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- country:Peru
- style(s):Electronic, Folk
- label:Strut Records
- type:Band
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:electronic, rock band, guitar
- artist posted by:Ballantyne Communications
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Peruvian 'wandering folk' beatniks Kanaku y El Tigre, release their sophomore (and first international) album, ‘Quema Quema Quema’, via the acclaimed Strut imprint in conjunction with Tiger’s Milk Records.
Quema Quema Quema’ (meaning ‘Burn Burn Burn’ in Spanish and lifted from Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’) is the product of two years honing the Kanaku sound at the band’s Lima studio HQ and the result is a record which is feverish in intensity and which screams with joy and cries for help in the same breath.
Back in 2010, their debut album ‘Caracoles’ brought Kanaku’s creative duo Nico Saba and Bruno Bellatin considerable success and acclaim in Peru with a set of quirky songs inspired by American folk. Including a hit single with the title track, and second single used in a couple of film soundtracks, the album was considered to be one of the country’s albums of the year. Five years on, and creatively the band have transformed themselves. ‘Quema Quema Quema’ is testament to their newfound approach with its euphoric, unapologetically feel-good hooks littered with electronic jitters, ghostly delays, serene Hawaiian slide guitars and a chorus of other-wordly vocal harmonies.
"As far as world releases go, Quema Quema Quema easily amounts to one of the best in the market in 2015" Pop Matters
Mojo 4/5
Songlines 4/5
"Sounds like the B52s at their ramshackle best...vibrant, sonically exploratory, alternative pop" The Independent ****