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Que Chimba! MORAT

March 28, 2025
The Colombian band Morat reflects on their beginnings and takes a nostalgic journey through their evolving fashion choices over the years.
Show transcript
00:00
Familia, me too,
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please help me welcome Mora.
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Stan, how are you guys buenoso.
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I know, listen,
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I'm a fan. I'll say it right here,
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but for those who don't know,
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how did Murat form and come together to create what we love
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so much now? Well,
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it's been, it's been a long time.
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We've been together for around like it's gonna be 14 years now
00:32
next December, yeah,
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we started the band right before we graduated high school.
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So Isa wanted to start a band and he called Villa and
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then he called me and our previous drummer called Alejandro,
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who's no longer with us.
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He's a great architect working in Colombia and then after a couple
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of years Martin came in and he's my brother yeah and everything
00:53
started to. It's been super fun and and and we've had
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a a great while like touring Latin America like working around the
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Spanish speaking world it's been it's been amazing and we've had a
01:05
lot of fun. Well,
01:07
rock has evolved obviously throughout the years and so has your sound
01:11
What has inspired your recent music and work?
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Wow. That's, I mean I feel like we're currently trying
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to answer that question ourselves,
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but there's a huge.
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inspiration that we're currently finding in in like 80s and
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90s like Spanish rock,
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soda steros de ilencio bands likes Verdes,
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I feel like those kind of people like really yeah influence
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our music right now.
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If there was a time period you guys could go back to
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what would it be right now in general yeah yeah yeah
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right now it's gonna be the 80s,
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the 80s, the 0 80s,
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90s, yes. Coherent time.
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You guys wouldn't go in the future.
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Actually, I'll be a little bit scared of going in the
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future. I'm just gonna wait to see what happens.
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mosque. Santa. Going back to your music and your vibe
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as a band, I,
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I know you guys carry a very different energy from from some
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of the music that we're kind of used to.
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When it comes to,
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you know, reggaeton and in Latino culture we are used to
03:49
well, machismo is very normalized.
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How do you capture that that difference when it comes to the
03:55
energy of the music you guys produce and make?
03:57
Honestly, I feel like we stand for a total different approach
04:01
in music. I feel like our songs are love songs that
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all they hope for is to bring people together and I feel
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like we build our entire career like.
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With that in mind,
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I don't know if you guys,
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yeah, 100%. I also think that the,
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the fact that we're a band and we've been friends for such
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a long time, like what we're trying to portray is like
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friendship and how to have a good time,
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like we have a great time on stage,
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like that's the kind of thing we want people to do when
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they're listening to our music or they come to our shows,
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like. We, we really buy way more into that kind
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of topics, and I feel that the music reflects that a
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lot more. Yeah,
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just good energy all over.
04:35
That's the best and now I know you guys have a new
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song that just came out with Camilo Meto Cami.
04:44
How did this collaboration come to be?
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I feel like Camilo.
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One of those artists that really resonates with us,
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like, I think that there's also a pretty like funny story
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and it's that when these guys graduated high school,
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they entered to this like music academy and it happens that Camilo
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entered to the same academy so they actually knew each other like
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from years and years ago.
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So we've been like connected throughout time like in different ways we
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find each other in different situations.
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So yeah, we're happy and we think that this collaboration in
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particular like embraces a lot like the aesthetic and like the intention
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of what our new album is gonna be like this 80s 90s
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vibe, so we're really excited to see what people think about
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the song. When yeah aquista.
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The most exciting way of saying that's cool that's cool.
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But the most exciting way is like saying like awesome without saying
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no yeah now I,
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I heard you during the interview.
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You said new album,
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new album. Tell me about it.
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Juannos enque. I,
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I'm very ready for this.
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I'm excited. bueno Josecio mucho and we pulled together some of
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your past looks and pictures together.
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We wanted to see some reaction,
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some opinion, some commentary.
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Do you guys mind?
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Can we take a look back?
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You, you said you wanted to go to the 70s so
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we can go 10 years back.
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Oh wow. Wow,
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wow, OK, that,
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that's not, I mean,
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that's obviously that's not the worst it's not as bad as it
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could have that ring.
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Let's just let's just say we were on our way to finding
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our own style. We were on our way to a baptism
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I primo. OK I,
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I don't regret this one as much.
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I don't really, I don't really mind the like the look
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I just think like the edit of the picture is like
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awful. It's weird.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I just feel like I don't see ourselves in that picture that
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you know that's something that are torturing us.
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I got. Talk to me about your face.
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You're so curious you're looking at the horizon you are expecting the
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very truth. Next,
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please. OK, that's not bad.
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I hate you the picture.
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The picture is a little weird.
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The looks at us,
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man. I'd say that's a 4 out of 10.
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You're in the game now.
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You're being too kind on us.
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I don't feel that bad with this picture actually.
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Tell us it's the shift.
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Talk about a glue up,
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man. I could definitely wear that right now right now very
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comfortable, yeah. That's it.
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Yes, I think that's all we do I survive.
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Tell me when we can,
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well, I know this song is out.
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Where can we listen to the new song with Camilo?
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Well, everywhere, no,
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I mean at this point it should be out in every single
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DSP. Streaming platform or and please watch the video.
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We did a beautiful video in Mexico City that it,
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it came out to be really cool,
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a very 80s and 90s inspired,
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performance. So yeah,
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check that out and let us know what you think.
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Amazing. Well, we appreciate you guys so much for stopping
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by. Give it up.
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that. I said yes.