El Guincho

Doors 10 p.m. / Show 10:30 p.m.
$12
18+

New world music has arrived and nobody presents it better than 24 year old Pablo Diaz-Reixa – aka El Guincho – a musician based in Barcelona and raised in the Canary Islands, who feeds traditional island song, African rhythms and sampled psychedelics through an MPC to create something entirely new.


El Guincho might be named after a bird from the Canaries that always flies alone, but his music finds finds common ground in the global transfusions of MIA and CSS, the gypsy spirit of Gogol Bordello, the afro beats of Vampire Weekend and the ice cream layering of Four Tet and Animal Collective. Yet his music is also thick with the surf’s up happiness of the Beach Boys, the whizz bang thrills and spills of tropicalistas like Os Mutantes, and the magic realism that inspired Pablo’s literature, bringing musical ghosts to life in the eternal sunshine of the present.