Music from the Soul

...There is nothing more rewarding then to be reading an article like this in the morning paper while you are quietly sipping on your daily fix of Starbuck's coffee. Especially when its about the caliber of talent emerging from the alley ways of ones backyard, Milwaukee. I am not a big fan of post-modern Hip hop anymore, but this group surly reminds of the worth "Hip Hop" once represented it's grass roots. Shortly after arriving back into the Studio, I walked into the inventory warehouse to get a copy of the nominated album, "Carsel De Suenos" (Prison of Dreams).Though prior to arriving here from Florida, I could remember Manuel and I bustin out music video ideas during the long phones conversations leading into the we hours of the night. Now more so, I will finally have the opportunity to turn those ideas into visual realities within our own in-house film production studio (Garno Films). I am grateful and thankful to God for the path he has helped me carve and also leading me into my destiny here. It is funny how life has its full circle, again Kinto Sol will return to the Latin Billboards where I was first introduced to them. I met the Garcia brothers while I was working the panel room as a journalist during the award ceremonies. Manuel, Kinto Sol lead man was asked by the host of the panel as to where the motivation comes from when writing the bands songs? Manuel intellectually answers with precision..."from the wisdom of our mother earth and the complete circle of the genres of intelligence", he explains to the silenced audience. Soon after his commenting, almost as if a DJ was queued, "Los Hijos De Miaz" ( The Children From Corn) was played for the audience's observation.I was clearly hearing the poetic sounds cultivated with harmonic hooks and sublimely resurrecting lyrics with indigenous histories. If I was an advocate and or a scholar of invincible histories, this is a band that would surly deliver the research in a very profound way. I became an instant fan and or better then that, what the band calls one of it's loyal fans, "Un Soldado Por Vida" ( A solider for Life).
Excitingly, I could remember telling my best female friend "Bella Melissa" about Kinto sol and their passion behind the music. As a documentarian, on several occasions in completely different cities here in the United States.I documented parents holding their infant children up in the air. Almost as if they where offering their children to be baptized by the harmonies of the bands music. Thus far, this is one of the most powerful images I have ever documented in my career. I have also witnessed elderly woman and men alike among the youths against the foregrounds of the stage lip singing to the hypnotic band's lyrics. I often ask myself, where has Kinto Sol been all theses years?? My answer to this question through research is..."Radio play and it's programmers have had their ears distorted by not allowing themselves to listen clearly."
Kinto Sol, I believe, has rightfully earn its place within the structure of Hip Hop. In addition to their independent success, Kinto Sol has earn multi-able Gold albums and consecutive billboard award nominations "without absolutely NO Radio Play". This is an industry miracle...