balún are now pursuing graduate degrees at NYU and Kent State.