Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

Gomez-Delgado, lower middle.

​Zemog El Gallo Bueno is an audacious, spiked-wristband to the jaw of contemporary world music--hard-rocking, hard-arting, undeniably New York. Making what Peruvian-born, Puerto Rican-born, Bronx-residing composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado calls "21st Century Latin music," Zemog toys with whatever sounds drift in and out of his apartment windows. Gomez-Delgado points to Puerto Rican bomba, Van Halen and Sun Ra; there are also afro-Peruvian grooves, caffeinated salsa, Rain Dogs-era Tom Waits, Carl Stalling cartoon freak-outs, and Zorn slice-and-dice. You know how Dirty Projectors kind sound natural when they smush non-Euro grooves into wild avant-rock? Yeah, well this is like the awesome inverse of that. Gomez-Delgado has kindly provided us a rough mix of "Bomba Sin Plana," a track slated for their upcoming third album on Mr. Bongo records. Polyrhythmic drums bubble and pop, saxes drone menacingly, a Mancini groove bursts from nowhere, lively grooves devolve into free-jazz sax torture, and then re-emerge triumphantly. It's a seamless smash-up of about a billion awesome things.

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