Musaraña

Musaraña Musaraña, the new music project of Sonera, María Laboy and producer Andres Rigau, breaks gender, musical, and mind barriers. A Despojo.

They set out to create a new Latinx music genre--Despojo--that alters today’s perceptions of Latin music and the role of female performers in today’s music scene. For decades, there has been a dearth within the Latin Music industry of contemporary female artists doing danceable percussive upbeat music in Spanish representative of today’s generation. While Latin female music artists are well repres

ented in other genres like trap, hip hop and pop, since the times of Celia Cruz, Iris Chacón and La Lupe, the United States has not seen a modern day “sonera”. Maria Laboy sets out to correct this blindspot with a new danceable Latinx music genre that brings to life a soneo/rumba-like, futuristic sound for today’s Millennial generation with an empowered female, gender-neutral, perspective. To introduce Despojo to the world, Laboy and Rigau will launch Musaraña (jargon for random thoughts or a wandering mind) an album that explores and captures Latinx Millennials’ concerns with traditional patriarchy, inequities and overall sense of powerlessness and puts a surreal spin on them. With songs like Munchie Sexual, Diamante, Invento and Despojo, Musaraña offers a kind of daily affirmation meant to shift the mind, empower and move audiences. Co-produced by Maria Laboy & Puerto Rican composer, Andres Rigau, Musaraña layers genres like salsa, perico ripiao, reggaeton, bomba, plena, merengue, with psychedelic/electronic and futuristic arrangements. Bolstering this sound is a Latinx surrealistic visual image and a lyrical focus on current topics that come together to produce a unique experience to awaken the unconscious mind, what Laboy calls the “tostones con alas” (flying fried plantains) effect. Their album, set to be released in 2020, interrupts our everyday mental chatter, offering a healing balm, some sort of modern chant, in the form of upbeat music and dancing, a way to let go.

Que honor ser mencionada en este hermosísimo artículo por Suset Laboy Pérez!!! Toñita (Caribbean Social Club - Toñitas) ...
01/21/2025

Que honor ser mencionada en este hermosísimo artículo por Suset Laboy Pérez!!! Toñita (Caribbean Social Club - Toñitas) me ha visto crecer, ha aportado a mi jornada y sobre todo llenado grandemente mi sentido de comunidad boricua acá en la diáspora en .
Toñita is an inspiration not only to but to many of us artists, boricuas, Latines and the community at large. Yo quiero ser como tú cuando sea más grande. Te honro, te admiro y estoy inspirada por el ser humano que eres.
Gracias a Núria Net y Suset por compartir con el mundo a mayor profundidad quién es la matriarca de PR/Brooklyn pal mundo. Mucho que aprender de ella. Seguimos! LAS AMO y por ahí viene más !!!
Via Platea PR — LINK— https://www.plateapr.com/la-musa-de-nueva-yol-la-matriarca-boricua-que-conquisto-a-bad-bunny/

IN 2 DAYS NYC!!! DOORS OPEN @7:30PM. OCT.10 C'mon Everybody.Two bewitching spectacles Tony & The Kiki and Musaraña join ...
10/08/2021

IN 2 DAYS NYC!!! DOORS OPEN @7:30PM. OCT.10 C'mon Everybody.
Two bewitching spectacles Tony & The Kiki and Musaraña join forces to deliver more than a performance show. It will be more of a spiritual awakening experience for the audience. Challenging rigid notions of what constitutes Latine music, the show intends to liberate audiences from the bad vibes permeating society today and replace them with a magical sprinkle of futuristic camp.
The show will put the way audiences experience live entertainment on steroids by offering vibrant and explosive music that provides joy, ascension, and electricity for the collective. In doing this, both bands assert their place amongst ‘brujes’ using music as a medium to declare things into existence, an ancestral practice that has been reignited and embraced within new generations.
Get your tickets while they last! -- https://bit.ly/2YsEzzV
1st 📸 by , 1st h&m by , art by

Over 10,000 VIEWS in the 1st week!!! Of our ‘Munchie Sexual’ video! WOW. Sin palabras. Beyond ecstatic that you have lik...
08/19/2021

Over 10,000 VIEWS in the 1st week!!! Of our ‘Munchie Sexual’ video! WOW. Sin palabras. Beyond ecstatic that you have liked it and shared it forward!! 🙏🏽😭🔮💦💖🔥.
LINK--- https://youtu.be/nR4Yo4nVRbw
Plus some badass behind the scenes 📸 captures by
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Creative Director: Maria Laboy
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MEGA BADASS REVIEW among so many fierce artists!!!-- "More is more is more is more, and the video for Musaraña’s “Munchi...
08/05/2021

MEGA BADASS REVIEW among so many fierce artists!!!-- "More is more is more is more, and the video for Musaraña’s “Munchie Sexual” has a lot: a bathtub full of tostones, some of which fly, rooftop choreo with dancers in outfits you’d imagine might be worn if fiestas patronales were held in outer space, and the Puerto Rican singer’s hair wrapped in rolos made of plantains. Both in sound and visuals, nature and synthetics are juxtaposed to striking effect and over-the-top camp and Latinx tradition clang—the colorful, flashy result is uniquely surreal." via Remezcla & the amazing "

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How-it-went-down! Still recovering from our debut show at Caribbean Social Club - Toñitas!! Fue FUEGO gracias a ustedes!...
08/04/2021

How-it-went-down! Still recovering from our debut show at Caribbean Social Club - Toñitas!! Fue FUEGO gracias a ustedes! Our hearts are full and we trust yours are too. ❤️‍🔥💦🔮🪘🪐🥥🩸🔥.
Plus yes— we are officially making a Despojo Cleanse Challenge!!! 😝. Are you in?
Also huge apologies as we couldn’t do our live via facebook!!! We will make it up to you!
Amazing 📸 captures by , H&M by Ismael Quevedo

ALBUM JUST DROPPED!!!  --
07/30/2021

ALBUM JUST DROPPED!!! --

Musaraña is a purposefully irrational juxtaposition of lyrics, sounds and images designed to awaken, empower and free the unconscious mind.

ALBUM IS OUT!!! Go! Plus Friday mood full. Get your ‘plátanos rolos’ on for the party!! --- LINK --- https://ffm.to/musa...
07/30/2021

ALBUM IS OUT!!! Go! Plus Friday mood full. Get your ‘plátanos rolos’ on for the party!! --- LINK --- https://ffm.to/musarania
Musaraña is a purposefully irrational juxtaposition of lyrics, sounds and images designed to awaken, empower and free the unconscious mind.

📸 by KrYstal ConYé, Hair by Ismael Quevedo

Yasss!!! Honored to have BELatina News premiere our video! ❤️‍🔥🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🙏🏽❤️‍🔥 -- "Between flying tostones and images and m...
07/28/2021

Yasss!!! Honored to have BELatina News premiere our video! ❤️‍🔥🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🙏🏽❤️‍🔥 --
"Between flying tostones and images and music that are both campy and incredibly profound, opens wide the doors to their universe with the release of their new music video, album, and debut show in New York... Directed by Pablo Barrera of Xizmo Media, colorized by Charles Klein, and animated by Miguel Hernández, the entire video introduces the audience to the band’s mythical playground, the lens through which much of the musical offerings are imagined. Musaraña’s self-titled album is an intentionally irrational juxtaposition of lyrics, sounds, and images designed to awaken, empower and liberate the unconscious mind." via
Also featured: Andrés Rigau Music

The anticipated album from the María Laboy-Andrés Rigau duo promises to revolutionize our universe with a space that defies tropes about hypersexual Latinos and speaks to a genderless audience from a female perspective.

ITS OUT!!! And it's "Every 'Toston' Lover’s Wet Dream" GO!The Munchie Sexual video turns old concepts around Latinx sexu...
07/28/2021

ITS OUT!!! And it's "Every 'Toston' Lover’s Wet Dream" GO!

The Munchie Sexual video turns old concepts around Latinx sexuality on their head, by mixing exaggerated imagery with campy undertones. It is a surreal Latinx visual trip of getting inside a bathtub full of greasy ‘tostones’ (fried plantains) that fly, dancing under pink skies with a futuristic tribe, and engaging in a full ‘despojo’ (energy release) dominatrix-style encounter.
Director & Editor: Pablo Barrera
Director of Photography: Ben Adler
1st Assistant Camera: Carlos Espinel
Creative Director & Styling: Maria Laboy
Production: Krystal Pagan & Natalie Romero
Hair & Makeup: Ismael Quevedo
Director of Movement & Choreography: Fernando Contreras
Dancers: Cedric Leiba, Miriam Gallardo, Ariel Blackwood, Audrey Hailes, Fernando Contreras
Colorist: Charles Kline
Visual Effects: Miguel Hernandez
Graphic Design: Anomalo Estudio
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Musaraña (jargon for random thoughts or a wandering mind) — has created a space where Latinx identity is centered and reclaimed for a new generation. This wo...

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07/27/2021

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Art by Anómalo Estudio, 📸 by KrYstal ConYé, H&M by Ismael Quevedo

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Musaraña, the New Music Project of Maria Laboy and Andres Rigau, Breaks Gender, Musical, and Mind Barriers

In what will be the first music venture of Sonera, María Laboy and multi-instrumentalist Andres Rigau, they set out to create a new Latinx music genre--Despojo--that alters today’s perceptions of Latin music and the role of female performers in today’s music scene.

To introduce Despojo to the world, Laboy and Rigau will launch Musaraña (jargon for random thoughts or a wandering mind) an album that explores and captures Latinx Millennials’ concerns with traditional patriarchy, inequities and overall sense of powerlessness and puts a surreal spin on them. With songs like Munchie Sexual, Diamante, Invento and Despojo, Musaraña offers a kind of daily affirmation meant to shift the mind, empower and move audiences.

Co-produced by Maria Laboy & Puerto Rican composer, Andres Rigau, Musaraña layers genres like salsa, perico ripiao, reggaeton, bomba, plena, merengue, with psychedelic/electronic and futuristic arrangements.

Bolstering this sound is a Latinx surrealistic visual image and a lyrical focus on current topics that come together to produce a unique experience to awaken the unconscious mind, what Laboy calls the “tostones con alas” (flying fried plantains) effect.