Belong nowhere, settle anywhere!
Raised in a mixed-race household that wasn't typical in Bogota at the time, composer/guitarist Luis Valoyes grew up listening to a mixture of traditional Colombian folklore, commercial tropical music and 80s/90s pop and rock. Then, as a teenager, he discovered metal, jazz, blues and classical music, and instead of choosing one, he blended them all in his head and through his guitar, for years and years, even after moving to Canada in 2016.
Based in Montreal since 2021, after a few years creating music and sound effects for slots-machines, and having released six meditative music albums with his project Sérénité, as well as other four home-made orchestral albums for Dark Chamber Orchestra, Valoyes felt that it was time to express that multicultural background he comes from, in a more personal project.
Traditional sounds from the Andean and Pacific regions of his native Colombia merge with the fierce distortion and aggression of metal, to create an unique blend of instrumental music that Valoyes presents under his surname, as an affirmation of identity, because that unlikely blend of influences that defines what he does, also defines who he is.
