¡Vamos a Guarachar!

"Sergio Mendoza is one of the great innovators of the Arizona music scene. He's a composer, arranger, producer and programmer who plays keyboards, guitar, percussion and horns, and works with the fine American band Calexico. He may be based in Tucson, but his inspiration comes from south of a border that is not blocked by any walls. With Orkesta Mendoza he sets out to update and enliven the Latin big band tradition, mixing influences from Mexico and across Latin America with electronica, strings and unexpected bursts of western pop ... Classy and enormous fun".

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"Laying down simmering slabs of cumbia and mambo, tempered with a folkloric, tex-mex psychedelic edge, Orkesta Mendoza brings you their latest album all the way from Tucson Arizona. Lead by musical polymath, Sergio Mendoza, who is also a member and co-producer of Southwestern music legends Calexico at the helm they are smashing down walls between the U.S and Mexico, heralding a borderless musical style that spans Northern, Central and South America by tipping a sombrero to ranchero, merengue, psychedelic pop and analogue electronica ... It has been said that Sergio Mendoza has cumbia and mambo in his DNA, however he shows so much more in this album with so many other styles and the Calexico influences are still proving strong".