Dos Santos

Dos Santos (formerly Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta) is a quintet based in Chicago. Their music reflects their varied backgrounds in Mexican, Central American, Puerto Rican and American music with a wide variety of Latin American rhythms and song styles, typically modernized or updated in some way. This may take the form of a simple update of instrumentation or complete transformation into psychedelic rock or some sub-genre of indie rock/pop, the constants being the drumming of Peter "Maestro" Vale and Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo leaving no doubt about the Latin American basis and Alex Chavez's emotive tenor, almost exclusively in Spanish. The result can, at times, recall other cultural adaptations of American psychedelia, such as Dengue Fever. At others, the mixture of styles resembles more Cuban-influenced Afrobeat. Dos Santos will certainly leave you guessing what to expect from one song to the next and their musicianship and energy make for memorable live performances.