A Love Electric is a psychedelic power trio hailing from Mexico City's vibrant jazz scene, blending raw energy with experimental flair across genres. Formed by guitarist and vocalist Todd Clouser, a Minnesota native now rooted in Mexico City, alongside Jorge Servin (originally Hernan Hecht)) and Mexican bassist Aaron Cruz, the band embodies a cross-cultural fusion of rock, jazz, and psychedelia. Emerging from the city's underground music circles, they have carved out a space for unbridled creativity, refusing to conform to market-driven labels and instead channeling imagination into soundscapes that defy categorization.

Over a decade of relentless output, A Love Electric has released seven albums on labels spanning the US, Mexico, and Europe, while touring the world on their own terms—performing over a thousand shows across four continents. Their commitment to artistic freedom has earned acclaim, with La Jornada hailing them as "the tomorrow of creative rock" and "one of the most progressive and important groups of recent years," Jazz Times calling their work "a celebration of the creative," and Vive Latino describing the lineup as "a savage guitarist, a ruthless drummer, an enormous bassist."

Their latest record, "Man and Machine," marks a new chapter in their evolving sound, exploring themes of humanity amid technological chaos through eight songs running from obtuse groove to reflective turn-of-the-world anthems.

  “A savage guitarist, a ruthless drummer, an enormous bassist” - Vive Latino, MX City

  “Fuzzed out guitars and acid rock” - Time Out NYC

  Collaborators

A Love Electric performs regularly with luminaries of the New York downtown scene John Medeski, Cyro Baptista, Billy Martin, a number of Mexico’s most daring independent artists from free jazz legend German Bringas to emerging hip hop acts, and alongside communities throughout Mexico, most notably working regularly with young musicians from the Oaxacan Sierra, the pocket brass band “Tlayuda”.

Todd Clouser performs with Klezmerson on John Zorn written Tzadik releases "Book of Angels : Amon" and "The Book of Beriah".

“Explosive” - The Prague Post

 “Fascinating” - NPR

How it happened

The band is fronted by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Todd Clouser. Clouser, Kansas born and Minneapolis grown, moved to Mexico City in 2011 after meeting drummer/producer Hernan Hecht and bassist Aaron Cruz. After stints in rehab in the US, time in Boston, Colorado, Minneapolis, US van tours, and records crossing genres, labels, and success, Clouser saw the opportunity to have a real, democratic band, and jumped at it, moving into a small apartment in the Mexico City neighborhood of Portales to be close to Cruz and Hecht. The results have been prolific and fascinating.

The three members of A Love Electric live within a block of each other in Mexico City, a city of 26 million people. Once an instrumental group falling into the jazz genre, A Love Electric has evolved into a vocal fronted rock ensemble while still maintaining the spirit they see as essential to “jazz” : the spirit of discovery, and a dedication to ambitious inquiry. Challenge is what the band embraces, on buses through Northern Africa to indigenous communities in the mountains of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, A Love Electric is out, to discover, cultivate, and share a life of inquiry as the band lives it.

A Love Electric has performed at Festivals from rock giant Vive Latino in Mx City to Solarte in Spain, Winter Jazzfest NYC, and in theaters, clubs and concert halls from The Town Hall in New York City to B Flat Jazz in Berlin, Germany, averaging nearly 130 concerts a year along with working as philanthropists in music education.

God Save the Surf (2023)