La Misa Negra Announces First Concert Dates For The Spring 2014

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ ER:M+M) La Misa Negra is an 8-piece band from Oakland, California that plays a unique blend of 1950's and 60's style cumbia and high-energy, Afro-Colombian dance music. The symbolism behind their name pays tribute to the genre's African roots and Caribbean heritage, and celebrates the spirit and ritual of dance.

Consisting of ten tracks, the album Misa de Medianoche (Midnight Mass) is a journey across various styles of cumbia, porro, and gaita, beginning with a fast-paced, monster title track meant for a midnight voodoo dance, complete with a growling sax and clarinet duel. The cumbia kicks into mid-tempo groove with songs like the sensually hypnotic, "Por la Bahia", the rootsy, accordion-laced "Cumbia Milagrosa", and the album closer, "La Cumbia Cura", which encourages listeners to leave their pills on the table and let the cumbia do the healing.