Album Notes

The former bass player and main writer/composer of venezuelan cult band “La Seguridad Nacional” starts a new chapter in his career with this new and very listenable album. After three full decades walking the road of music and writing songs in spanish that have crossed the paths of Punk, Rockabilly, Folk, Blues and Rock & Roll, YATU is back in the spotlight and his sound is better than ever.

“A Conciencia” is the title of YATU’s first solo album, already a milestone in Venezuelan rock/pop music after its public debut at the Hard Rock Café Caracas on the 20th of September/2006. Since then Yatu has been dealing with a steady flow of media coverage, including TV appearances, radio shows and printed interviews. His fan base continues to grow as old and new followers alike embrace an artist who has been producing real music in Spanish for the last three decades. His work has influenced many other rock and pop bands in Venezuela, as evidenced by the radio success with songs written by YATU “El Vampiro”, “Uñas Asesinas”, “El rap de la ciudad”, “La Luna”, “Joroporoll” and “Nadie es de nadie”

“A Conciencia” contains eleven heart-felt tracks, three of which are already on the playlists of many radio stations in Venezuela: “Mi Oportunidad” and “Amor” were delivered as the first two singles, and most recently “Nadie es de nadie” (track No. 3 on the CD) is threatening to define itself as the album’s smash hit. “A Conciencia” is a very listenable album, perhaps surprisingly listenable coming from an artist who for many people still embodies the punk scene in Venezuela. But it is this Yatu, more mature, with more life experience, the Yatu that sings to a broad cross generational audience, an audience which proves in each of his live performances that age is no limit to lock onto YATU’s music.

An in-depth story about Yatu can be read and seen in the Febuary 2007 Latin American edition of Rolling Stone magazine.

More info and updates about Yatu available:

www.yatumusic.com
www.myspace.com/yatumusic
www.cdboxproducciones.com
www.youtube.com/cdboxproducciones
www.myspace.com/laseguridadnacional

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Juan Bautista López, mejor conocido como YÁTU, es indudablemente un ícono para la historia del rock venezolano. Por más de tres décadas, ha tenido una importante trayectoria con la Kamara de la Tortura (1978-1982) la legendaria agrupación La Seguridad Nacional (1982-1994) Trance Nuance (1994-1996) y La Hermandad (1998-2002), logrado impactar la escena musical del país, influenciando a importantes agrupaciones venezolanas como Sentimiento Muerto, Zapato 3 y los Mentas, quienes han popularizado algunas de sus célebres canciones.

Una guitarra, un corazón y una melodía con el poder de comunicar emociones universales. Una voz inconfundible y un repertorio tan inagotable como la experiencia misma de estar vivo. Una energía que ya es merecidamente legendaria y una mente capaz de llevarnos a un mundo de letras y música, de vivencias y palabras reales, de lucidez y de locura. A ratos con poesía, a ratos con humor, a ratos con rabia, deseo o ironía. Pero siempre con mucho swing.

Para CD Box Producciones es un honor contar con el talento de un artista venezolano de talla internacional. Un hombre nacido y criado en las montañas rojas de la sierra de falcón, lleno de vivencias reales para contar y poseedor de una cultura musical global.

Un especial acerca de YÁTU puede ser leido en la edición numero 37, de Febrero 2007, de la revista Rolling Stone Latinoamerica.

La información actualizada sobre el artista y su agenda de presentaciones puede verse en:

www.yatumusic.com
www.myspace.com/yatumusic
www.cdboxproducciones.com
www.youtube.com/cdboxproducciones
www.myspace.com/laseguridadnacional