Indie pop and post-rock group
Pumuky is a Tenerife-born project around Jaír and Noé Ramírez, now one of the Canary Islands’ references for introspective indie pop and post-rock.
Jaír Ramírez began around 2002 under the alias Alex Kid en el País de las Tormentas and changed to Pumuky in 2003. The project gained recognition with a demo highlighted by Radio 3’s Disco Grande and Rockdelux, released De viaje al país de las tormentas between 2005 and 2006, and gradually consolidated as a band with Noé Ramírez and other musicians. It later released Los exploradores perdidos, El bosque en llamas, Plus Ultra and Justicia Poética.
Its importance lies in giving the Spanish indie circuit a recognisable Canarian voice without reducing itself to island exoticism. The 2010 FMAC cited it among the acts with acclaimed records beyond the islands, and Justicia Poética reached stages such as Primavera Sound and countries such as Peru and Chile.
The repertory combines melodic pop, slow atmospheres, post-rock textures and intimate writing. It is serene, deep and mysterious music; in the Jabalina stage the group keeps that emotional pulse with denser arrangements.
Pumuky’s transmission comes through independent labels, specialist radio, festivals and a listening community that has followed its line-up changes. Its path helps explain how the Canarian indie scene built national networks from a peripheral position.
Jaír Ramírez reappears with a new alias and demo.
The debut album appears on Federación de Universos Pop.
The third LP is recorded at La Mina with Raúl Pérez.
Jabalina releases the fourth LP and the band gains national and international visibility.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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