Facundo Vargas Jimenez

Facundo "Kunt" Vargas Jimenez is a musician, archaeologist and visual artist from the municipality of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Mixes. His native language is Ayuujk. He has been dedicated to music since childhood and has more than ten years of experience as a professional musician on the trombone. He has participated in various projects and musical styles, including important roles in Ensemble Kafka and Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown, in the big band Jazz of Oaxaca and in improvisation sessions with Germán Bringas, Roberto Morales and Antonio Russek.

He currently plays in the funk-Balkan jazz band Los Pream, composed of musicians from Tlahuitoltepec. As a soloist, he plays experimental music, exploring the limits of the trombone, using techniques with materials such as "jicaras" (a cup formed from a gourd) and tubes.