"rock-edged blues" Leila Cobo, Billboard, USA!

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Bogota's fatsO are the creation of Daniel Restrepo, who writes, arranges, plays contrabass, and sings with a raspy voice that evokes the blues, jazz and American folk. Those ones of thick voices that are performed in a shadowy nightclub by an elegant band.

FatsO comes out from an outstanding network of eclectic musicians from Bogota, involved in rock, electronic, jazz, traditional and avant-garde projects. Fatso’s music is a meld of blues, jazz and soul influenced by rock sounds. Restrepo himself used to be member of a rock band called “Seis Peatones”. Most of Restrepo’s compositions are in English language due to his childhood and part of his teenage spent in the US. He says “What matters is to generate music of high quality and to have a fierce ability to transmit it and connect with the audience”.

Restrepo’s path is the result of a honest and authentic research. He ordered the contrabass in La Habana, Cuba. Once, this one arrived to Bogota, mostly destroyed; he renovated it. Then, shut himself up in a room and started to compose and arrange his self titled debut album. He says “we were the fatso and me”. ‘Fatso’ is the way he calls his contrabass. This process took six months until he went into the studio to record it in a block session. It was in 2013 that he officially debuted as a sextet at Jazz in The Park Festival in Bogota. The success was so evident that FatsO was invited to be part of all "in The Park Festivals" in Bogota, including Rock in The Park.

Restrepo's main musical influences growing up were Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Joe Cocker. He says: “with the song ‘I’ll be Fine’ I pay a homage to those big authors without any pretension”.

This is a great act to be seen live and to be listened to!!!

Line up • Alex Barragan (Tenor Saxophone) • Cesar Morales (Drum) • Daniel Linero (Alto Saxophone & Clarinet) • Daniel Restrepo "fatsO" (Double Bass & Vocals) • Elkin Hernandez (Alto Saxophone & Clarinet) • Julio Panadero (Clarinet) • Santiago Jimenez (Guitar)