New Sounds Of Peru #8

By 02 July, 2020

It’s now been more than 100 days since quarantine and the beginning of a State of Emergencyin Peru. Our government has barely begun to address how the music industry has been crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving us to handle the situation and our losses by ourselves. We’ve now lost too many of our masters not to be angry and desperate. On June 20th, only four days before the San Juan celebration (the most important festival in the Peruvian selva), Tulio Trigozo lost his life to COVID-19. He was the founder of the cumbia rock orchestra Sonido 2000, which has been a staple of that particular brand of cumbia for more than 30 years ago. He had retired, but his daughter Cheryl and son Tulín kept the band alive. Sadly, both of them also have the virus, and their mother too. [Raul ‘Ranil’ Llerena and two members of another cumbia band, Los Wembler’s, also died during the pandemic – editor’s note]. We are incredibly sad and it feels like we somehow have to find some normality through all this chaos. We are getting too used to waking up and learn someone else we love, or even know from afar, aren’t here anymore. Life is just passing by, and we desperately need to find the strength to keep our will alive. These songs are helping us to do that.

Listen to the playlist here:

The latest additions are below, complete with videos:

Ati Lane – Lado B

Genre: Folk
City: Lima

Naïa Valdez – Siento

Genre: Folk pop
City: Lima

Dan Dan Dero – Lluvia

Genre: Indie pop
City: Lima

Ximena Vasquez – Life

Genre: Folk pop
City: Lima

Samanez – Enamorado del pasado

Genre: Bolero pop
City: Cusco

Nicolás Duarte – Acá Lloraban

Genre: Rock pop
City: Lima

REIIINA – Princess

Genre: Indie pop
City: Lima

Dreams On Board – Origen

Genre: Electronic
City: Lima

Somontano ft. Lorena Blume – mifuturo

Genre: Pop
City: Lima

Mostradamuz – Serotonina

Genre: Indie Funk
City: Lima

Marden Crunjer ft. Eme, Dinosauria – Monocromático: Más Igualdad Perú

Genre: Pop
City: Lima

Angelo con Baja Autoestima – Buenos Días

Genre: Indie rock
City: Lima

Los Smiks – Un Montón de Estrellas

Genre: Punk
City: Lima

Los Protones – RQ

Genre: Rockabilly
City: Lima

Olaya Sound System – Cantemos

Genre: Cumbia
City: Lima

La Kincha ft. Olaya Sound System- La Balanza

Genre: Reggae
City: Lima

Pintura Roja – Te Olvidaste de Mi

Genre: Cumbia Sanjuanera
City: Huarochirí

Sonido 2000 – Canto Por No Llorar

Genre: Cumbia Sanjuanera
City: Tarapoto


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