SECRET PLANET 2025

This year’s lineup will feature artists from many backgrounds with a strong focus on musical hybrids borne out of cultural cohabitation and individual exploration.

Artists all play a 30 min set

7pm: LUCIFERIN (Ambient harp, accordion, synth)

8pm: LOS CREMA PARAISO (Electric joropos)

8:45: MIRAMAR (Original Bolero Beat)

9:30: YEISON LANDERO (Colombian accordionist)

10:15: CHICHA LIBRE (Psychedelic cumbia)

11pm: LOLLISE (Afro futurist duo)

11:45: YALLAH YALLAH (80's Middle Eastern pop)

** DJs LEON CITY SOUNDS all night **

7pm,

LUCIFERIN

Luciferin is Ellena Phillips (harp, voice) and Erica Mancini (synths, organ, vibraphone, tape samples, voice), along with visual artist / projectionist, B.A. Miale. The three women create a psychedelic underwater planetarium sanctuary that expresses their love for outer space and the magical creatures of the deep sea. They draw musical inspiration from Dorothy Ashby, Stockhausen, and Pauline Oliveros.

8pm

LOS CREMA PARAISO

Los Crema Paraiso, named after a beloved Caracas ice cream parlor, is a Venezuelan power trio made up of Neil Ochoa (Si Se, Chicha Libre), José Luis Pardo AKA Cheo (Los Amigos Invisibles), and Bam Rodriguez (Chucho Valdés, Arturo O'Farrill).

The trio takes Venezuelan traditional music as its foundation, but infuses it with rock, funk, latin grooves, jazz and exotica.

The group has toured the US, including the Ruido Festival in Chicago, River to River festival in New York, LAMC and the Echale festival in San Antonio. They have also performed in Venezuela and Colombia and toured Australia in 2014.

8:45

MIRAMAR

Miramar plays bolero-beat, sung in duo form by Rei Alvarez and Laura Ann Singh and arranged by pianist and bandleader Marlysse Argandoña. In the Latin world, boleros are the ultimate expression of love and suffering and hold cross-generational and cross-national appeal. Miramar first gained some notoriety with their debut album Dedication to Sylvia Rexach (Barbès Records), a tribute to the great Puerto Rican bolero composer.

Their follow-up album, Entre Las Flores, an album of original material will be released by Ansonia Records in February 2025. The music draws from boleros and Latin soul, with the added extravagance of lush orchestral arrangements.

You can watch a video of the single off that album, Un Astro

9:30

YEISON LANDERO

Yeison Landero was born in San Jacinto (Bolívar) in the heart of Los Montes de María located in the Caribbean region of Colombia. His grandfather, Andrés Landero, dubbed the “King of cumbia” was one of Colombia’s most revered accordionists. Today, having inherited this legacy from his grandfather, Yeison, has become the “Heir to cumbia”. He is not only one of Colombia’s best accordion players, but is also working to create his own traditional style.

10:15

CHICHA LIBRE

After an 8 years hiatus, psychedelic cumbia group Chicha Libre is back with a new EP - Tequila y Aguardiente, a collaboration with Mexico’s Son Rompe Pera and Colombia’s La Sonora Mazuren - and just played its first live show for Dia de Los Muertos this past November, with Son Rompe Pera and legendary chicha band Los Mirlos - a multi-generational cumbia fest that took place at CDMX’s famed Salon Los Angeles.

Chicha Libre started out in 2007 as a tribute to Peruvian pioneers but quickly evolved into an original project which MTV has cited as "one of the world's preeminent Tropical Psychedelic band". Indeed, while they remain true to their Chicha roots, Chicha Libre's music draws from its members' alternative backgrounds. The band has proven especially popular in South America and Mexico but has also toured extensively in Europe and North America.

LOLLISE

Motswana musician (Underground System, FELA! Band) and fashion designer Lollise charts new afro-futurist directions by creating hybrid songs that represent a patchwork of her childhood in Africa and her new home in NYC: Kalanga folk, Congolese soukous, electronic bubblegum, Zimbabwean sunguru blend into afrobeat, art-pop, and new wave, new world expressions. She is kinetic on stage, performing in a near-telepathic duo arrangement with drummer/DJ/journalist Morgan Greenstreet. “I hit the water” is her latest full-length release, released in the fall of 2024 on Switch Hit Records — a gorgeous, intimate tapestry of afro-diasporic sounds. Lollise was last spotted at Celebrate Brooklyn, on a bill with Seun Kuti.

11:45

YALLAH YALLAH

Guitarists Amit Peled and Segev Harosh’s a new project pays homage to 1980's drum machine-driven middle-eastern pop, with the two guitarists recreating the dual harmonies parts of those original recordings on guitar, bouzouki and electric oud.

They add period-appropriate keyboard parts and live percussion - and the almighty Alesis SR-16 drum machine, which was the glue that held the original 80's recordings together.
Yallah Yallah’s shows are wild and joyful dance parties.