If I could make it over to Uruguay and reach the historical capital of Montevideo, I’d love to catch a performance by underground synth artist VeRa. Born Veronica Ramos in 1983, the native Montevidean artist studied with a focus on piano, composition and soundtrack creation at the National School of Film Experimentation and Realization. As a multi-instrumental artist, she worked with several music groups before producing her first solo album “A Void Filled with Sound” in 2014 and has since issued six releases, “The Awakening” 2020, “Crisalida/Ocaso” 2021 and "The Fall" in May 2022 followed by her third album "El Silencio Es Musica" July, of the same year. Her latest single “Judgment” appeared in January 2023. VeRa has been doing shows in her hometown and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She balances teaching piano professionally and producing new material.
After finding her tracks “Carmilla Stoned” and “Follow the Voice” on
Beatport, I fell right into her expression of wavey synthpop woven with
Electronic Body Music, an electro-industrial dance genre that came about in
Belgium and Germany around the early 1980’s as a derivative of Kraftwerk. The
term “Body Music” translates from kΓΆrpermusik,
which was used by the group Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) to describe their
sound.
VeRa’s patterns are very catchy. She is dark without the dread, poppy but not cheesy and intense in the right moments. Tracks like "Dorians After Party" gives me an image of a really cool afters going on in a nice apartment, and while everyone is having a good time there is still some kind of distress or deviance in the air.
Ramos first began to learn piano at age 11, "Penumbra" and the "Crisalida/Ocaso" single highlight her brilliance as a pianist outstandingly.
She said in an translated interview with culture journalist Emilio Perez Miguel on cooltivarte.com
" Without a doubt I am part of the underground/electronic scene. A niche that has been formed in recent years with the global growth of electronic music, made up of solo projects and bands of musicians who, in many cases, come from other genres. Personally, I feel very comfortable with the place I occupy in the Uruguayan music scene, what I always seek is to be able to reach more ears and share my music with as many as are interested."
She's obviously reached me well enough to consider a trip to Uruguay to watch not only herself play but it would also be dope to find other DJ's and artists from this scene. I might even be able to meet Dorian and join one of his after parties.
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