{"id":1484,"date":"2021-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofarsoundsblo.wpengine.com\/blog\/articles\/best-of-the-listening-room-metalengua\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:26:02","slug":"listening-room-metalengua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/listening-room-metalengua","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Listening Room: Metalengua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like entering a funhouse, in the best kind of way. <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3gIGCGSknVNY5D17w3CCqh?si=-OvqJRzOSyeMFenlNNUzFA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metalengua<\/a> takes us on a sensory adventure of sonic color, texture, and just\u2026.well, fun. Take a look at their latest Listening Room, then read on for a little more from the group themselves. We have tons of other Listening Room interviews with other Sofar artists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/listening-room-ausar\">Ausar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/listening-room-felisha-george\">Felisha George<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEPCCP138r0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s your go-to album at the moment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTu Reo\u201d, it\u2019s a single by L-gante, not an album but anyway, it is a very successful song with a concept and identity that renews certain canons of what national music\u2019s meant to be.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Can you describe your music style in six words?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hyperactive street chispopsting Latin afrodisiac music.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Name an accomplishment you are most proud of.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This session and the upcoming album that we\u2019re recording.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are you working on right now?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re recording our LP, it\u2019ll be awesome, with fireworks, new planets and asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>[We\u2019re] also recording some new live sessions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Are there any specific albums or artists that have had a big influence on your music career and style?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Violeta Parra, Gilda, Juan Gabriel, Los Peores de Chile, Nina Simone, <em>Alturas de Machu Picchu<\/em>, Chinoy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dream collaboration and why?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Violeta Parra. Why? Why not.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>If you could play a Sofar show anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you want it to be?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sofar Tokyo or New York.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who are three rising artists you\u2019re excited about right now?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>L-Gante, Eufonia Distorsia, Papi Gat0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to see Metalengua and other great artists at a Sofar show? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/\">Check out upcoming shows near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like entering a funhouse, in the best kind of way. Metalengua takes us on a sensory adventure of sonic color, texture, and just\u2026.well, fun. Take a look at their latest Listening Room, then read on for a little more from the group themselves. We have tons of other Listening Room interviews with other Sofar artists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[426,666],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-community","tag-listening-room","tag-metalengua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}