MORE ON PERNETT!

Pernett has just released ‘El Mago’, an album produced in Cali, where he actually resides. His progressive folklore is fully charged in this album that also includes important collaborations with top local talent, and is a union of Colombia's Caribbean and Pacific coasts' rhythms. The result is a more universal sound.

Pernett is currently at a new level in his music and this is evident in 'El Mago'. For the first time we get to see what a talented artist he truly is. Apart from composing, producing, mixing and singing , he also recorded the traditional instruments such as percussions, maracas, gaita an guache. All of this without leaving behind his twisted electronic beats, full of synthesizers and special effects.

Since early childhood he was captivated by music, and curiosity made him his own teacher. At age 9 he was making music with a tape recorder, a guitar and a Casiotonebank CTK 120. This musical experiences shaped Pernett’s own rhythms and styles: folklore produced with electronic instruments. This innovative and creative force has become him one of the most important artists of Colombian folklore.

His passion for percussion, learned from the maestro Itsvan Shango Dely and his sons Shangó and David, and his singular attraction to the Carnival of Barranquilla’s music, inherited from his father and his family, who for years have been the presidents of a major dance group folk of this city, nourished him with a unique sound.

Afterwards Pernett goes to Bogota, there he studied music composition at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and, with another caribians, begin to interpret Caribbean folklore at corners and parks in Bogota. In 2002, while working on his first album he meets English producer Richard Blair, and is invited to make part of Sidestepper, Colombia’s most international world music group. Pernett has widely toured with Sidestepper in USA,Mexico, Canada and Europe.

In 2004, Pernett released his first album, an EP called “Musica Pa'Pick Up”, an album of five songs. The first success of this album is called 'Huele a Mariacachafa' and the best known song of this work is 'Caribbean Raver'.

Then in 2006, after an extensive european tour promoting his first EP, he released his second EP “Cumbia Galactica”.

In 2008 he released his first full album “Arbol”, a ground breaking album with collaborations from Visitante Calle 13, son Palenque, Sergio Arias from Malalma y Tostao from Chocquibtown.

With 'El Mago' Pernett has been established as the vanguard force of Colombian music, breaking barriers and experimenting with new elements!

DISCOGRAPHY:
Albums

“El Mago”. Discosoye, 2009
“Arbol”. Polen, 2008
“Cumbia Galactica”. Polen, 2006
“Musica para pick-up”. Sony Music, 2004

Compilations:
“El Arriero”, OST. Colombia. 2009
“Agua, cantos para que fluya”. Colombia. 2009
'LAMC 2009", USA 2009
“Lantin Garden”, Alemania. 2006
“Electrocumbé”, Revista Shock. Colombia. 2006
“Rosario Tijeras”, OST. Colombia. 2005
“Beginner's Guide to Latin Music” , UK. 2005
“LAMC 2005”, USA. 2005
“Latin Flavas Vol. II”, UK. 2003

Pernett’s collaborations:
Calle 13, "La cumbia de los Aburridos", 2007
Dj Stingray, "Las Calles de Cartagena", 2003
Sidestepper, Live performance 2003/2008.


PRESS

“Humberto Pernett is a maker of vibrant Caribbean rhythms. Spycing them up with the exact dose of Electronic elements. To top it all off he owns a very peculiar voice, with a typical accent of Colombia’s Northern coast, and an original diversity in its tones. His carnaval, party mood invites you to dance immediately. With this characteristics he has gained an important space in the current Colombian music scene.” REVISTA ROLLING STONE, “EL CHAMPETERO ORIGINAL” by Daniel Casas Octubre 2008

“A bassline from berlin, a kick drum from chicago, and a load of kit you’ve never seen before from Barranquilla, with flutes, cornets and weird reed instruments crashing through the mix.” THE BIG ISSUE, “COLOMBIAN BLEND” by Michael Powers Noviembre 10-16, 2008

“His CD (‘Arbol’) is ‘worshiped’ ” EL TIEMPO, “LA PIRAMIDE MUSICAL 2008” by Juan Carlos Garay. DICIMBRE 28, 2008

“The surname of Humberto Pernett became one of the symbols of musical renewal of Colombia” SHOCK, “EL FOLCLOR PROGRESIVO DE PERNETT” Septiembre 30, 2009

“So there is evidence to suggest that one hundred years in the Caribbean will be as electronic as organic and that the tree (‘Arbol’) of Colombian music, will have stronger roots and leaves will be from a distance." ARCADIA, “EL ARBOL DEL FOLCLOR PROGRESIVO” by Jose Alejandro Cepeda Enero 2009