Tigres en fuga

"The intricate melody lines of their shimmering Fender guitars, intertwined with clattering Latin percussion, remain a mesmeric force, whether on instrumentals such as Lobos al Escape, or on whooping vocal numbers such as La Primavera Triste. Forget the pan-pipe cliches - Amazonian psychedelia strikes back!".

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"We're talking twangy guitar-driven Peruvian cumbia here, the kind that's sometimes referred to as chicha, originally made back in the 1960's and '70s in the Amazon jungle by local kids hyped up on trad tropical rhythms, Colombian sounds and US psychedelic rock, surf and soul, which has been more recently revived by New York's Chicha Libre and London's Los Chinches ... This is a new recording by the originals. Cumbia All Stars feature eight singers and musicians who were all part of the groundbreaking Peruvian cumbia wave ... By all accounts their showcase performance caused quite a stir at last year's Womex and on the evidence of this album, it isn't hard to see why. This is the real deal: eleven tracks of classic rolling cumbia, complete with call and response vocals, the hiss and scrape of tropical percussion and bucketloads of ringing guitar. People with deep roots playing them to perfection".