Bands of Enchantment
La Vida Bohème
Season 5 Episode 2 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Venezuelan powerhouses La Vida Bohème electrify with their fusion of post-punk & Latin rhythms.
In this episode, Venezuelan alt-rock powerhouses La Vida Bohème electrify the Bands of Enchantment stage & the local roller rink with their signature fusion of post-punk, electronic, & Latin rhythms. Two-time Latin Grammy winners & globally celebrated for their bold sound & social edge, these Caracas-born icons deliver a high-voltage performance that channels protest, passion, & pure sonic fire.
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Bands of Enchantment
La Vida Bohème
Season 5 Episode 2 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
In this episode, Venezuelan alt-rock powerhouses La Vida Bohème electrify the Bands of Enchantment stage & the local roller rink with their signature fusion of post-punk, electronic, & Latin rhythms. Two-time Latin Grammy winners & globally celebrated for their bold sound & social edge, these Caracas-born icons deliver a high-voltage performance that channels protest, passion, & pure sonic fire.
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Filmed live at the KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico (upbeat rock music) Tonights band, from Caracas, Venezuela, La Vida Bohème.
Sometimes, sometimes some things are worth the wait.
Please, let s get it going, let s get it going!
Let s get it going!
For La Vida Bohème!
(audience applauses and cheers) (audience applauses and cheers) (slow ominus guitar music plays) (overlayed, Spoken in Spanish) You never appreciate what you have until you lose it.
For example Without electricity It would be impossible to preserve food, and its current commercializatio would not even be possible.
This momentum would be achieved thanks to the research.
(Singing, in Spanish) ♪ Nicaragua in '82 ♪ ♪ A wounded homeland and static on the television ♪ ♪ I was studying law.
♪ ♪ My dear, everything suits me.
♪ ♪ In my social bubble ♪ ♪ I was a God.
♪ ♪ Now I'm wandering aimlessly.
♪ ♪ Sweetheart, I kept the rosary you gave me ♪ ♪ when you said goodbye ♪ ♪ Now I'm wandering aimlessly, my dear.
♪ ♪ Singing songs of ♪ ♪ Of false revolution.
♪ (rock guitar music) ♪ Without war there is no peace, a man once told me ♪ ♪ without blood shed there is no change, I screamed ♪ ♪ with passion ♪ ♪ I thought it would be different ♪ ♪ those that were killed weren t people ♪ ♪ My dear, my dear what happened to us?
♪ ♪ I didn t want this, my country died.
♪ ♪ I killed it, I killed it ♪ ♪ Ironically it killed me.
♪ ♪ Sheathe your sword and put away your rifle ♪ ♪ I wanted anything but to make you suffer ♪ ♪ Your tomb, my dear, will forever remain ♪ ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no, no, no no, no ♪ ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ ♪ Your tomb will forever be singing everyday.
♪ (Spoken, in Spanish) One, two, three, go!
(upbeat rocking guitar music) (psychadelic music, guitar starts to slow) (psychadelic rock music) (psychadelic music continues, guitar picks up) (upbeat rock music) (audience cheers and applauses) (Spoken, In Spanish) Thank you very much, (In English) Thank you very much!
(lists 'Thank you s in other languages) (upbeat rock music plays) (Singing, in Spanish) ♪ This is our party ♪ ♪ padlock and crest, our party.
♪ (Spoken, in English) We got some skaters, I got some like, cool dress-up critters- It s gonna be fun!
We re gonna do your acoustic set out here Oh, Peluso, are you kidding me?
(Audio engineer off screen) Yeah, it s Peluso 87 Dude, I ve been recording off of Peluso 87- (group laughs) How did you guys meet?
What was the spark?
I mean, I m not the OG-OG I mean, it s kind of hard to feel like, that you re not the OG because, like, we were sixteen.
You know what I mean?
- Sixteen?
-But we were in school.
We were high school students, you know?
(pensive guitar music) But, we were just trying to do cool stuff - This was pre Internet!
Back in the day- -Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly - You had to go to the record store!
Yeah, you had to go to the record store.
You had to look for what you wanted.
(Singing in Spanish) ♪ My legs are already tired ♪ (Spoken, in English) For me, being in Caracas, again, pre-internet, all this stuff sounded like secrets.
People like, - Yeah!
- Someone would tell like, Hey!
There s this great record!
These people called the stooges - or whatever - Oh, no, I love that guy!
- Oh, yeah!
Yeah!
We were just young kids wanting to have a better city and a better country and, you know, it was really difficult to do something about it and to say something.
We just opened that window of possibility.
It grew really, like, fast.
The important thing about the band, of La Vida Bohème in Venezuela specifically, The community has always come first in many ways.
The band is not really the songs, it s not really us, it s when people join in, that is the band, you know?
- Yeah, that shared experience - Exactly, yes!
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
(Singing, in Spanish) ♪ Oh, still, ♪ ♪ Oh, still, ♪ ♪ Oh, still, ♪ (Spoken, in English) Someone wiser than me told me once that art, it s a house that we all live on.
I think it s true.
(upbeat guitar music) (Singing, in Spanish) ♪ Distant like a grinder ♪ ♪ Silent horror like a train ♪ ♪ The phone rings.
♪ ♪ The phone rings.
♪ ♪ The phone rings, strangling me without a cord.
♪ ♪ The day unfolded without pause.
♪ ♪ Knees to the shredder ♪ ♪ My phone was suffocating me.
♪ ♪ My phone was suffocating me.
♪ ♪ I was drowning in my phone when suddenly it happened.
♪ ♪ Now I don't want to live like this anymore.
♪ ♪ Nor do I expect things to get better.
♪ ♪ Realizing that you were always there ♪ ♪ Like a jacaranda tree in an alleyway.
♪ ♪ Yeah, I don't want to live like this anymore.
♪ ♪ Nor do I expect things to get better.
♪ ♪ Realizing that you were always there ♪ ♪ Like a jacaranda tree in an alleyway.
♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Lost like an airplane ♪ ♪ I feel old and I'm not ♪ ♪ The phone rings, The phone rings.
♪ ♪ The phone rings, strangling me without a cord.
♪ ♪ A ghostly illusion ♪ ♪ A chain around my heart.
♪ ♪ My phone was ringing.
♪ ♪ My phone was ringing my phone was ringing ♪ ♪ looking for me, but it didn't find me.
♪ ♪ A magazine quiz asks me: Are you happy?
♪ ♪ While they hide a massacre in El Salvador ♪ ♪ The day it ceases to exist, an absurdity will have died ♪ ♪ The day it ceases to exist, an absurdity will have died.
♪ ♪ A magazine quiz asks me: Are you happy?
♪ ♪ While they hide a massacre in El Salvador ♪ ♪ The day it ceases to exist, an absurdity will have died ♪ ♪ The day it ceases to exist, an absurdity will have died.
♪ ♪ My sea ♪ (audience cheers) ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ Nothing ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ ♪ My sea ♪ ♪ My sea, my nothing ♪ (audience applause and cheers) (drummer clicks drumsticks) (upbeat guitar music) (Singing, in Spanish) ♪ What am I doing here?
♪ ♪ Paying to live.
♪ ♪ Choosing without a choice.
♪ ♪ Lost where I was born.
♪ ♪ Escaping from myself.
♪ ♪ In Caripe or Paris ♪ ♪ A distant song.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Every morning I see the world through blinds, ♪ ♪ windshields, and screens, what must be out there?
♪ ♪ Beyond what can be seen, I climb trees.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ (audience clapping to drum beat) ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ (upbeat guitar music) ♪ What am I doing here?
♪ ♪ Paying to live ♪ ♪ Choosing without a choice ♪ ♪ Far from where I was born ♪ ♪ Escaping from myself.
♪ ♪ To distance myself from you ♪ ♪ A distant song ♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me and keep calling me.
♪ ♪ Keep calling me ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ ♪ Far ♪ (audience cheers and claps) (warbolly guitar music) (audience cheers and claps) (Spoken, in English) You know what s dangerous?
I was thinking about it, it s like, if you were able to zoom yourself from being little to here, you get a snapshot of how s your life s gonna be when you re an adult - you may think the wrong thing you know?
like Oh my God, my life is amazing!
(laughs) I run a skate rink!
(laughs) (acoustic guitar playing) I think the key for staying together for eighteen years is, in a way, letting the inner child live its own journey because, you know, there s a beautifulness about killing the innocence but it s only in moments like this where it comes back to you.
It s like when you re little and you re with friends the pressure of the world kind of like, vanishes.
It s a gift.
I believe we do need to connect our own, like, inner child.
Always.
We re artists.
We always do that extra side path.
Here was, like, the best way to do it It made me feel that we are all one.
- Yeah!
- We do need that.
We do need that.
(Singing, in Spanish) ♪ A name to be proud to display ♪ (Spoken, in English) Both of them, of the same kid, they are uncles, so, - Yeah.
My sister- - His sister married his brother - Amazing!
- Yeah, we re family!
- Aww!
- Yeah, baby!
- Yeah, man!
(laughs) My wife is from New York, New York.
For us, it s always been, like, a point of honor that I m Venezuelen and she s American because we know that the things that connected us were far beyond our nationalities.
The real stuff of life, you know the thing that really makes character.
(Singing, in Spanish) ♪ Oh, still, ♪ (Spoken, in English) There s this phrase by Marjane Satrapi that says The distance between you and me is closer than the distance between you and your government and me and my government.
So we have so much more in common once you bring it down to the basics.
- There ll be people tonight that might not understand all the lyrics, you know, but- - They ll feel it.
- They will feel it.
- Exactly.
We were told that we could play one more song if you want it.
Do you want us to play one more song?
(audience cheers and applauses) You never appreciate what you have until you lose it.
For example, without electricity, food preservation would be impossible, and its current commercialization would not even be possible.
This momentum would be achieved thanks to the research.
Clearly speaking, electricity means progress and development.
(static rough gutiar music) (audience cheers) (upbeat rocking guitar music) (Singing, in Spanish) ♪ This is our party, ♪ ♪ padlock and crest, our party.
♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ ♪ This is our waltz, Radio Capital, ♪ ♪ This is our waltz ♪ ♪ Radio Capital ♪ ♪ This is our party ♪ ♪ padlock and crests, our party ♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ ♪ Our party, padlock and crests, our party.
♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ (rocking guitar music) ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
Gabba, gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
Gabba, gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Ooh!
♪ ♪ This is our party ♪ ♪ padlock and crests, our party.
♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ ♪ This is our Radio Capital.
♪ ♪ This is our Radio Capital.
♪ ♪ This is our party, padlock and crests, our party.
♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ ♪ This is our party, padlock and crests, our party.
♪ ♪ Ours!
♪ (rocking guitar music) ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
Gabba, gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
Gabba, gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
Gabba, gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
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♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
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♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
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♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ (audience) ♪ Gabba, gabba, gabba hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ (audience) ♪ Gabba, gabba, gabba hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ (audience) ♪ Gabba, gabba, gabba hey!
♪ ♪ Gabba, gabba, hey!
♪ (audience cheers) (rocking guitar music) (rocking guitar music continues) Sshh!
(music starts to slow) (guitar music building) ♪ Ooh-ooh!
♪ (rock guitar music plays) Hey!
Hey!
Aah!!
(audience applauses and cheers) (rock guitar music plays) (audience applauses and cheers) Mucho gracias, thank you so much!
You ve been a wonderful crowd!
(audience applauses and cheers) These two beautiful handsome men are (laughs) you know, they have their romatic affairs, but they re not married.
They still- - Ooh!
haven t settled down, you know?
- Hey!
You hear that?
(group laughs) (Singing, in Spanish) ♪ In the shadows she dances ♪ ♪ there as you see her ♪ ♪ All night in the streets on her own she wants to move ♪ ♪ In the shadows she dances there as you see her ♪ ♪ All night in the streets on her own she wants to move ♪ (Singing, in English) ♪ Just sing those ♪ ♪ small town blues though it ain t that pretty ♪ ♪ I m just a country boy who made his way to the city.
♪ ♪ Might be a shock to you.
Hair was to my waist.
♪ ♪ Swedish metal in my truck tryin to make my case ♪


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