Bushwick is home to musicians from a panoply of backgrounds and across a broad spectrum of genres, and plenty of performers shoot music videos here. However, few of those videos deftly weave elements of daily life in Bushwick into a visual narrative that perfectly complements the song. A new music video for the track “Timbalaye” by the masterful Latin revival band Los Hacheros does just that.
The video features the members of Los Hacheros before a vivid backdrop of street art, and its visual narrative follows a little girl running through the neighborhood with her pitbull, getting a piragua and bringing a Puerto Rican flag up to a roof, where it is used to direct a flock of homing pigeons wheeling above the neighborhood above salsa dancers on the sidewalk. “Yo say Latinoafricano” is the singer’s refrain; the video is both powerfully soulful, but also jubilant.
