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- country:USA
- region:New York City
- style(s):Cumbia, Experimental
- label:Barbes Recors
- type:Band
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Trouble Worldwide
Line up
- Greg Burrows (Percussion )
- Joshua Camp (Hohner Electravox & vocals)
- Neil Ochoa (Percussion )
- Nicholas Cudahy (Bass)
- Olivier Conan (Cuatro & Vocals)
- Vincent Douglas (Guitar)
Links
Chicha Libre is showcasing at Womex on Friday, October 29th at Foyer Stage 2 DR Koncerthuset at 1am.
Inspired by the Amazonian music craze that shares its name with the liquor favoured by the Incas and still very popular throughout Peru, this new Brooklyn-based band intoxicate with their potent mixture of Latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop. Chicha Libre draw their inspiration from chicha, a form of Peruvian music that emerged in the early '70s, loosely derived from Colombian accordion-driven cumbias but incorporating Andean melodies, some Cuban son and heady swirls of surf guitar, farfisa organ and moog synth. Chicha Libre combine covers of forgotten chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpret '70s pop classics (such as "Popcorn" and Joe Dassin/Toto Cutugno's 1975 hit "Indian Summer"), and even take some Ravel and Satie pieces to the cumbia cleaners. They pay homage with humour, pushing past pastiche into a strange, sun-blanched epiphany.