Julián Bonequi

[1] He plays the drums, and experiments with electronics and voice to create a rhythmic environment much richer in atmospheres and harmonic flow situations.

He played in the FOCO Orchestra (Orquesta FOCO – Madrid) (2006–2011), and create with Dave Tucker[2][3] and Ricardo Tejero the project Machinations of Joy Julian Bonequi established himself in Barcelona within the Spanish improvisation free jazz music scene since 2004, but has since also performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas since he lived in Mexico.

Both of them, are formers musician of many other important Mexican bands, as Frolic Froth, Smoking The Century Away, Euphoric Darkness, Loch Ness and Semefo.

And the next year, in March 2000 in a concert in the Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in the historic centre of Mexico City, they celebrated the 25th anniversary and present the CD release named Fortuna Virilis, in addition to a retrospective with the work done since 1974.

This concert is included in the three-disc box Fiat Lux, and it was the last time Decibel, this legendary Mexican band of Rock in Opposition play together without Javier Baviera, or Jaime Castaneda, but with Julian Bonequi on drums and Juan Carlos Ruiz on bassoon, former musician of Nazca, and leader of Culto Sin Nombre The same year, in 2000, the Israeli Label, MIO Records produced a 3-disc box called Fiat Lux.

In the edition of the Festival Hurta Cordel, celebrated the last week of January 2009, FOCO was conducted by New York experimental jazz composer& musician, William Parker, and they present together in the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona.

He was involved in the Ohrengala[16] at Bei Roy, collaborating until October 2012, in RAM,[17] Radical Animation and Musik at K77 in collaboration with Salon Bruit,[18] and in the female soloist serie and documentary episodes in Berlin around improvised, noise and electroacoustic music and contemporary composers, started in February 2013 named Quota;unquota[19] co-curated by Philip Morris aka Sciolist.

In February 2011 Bonequi worked and lived in Krems as Resident Artist at Air-Krems:[25] "... Each day we recorded 15 to 30 minutes of short improvisations, then we edited it and mixed, without overdubs.

Audition Records announces "The Mexican Tour, 8 dates, 5 cities: Mexico City, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Guadalajara"[26] – Splits gigs with the Norwegian rock noise trio MoE,[27] organized by Audition Records, and Bonequi coordinating the Tour Management, Logistics and Documentation and performing as soloist as previous act.

Machinations of Joy with Dave Tucker