Album Notes

Through the last 7 years vocal/guitar duo Pat Y Chaco has fascinated audiences everywhere they’ve been from Colombian top academic contest to Yale University in New Haven to Ricardo Gabrielli´s film Cuando Rompen Las Olas. Their sound is a dynamic ensemble of vocals and guitar defining a new music genre by combining jazz, Colombian roots, world and popular music. On 2009 Pat y Chaco released their self produced album Satyagraha through the independent label ChacoWorldMusic. It includes Special guests’ collaborations from top Colombian musicians such as Antonio Arnedo, Gabriel Rondon and Martina Camargo. This studio album has performed extremely well in the Colombian independent market with excellent reviews and radio play on national radio stations. Their first single from Pat y Chaco´s album Satygraha debuted at number 7 on the top 10 of colombia´s national radio chart and performed even better week after week. On july 21 "El tintero" hit the first spot!!!

REVIEWS
The unique style developed by Pat y Chaco is spectacular!!! Their sound is rich, fresh and smooth and their lyrics are dreamy and surrealistic.
Paty´s voice is sometimes sweet and sometimes aggressive while Chaco´s guitar shows a unique style with very contrasting influences from Colombian native drums to Jimi Hendrix to Joe Pass.

Gabriel Rondon
(Guitarrist and arranger- One of the Jazz pioneers in Colombia with a five decades career)



An amazing performance by a beautiful voice that knows and feels every single word she sings, joined by an instrument that creates moods, improvises and mixes extraordinary guitar techniques.

Manuel Bernal Martinez
(Musical Investigator and University professor)


The musical journey through Pat Y Chaco album Satyagraha sets different moods, styles, musical genres and distant cultures. Collaborations from Colombian top musicians such as jazz pioneers Antonio Arnedo and Gabriel Rondon and traditional Tambora singer Martina Camargo get Pat y Chaco sound even more interesting.

Eduardo Carrizosa Navarro
Orchestral Conductor
National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia
Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra



MEMBERS SHORT BIOs

Patricia Bermudez - Vocals, Tap, Keyboard
Young Singer, songwriter and actress with more than 20 years of experience.At the early age of 6, Patricia started to sing professionally recording jingles and TV commercials. Patricia grew up singing,acting and dancing
on Colombian’s lead musical theater company, Misi, starring severalproductions such as The Wizard Of Oz, West Side Story, Grease and Annie.

Patricia is better known in Latin-America as a tv star for her work on soap operas La Saga, Sin Ruta and Super Pa, where in the last two she also composed and performed songs for.She is now acting in two new series for two mayor international channels.

Manuel Andres Garcia - Guitar
Composer, songwriter and producer. At a very young age (24) began his work in the National Association of Symphony Music and successfully pioneered scoring Traditional music from Natives Colombian communities for The National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia. Most important Colombian Conductors have conducted his works such as Luis Biava (Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra USA) Alejandro Posada (Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra, Spain) Eduardo Carrizosa (National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia) and Francisco Rettig (Bogota Philharmonic). His catalog includes Colombian and Contemporary Music for Solo Piano, Camera, Pitched percussion ensembles, Full Orchestra, Orchestra and Choir and a variety of Colombian native instruments such as Marimba de Chonta, Cuatro llanero, Tiple and Gaitas. His Piece PEQUEÑA SUITE PARA CORO MIXTO was awarded Winner of the 10th BOGOTA MUSIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION on 2006 and since 2003 he has won many Contests promoted by the Distrital Institute of Culture and Tourism of Bogota. Right now Garcia is producing music for his own record label Chaco World Music wich focus on roots music from Colombia.