Tripping through different electronic sounds, traditional music flavours continually emerge between the deep synths and powerful beats that the new generation of producers from Peru are putting in the mix. When you start listening to Peru Boom (a road... Read Article
Already known by many as one of the best kept secrets of the tropical bass underground network. the proud Peruvian producer born Alvaro Ernesto goes by his global double agent moniker Tribilin Sound. Under this name you can... Read Article
This year we are set to launch our third publication, a book, CD and DVD devoted to the music and culture of Peru. The book will follow in the footsteps of our Colombia and Brazil publications and, not... Read Article
Peru’s tropical fusion combo Bareto are back with a new single, “La Voz Del Sinchi”, a first taste from their upcoming fourth album. Bareto have been playing music together since 2003, at first starting with a fusion of rock, reggae and... Read Article
Sometimes it is quite surprising how a sound or even a music style can move, translate and restate itself thousand of miles away from its original residence. An example is what has happened with Piper Street Sound, the... Read Article
Rolando Bruno understands chicha. Even though he’s a youngish Argentine, he’s able to hone in on the percussiveness psychedelia of sixties-era Peru with his band, Los Peyotes, and his solo project, Rolando Bruno y Su Orquesta MIDI. Both... Read Article
At first listen, it is so striking that it seems like a debut. Tigres en Fuga sounds fresh, vigorous and resonant, spreading incessant and pulsating rhythms for the entirety of the album’s 40 minutes. But then, when you... Read Article
From cumbia’s modest beginnings in Colombia, its influence has now stretched across the majority of South America. The sound of “Digital Cumbia” is a relatively new beast, with the primary sites of production now being Lima, Peru and... Read Article
This concoction of Southern comfort goes down smooth, though heavily filtered and remotely distilled in the Piedmont. No, not in the Altiplano region of Peru, but the Piedmont, a plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic coastal plain and the main Appalachian mountains. Still,... Read Article
Despite the recent referendum in favour of the introduction of immigration quotas, Switzerland is more than ever a hustle and bustle of cultures and traditions. The national football team has become famous as an embodiment of multi-culturalism, but... Read Article
Since its humble beginnings in the oil-boom cities of 1960s Peru, the psychedelic sound of chicha has grown to be internationally recognized as an essential part of Peruvian culture. The country’s cumbia amazónica gained notoriety in the Western... Read Article
For the new year, the North Pole has decided to gift the United States a big, fat, awful round of frigid air via an atrocity called the ‘polar vortex.’ (Readers from the United Kingdom will know what I’m... Read Article
