[Afropop] The Colombian alternative act Meridian Brother, is a one-man-band in the recording studio, and a five-piece ensemble on stage. The one man in question is Eblis Álvarez, a veteran of Bogota's underground music scene since 1998. The most recent in a string of conceptual Meridian Brothers releases, Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento, traced the trajectory of "an invented veteran salsa band being reborn in a compromised state, questioning our obsession with truth and lies, illusion and