Amoeba Music

Los Amigos Invisibles is a Venezuelan band now based in New York that combines house, disco, funk, Latin, acid Jazz, and anything else that will fill up the dancefloor. Los Amigos Invisibles is José Luis Pardo, Julio Briceño, Armando Figueredo, Mauricio Arcas, José Rafael Torres, and Juan Manuel Roura. Their debut album, A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band,  was released in Venezuela in 1995. Their second album, The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera, was released on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label in 1998. Since their creation the band has been touring constantly, cementing their reputation for incindiary live shows. Their latest album, Commericial (Nacional, 2009), which includes special guests Jorge Gonzalez (Los Prisioneros) and Mexican songstress Natalia Lafourcade, earned them their 5th career Grammy nomination and their first Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album.