Chicha Libre - Sonidos Amazonico! (2024 reissue) [2LP]

Barbès Records

£35.98

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: BR17
Barcode: 0659123115414
Release Date: 18 Oct 2024
Genre: Funk

2024 Repress. Chicha Libre’s debut album, Sonido Amazonico is finally available on vinyl in Europe. The double album contains all original tracks first published as a CD back in 2008. The vinyl edition is comprised of 3 sides of music, and a fourth side with an etching of iconic Venezuelan saint Jose Gregorio. Chicha, Peruvian psychedelic cumbia, was first popularized outside of Peru by a compilation released by Chicha Libre's own Olivier Conan and entitled "The Roots of Chicha." The music proved popular around the world, being championed by people such as Elijah Wood, Matt Groening, Alex Kapranos and director Almadovar. The Brooklyn band Chicha Libre started out as a tribute to Peruvian pioneers but quickly evolved into an original project which MTV has called “one of the world's preeminent Tropical Psychedelic band”. Indeed, while they remain true to their Chicha roots, Chicha Libre's quickly took a more psychedelic turn drawing from its members' alternative background. Made up of Mexican, Venezuelan, French and American the band used surf guitar, organ sounds and Latin percussion to play a mixture of borrowed and homegrown sounds – but its music remains a freeform reinvention, not an exercise in nostalgic duplication. The re-release coincides with the release of a new EP “Tequila y Aguardiente”, in collaboration with Son Rompe Pera and La Sonora Mazuren.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Sonido Amazonico
A2. Primavera en la selva
A3. Mi plato de barro
A4. Tres pasajeros
A5. The Hungry Song
B1. El borrachito
B2. Pavane
B3. Six pieds sous terre
B4. Un Shipibo en España
B5. Indian Summer