Canibalismo

"If Pulp Fiction had been a South rather than North American production, there is no doubt it's soundtrack would have oozed chicha ... Chicha Libre's new record takes the classic chicha sound and blows it wide open with an infusion of other styles sourced from various distinct genres. Multiple musical layers cross over one another and create a chaotic yet controlled fever, while loops and melodies spin off in every direction. The psychedelic effects and intricate scales employed by the band evoke all manner of environment: the Wild West, space, a haunted house. This highly animated fusion, a reworking of old cumbia songs with original composition, is crucial to the band's retro party vibe and results in an album of explosive fun".

"Chicha, a category of home-fermented drinks encountered around Latin America, gave its name to a gritty 1960s-vintage Peruvian dance style recently "discovered" and retrofitted in the global North. Hailing from Brooklyn, France, Venezuela and Mexico, Chicha Libre (...) concocts a wicked stew of Peruvian pop, Dick Dale surf guitar, West African vamps, Beethoven, Wagner, Afro-Caribbean percussion, cheesy synthesizers, sundry electronics, tropicalia, rock en español and a generous dose of pan-Latin cumbia. This, their second outing, serves up 13 sundry originals and an arch reworking of Richard Wagner's The Ride Of The Valkyries, with a devil-may-care recital of dead-on musicianship and multi-culti panache".