DESCRIPTION:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0QZhvkv5MMz2QjFkFa1PkD
Band members 1994 - 1999:
Daniel Puente Encina - Composer, author, voc & git (1994 - 1999)
Alex Menck: bass (1994 - 1999)
Norman Jankowski: drums, percussion (1994 - 1999)
Tina Trillian Bartel: keys (1996 - 1999)

DANIEL PUENTE ENCINA - Composer, author, vocals & guitar
Born in Santiago de Chile, the composer, guitarrist and singer-songwriter Daniel Puente Encina formed the anti-fascist band Los Pinochet Boys in the eighties, who were later ordered to leave the country by the ruling military regime. On a search for new impressions he travelled alone to Brazil, Argentina, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg where he set up a new band in the nineties: Niños Con Bombas. They toured through the USA, South America (eg Festival Rock al Parque - 90.000 spectators in the audience) and Europe. In Germany they are known amongst others as the successful support band to Einstuerzenden Neubauten. Niños Con Bombas has won the John Lennon Talent Award (JLTA) in 1995. Their songs can be listened in Fatih Akins movie "Short Sharp Shock / Kurz und Schmerzlos" from 1998.
Since 2000 Daniel performed and produced as Polvorosa in Barcelona. Some of the songs can be heard in Fatih Akin's films such as In July (Im Juli) or his multi award winning film Head-On (original title: Gegen die Wand). Since 2012 he has been publishing music under his own name. http://www.danielpuenteencina.com/

ALEX MENCK - bass
Alex was born in São Paulo, Brazil, he is a scientific thinker with an artistic spirit. He studied Molecular Biology in Hamburg, Germany where he met Daniel, Norman and Trillian. In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles, studying Film/TV and Music at UCLA, deepening his knowledge of the art of film scoring. Over the last decade, Alex has worked as a composer, sound designer, music editor, music supervisor and music producer on myriad film and television projects both in the United States and abroad.
In the last 30 years he has worked with Universal Pictures, Disney, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Lion's Gate Films, HBO, Showtime, The Sci-Fi Channel, The Sundance Channel, DIRECTV, Mercedes-Benz, Toshiba and McDonald's, among others. Alex Menck today is music supervisor, composer and executive director of Air Lumiére, Los Angeles. http://www.airlumiere.com/

NORMAN JANKOWSKI - Drums / Percussion
Norman Jankowski grew up in Eastern Westfalia, Germany. His Dad bought him his first drum kit when he was seven years old. At the Age of eight, Norman started to take classes at the Loehne School of Music, where he was educated in classical percussion and jazz drumming by Hans-Peter Drenckhahn. Soon after starting classes he got on Stage by the Age of nine. During his Childhood and Youth, Norman joined Symphony Orchestras, Brass and Big Bands in his natal Area. Reaching the times of Rock n Roll and after a few local Rockbands he decided to leave the Countryside and moved to Hamburg where he soon joined the Latin-Punk Band Niños Con Bombas. On Tour in Brazil that Norman was introduced to the brazilian Frame Drum, the Pandeiro on which he plays most his Gigs today. After Niños Con Bombas split up, he lived in Brazil, from where he moved to Spain for to work with Polvorosa and Cheikha Band. He also worked with Tapeplas and Hofesh Shechter Company.
http://myspace.com/normanjankowski

TINA TRILLIAN BARTEL - Keyboards, Vocals
Trillian is a German multi-instrumentalist who studied Sound Engineering / Digital Production in Hamburg where she met Daniel and then got incorporated in his band Niños Con Bombas. When Alex left the band Daniel, Norman and Trillian carried on together and formed Polvorosa in 2000. Trillian left the band in 2005.

AUDIO CDs:
De Tiempo En El Momento De La Explosión (1996)
El Niño (1997)

SOUNDTRACKS:
Movie: Kurz und Schmerzlos/ Short Sharp Shock - Original soundtrack. Ninos Con Bombas (Fatih Akin 1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162426/
Niños Con Bombas: Del tiempo en el momento de la explosión.
Video filmed in Tongoy, Chile. Directed by Klaus Maeck.