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English: Kovács Bálint, Tumba y Quema band. Live on the 28th of August, Gödör, Downtown Budapest. The group has appeared at all the major Hungarian world music festivals and in many well known alternative clubs. Most of their numbers are composed by David Dely, the group’s percussionist and leader. They are based on Colombian and Afro-Caribbean rhythms and spiced with a wide variety of global music influences. Their music always radiates the joie de vivre characteristic of the Caribbean, a melting pot of races and cultures. The Spanish expression ‘tumba y quema’ refers to the slash and burn technique used to clear tropical rainforests, but it is also used in a figurative sense: when you want to start something new, you first have to burn your old junk. Moreover, in some regions of Latin America the word “tumba“ is used for various kinds of drums and dances. Music & Drums from Colombia, with the afrocolombian spirit empowered by modern beats of rock, reggae, hip-hop and afrobeat. Tumba y Quema has developed its own sound combining different styles and rhytms from Colombia, Caribbean countries and the African influence whithin those cultures, using at the same time standard musical concepts such as rock , hip-hop, reggae, brazilian rhythms, afrobeat, jazz and more. Tumba y Quema goes beyond by adding strength and richness to its groove with rhythms and music styles from other culture, that is to say, oriental patterns and traditional melodies from Hungary, India, West Africa, Australia, Spain, NorthAmerica, attempting thus to ilustrate with its music the concept of Unity in Diversity. All this, we call it TRIBALGLOBAL. Claudia Andrade: Lead vocal David Dely:Percussion ,flutes, guitar Shango Dely: congas, Alegre Drum Marton Takacs:Tambora drum, percussion Aldo Acevedo: Bass Kovacs Norbert: Drums Kovacs Balint: guitar Tumba y Quema`s main influence comes from Millero Congo, the pioneer of TRIBALGLOBAL, founded by Istvan Dely - who was the first conga player in the history of Latin Music in Western Europe - and formed by his Family (Istvan, Leonor (his wife), and their two sons David and Shangó). The band’s story starts over 30 years ago when Istvan Dely receives the title, given by his drum-master, of Millero Congo in cuba in his early years of formation as a percussionist. In 1984, with his own family, he creates „El Cabildo de tambores Millero Congo,” The first formal percussion school and experimental root fusion band in Colombia. Coming from this school, the two boys, David and Shango, years later become important percussionist and musicians in their home land as well as abroad, performing and recording for superstars Carlos Vives and Carlos Santana, among others, collaborating with great producer KC Porter, composing and leading their own bands and experiments, and creating their own percussion school which goes around in Europe, the „DelyPercussion School.” Tumba Y Quema’s lead vocal, composer and founder of the band, David Dely explains: „ .The world today is living a time of synthesis; it is dificult to have only one influence in this world of diversity. Precisely that is what brings about the beauty of this era. I think every sound on the street, every song on the radio, every musician around, influences me and my music”.