Doctor Krapula arrives at the Latin Grammy with messages of Unity

The members of Doctor Krapula, known Colombian rock band, which has opened the way with a honest proposal focused on making music with social content that can create awareness in the audience, are quite happy after the Grammy nomination in 2012,  for 'Best Rock Song', thanks to the hit 'Exigimos'.

We talked on the phone with Mario Munoz and German Martinez and they told us about the importance of the nominations and revealed some secrets about the sixth studio album ‘Viva El Planeta’, production that includes 10 songs with rock sound, dedicated to the world, to love and to the people.

How have news of the Latin Grammy nomination taken you?

“By surprise: we were really happy. When they broke the news, we never thought it was for 'Exigimos'. It’s a strong theme that we never considered as an option in the context of the Grammys, however, it made us happy.

How was the success of 'Exigimos' born?

It 'a song that we wrote to make a musical-historical document that summed up the feeling of the whole Latin America in times of protest. As you make a march for the public education, to protect sites from the threat of mines, ask for changes to the government, or against torture to animals, we wanted to collect all these feelings of protest in the streets in a song, looking forward to create the soundtrack of the Latin American struggle.

How do you judge the work of the bands who are with you in the category 'Best Rock Song'?

Even if we do not know most of the artists that are in the category, apart from the 'Cuarteto de Nos', which we consider a great group, we started doing research and discovered the talent of the other groups as 'Los Mesoneros', they are doing a great job.

What are the plans of the band after the participation in the Latin Grammy?

Now we are well into the tour in Colombia and after the ceremony we will begin to make plans for the launch of the new album in Argentina and Mexico. Then we will enter the production process of the next tour in Canada and Europe. If all goes well even play in Japan.

What's new in the album ‘Viva el Planeta’?

We started as a band of Ska and Punk in the neighborhood. Over time we found a distinctive sound and we became a quintet. Our sound leans more on the guitars and keyboards than on wind instruments and percussion arrangements. The more incisive and clear proposal that we make is that we make music with content and social and environmental messages. The music is a complement, we make music that complements the texts, or viceversa are texts that complement the music.

How do you think the band would sound at the side of Shakira?

Although we never had contacts with her in musical terms, we respect and admire her as the great artist she is. It would be interesting to invite her to participate in one of our side-projects. Now for example, we are making a record for the Amazon and it would be nice to count on her entry along with other Latin American artists against mines explotation in the area. For these causes no discrimination shall be made.

What is your contribution to peace in Colombia?

We contribute actively and we’ve done it for years creating music that builds and makes people foster peace with songs offering disarmament dialogue,  a NO against war and respect: this is our tangible contribution to achieve it. Art as an instrument of social construction is very important. We make political music, because ours is a message broadcasted to the masses. In the media we express ourselves publicly in favor of dialogue. In Colombia there have been years of trying to put an end to the war by making more war and we are against it. Now that there are winds of change, we are supporting them through the media and push the institutions to finally put an end to the conflict in our country.

 "From Bogota, Colombia all the people of Doctor Krapula united sends greetings to whole Latin America. Hugs, we are connected. " These were the parting words of the boys, who aspire to triumph in the great celebration of Latin music which will take place November 15 in Las Vegas.

Source: Internet - 2012