1. Name

2. History
     Formation (2000–2002)    First period (2003–2010)    Second period (2013 – present)  

3. Discography

4. Members
     Current    Former  

5. References

Name

The name of the band, MediaBanda, means literally "half band" in spanish language, however in Chilean Spanish, the term media is used as big, huge, as well as awesome and impressive. Therefore the meaning of MediaBanda might be "Awesome Band".{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

History

Formation (2000–2002)

A first group with the name of Mediabanda and formed by Cristián Crisosto, Jaime Vivanco, Pato Zúñiga, Willy Valenzuela, Raúl González, Sergio Pinto, and Miguel Schain, began to operate at the beginning of the 1980s as a group that explored the fusion of rock, funk, jazz, and free improvisation, also inspired in Rock in Opposition movement. From this formation there was only one unpublished demo. However, when Crisosto and Vivanco joined the rest of the final members, decided to make new music and change the name to Fulano, starting a great career from 1984 to 2015, leaving an indelible mark in the history of Chilean music. It is later to the album Trabajos Inútiles (1997) by Fulano that Cristián Crisosto begins an ambitious personal composition project, which in the year 2000 is concretized by putting together a new band, with his wife Arlette Jequier (voice), his daughter Regina Crisosto (voice), and seven other young musicians; Santiago Astaburuaga, (bass), Christian Hirth (drums), Daniel Linker (piano), Diego Aguirre (guitar), Sebastián Dintrans (guitar), Patricio Bracamonte (trombone), Marcelo Maira (flute and sax), taking up the previous name of MediaBanda. This is how the current Mediabanda was born.^[3]

First period (2003–2010)

After a long period of rehearsals and workshop work to put together the complex compositions of Crisosto, Mediabanda launched in June 2004 its first album entitled Entre la inseguridad y el ego (Between Insecurity and Ego), financed thanks to the support of Fondart with a concert in the theater of the Alameda Cultural Center. The album stands out for its great musical eclecticism, compositional complexity and richness of sound, in songs that walk with ease through rock, funk, salsa, afro-Latin rhythms, pop melodies, jazz arrangements, avant-garde music and even at times, classical music. At the end of 2004, the faculty of the Escuela Moderna de Música awarded MediaBanda the prize for best band of the year, and Wikén magazine of the newspaper El Mercurio qualifies the group as the best new Chilean artist. As a result of the reception of the critics and the public, they are invited to participate in the 4th International Providence Jazz Festival, sharing the stage with international artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Yellowjackets and others. Later they would also act in Matucana 100 next to Akineton Retard, between other presentations of the period. In April 2005 he won his second Fondart project, which included a national tour that took place during the months of October and November.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

In April 2006, they won for the third time a Fondart project to finance their second record production Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and nerve endings) which was recorded in January 2007 and launched in June of the same year in two concerts at the Cine Arte Alameda. The album was a double CD where their style of fusion rock, jazz, and contemporary music develops, consolidating the group as one of the most important of the Latin American progressive fusion style. This time the composition was also open to Hirth and Dintrans, in addition to notable experimental improvisations from Jequier, Hirth and Astaburuaga. A week later, they embark on a trip to Europe for a month and a half, performing in various halls, auditoriums and festivals such as the Nuits du Sud Festival in Vence France, and others in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria and Italy. Upon returning to Chile, they would perform at the Teatro Oriente next to Congreso and Akineton Retard. Later also with the experimental percussion group Code, in the same theater.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

In 2010 he released the new album, Siendo Perro (Being dog), with a new line-up, which highlights the harmonic use of guitars as a replacement for the piano, and the incorporation of funk, and heavy rock to the already avant-garde jazz-rock fusion. Siendo Perro was released without the voice of Arlette Jequier, what glimpsed the beginning of the breaks within the band and that led to a silence of two years.^[4]

Second period (2013 – present)

In mid-2013, a new line up for the second age of MediaBanda was gathered, including 6 new members. In 2014 they participate in the celebration of the 30 years of the Fulano group, held at the Nescafé Theater of Arts together with Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, Pedro Foncea (from De Kiruza), and Angelo Pierattini (from Weichafe). During this period the group made a series of performances re-opening a large part of the repertoire, which also had the collaboration of Consuelo Schuster and Celeste Shaw in voices and that coincided with an important rotation of musicians in the base formation.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

During 2016 they are composing and recording their highly anticipated new album, Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air), which premieres in January 2017 in a crowded Sala SCD in Plaza Egaña. The following week they are presented with great success at the Woodstaco Festival 2017 in the Maule Region, before thousands of people, and then continue the presentations of the album release in the Valparaíso Region.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}^[5] It was recorded in CHT Estudios as a musical workshop experiment instead of the use of the scores that had been the fundamental support in the early days. During the months of July and August they make a tour to Mexico that includes presentations in the Jalisco Jazz Festival in Guadalajara, the FestivAlterNativo in Querétaro, in addition to the cultural circuit of Mexico City. Back in Chile, they perform a series of presentations with other avant-garde bands such as Crisis (by Nicolás Vera and Cristián Gallardo), Sube, Zet, Cola de Zorro, and Ojo de Pez among others. In January 2018, they participate again in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Festival Woodstaco in Teno.^[6][7][8]

Discography

• 2004 – Entre la Inseguridad y el Ego (Between Insecurity and Ego)
• 2007 – Dinero y Terminación Nerviosa (Money and Nervous Termination)
• 2010 – Siendo Perro (Being Dog)
• 2017 – Bombas en el Aire (Bombs in the Air)^[9]{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2018|sure=yes}}

Members

Current

• Cristián Crisosto, composition, flute, saxs (2000- )
• Christian Hirth, drums (2000 - )

• Rodrigo Aguirre, saxs and flute (2009 - )
• Rafael Chaparro, saxs (2013 - )
• Tomás Ravassa, piano and keyboards (2013 - )
• Aurelio Silva, guitar (2013 - )
• Valentina Mardones, voice (2014 - )
• Felipe Martínez, bass (2015 - )

Former

• Patricio Bracamonte, trombón (2000–2005)
• Daniel Linker, piano and keyboards (2000–2006)
• Santiago Astaburuaga, bass (2000–2008)
• Arlette Jequier, voice and clarinet (2000–2009)
• Marcelo Maira, flute and saxs (2000–2009)
• Diego Aguirre, guitar (2000–2010)
• Regina Crisosto, voice and marimbas (2000–2010)
• Sebastián Dintrans, guitar (2000–2010)
• Cristóbal Dahm, clarinet, saxs (2005 - 2017)
• Jaime Ramos, piano keyboards (2006–2009)
• Javier Barahona, bass (2008–2010, 2014)
• Francisco Loyola, piano (2009)
• Nicolás Voigth, bass (2013)
• Carolina Riveros, voice (2013)
• Benjamín Lechuga, guitar (2013–2014)
• Matías Baeza, guitar (2015–2016)

References

• 1259 (year)
• 125 Broad Street
• 125 CE
• 12.5 kV AC railway electrification
• 1.25 meter
• 125mm smoothbore rounds
• 125 Rooms of Comfort
• 125th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
• 125th (Brantford) Battalion
• 125th (Cameronians) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
• 125th Division (2nd Formation)(People's Republic of China)
• 125th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
• 125th Division (People's Republic of China)
• 125th Field Artillery Regiment
• 125th Guards Bombardment Aviation Regiment
• 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment
• 125th Guards Rifle Division
• 125th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
• 125th Military Airlift Squadron
• 125th Motor Rifle Division
• 125th Pennsylvania Infantry
• 125th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)
• 125th Street (NYCRR station)
• 125th Street station