Amparo
Maria Usbeck
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Reviews (2)
The observer
d. 15. Nov. 2015
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Neil Spencer
d. 15. Nov. 2015
"Peru has become a world music hotspot, its loping cumbia rhythms cross-pollinating with surf guitar (a longstanding passion in Amazonian Peru) and assorted electronica. Bareto, the country's leading "tropical" band, touch all bases on this fifth album and first international release, mixing the mega-twang of surf guitar on instrumentals like La Voz del Sinchi with dreamy acoustica on El Loco, the latter featuring singer Susana Baca, the country's most celebrated musical export".
fRoots
2016 Jan/Feb
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Michael Stone
2016 Jan/Feb
"Despite frequent association with chicha and cumbia, Peru's Bareto defies solitary confinement within those genres. "Impredecible" ("unpredictable") certainly nods in that direction with space-age surf guitar instrumentals such as País De Las Maravillas, Mamá Motelo and La Voz Del Sinchi ... But over the past dozen years, Bareto has crafted a distinctive voice, melding samples and electronica with strains of reggae, Latin American folk idioms, Afro-Peruvian traditions [here including a vocal cameo by Susana Baca], salsa, rock, and global popular sounds ... Medellín producer Felipe Álvarez - known for his signal work with ChocQuib Town, Calle Trece, Monsieur Periné, and Bomba Estéreo - manned the boards for the Peruvian and Colombian sessions, with expert mixing by Sidestepper's Richard Blair, making for a thoroughly unpredictable, eclectic, and engaging result with pan-Latin appeal".