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From the upcoming Nortec Panoptica Orchestra album, an experiment on cumbia, banda (brass) and dub.  

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Track taken from Sonido Gallo Negro's new album 'Sendero Mistico'. Get the album here: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/



"Their work has a haunted house quality that hints at the struggle between existential darkness an raucous vitality that animates much Mexican art and culture ... This album is a blast, a perfect soundtrack to mixed company, hard alcohol, late hours and high volume."
- Wire (UK)



"Musically they are incredible ... One of the most original sounds I've heard this year, really intense and enthralling in equal measure."
- Music News  (UK)


 

"A psychedelic sixties jungle sounds with Latin American Rhythms, it rattles, whimpers and whistles like on old Martin Denny's albums."

- Rolling Stone (DE)


 

"They blitz their way through psychedelic themes with the occasional ghostly shouting whilst playing a mix of spaghetti western and surf. It’s high energy from start to finish and executed with aplomb ... It’s certainly an enjoyable album and one which succeeds at fusing several musical styles into one overflowing pot." 8/10

- Louder Than War (UK)


 

"This is a joyous trip into Latin psychadelia with a deliberate nod to the 1970s and anyone who might criticise the group for being overly cheesy in the use of instrumentation is missing the point entirely: that is an essential ingredient of the band’s sound and a raw rootsy retro groove is precisely what the band are striving to achieve and doing it extremely well it has to be said ... This album should be enjoyed with a spicy enchilada muy saboroso and a cool beer for the ideal way to wind down an evening in June. Music to enjoy the summer months away to."

-UKvibe (UK)


 

“Sonido Gallo Negro (translated as "Black Rooster Sound") makes work that's simultaneously vintage and ultra-modern ... Rising from the city's eastern Aragon neighborhood, Sonido Gallo Negro often performs clad in monk robes or matching red outfits, and live footage confirms a band obsessed with resurrecting buried sounds and turning them into something completely new.”

- Los Angeles Times (USA)


 

"An explosive and irresistible mixture of this second album (the first published internationally by Glitterbeat) and a powerful stage presence (see video) will infect the whole world!”

- Extra Music Magazine (IT)


 

"The absence of voices and the use of hammond and theremin characterizes and catalogs them on a global scope ... Fun to listen to." (7/8)

- Blow Up (IT)


 

“A very contemporary version of cumbia, namely a post-modern retro-manic cumbia, a trip back to the psychedelic 1960s and 1970s.”

- Funkhauseuropa


 

"This is psych-funk music at its best. Fans of Turkey's Hayvanlar Alemi will find similarities with Sonido's music. Overall, Sendero Mistico is a wild journey with danceable rhythms and great melodies that transcend a defined description. However, everyone will find happiness in the tunes of Sonido Gallo Negro. Get your psych-on today!"

- Inside World Music (USA)


 

"A very inspired one on which they play a tight and compact chicha with howling farfisa organs, psychedelic influences, groovy percussion (like the lovely cumbia rasp) and surf sound (wahwah and distorted) guitars. The music on ‘Sendero mistico’ (mystic road) isn’t mysterious at all. It’s smiling music, from the beginning ’till the end in a joyful balance between lovely melodies, exciting percussion on Peruvian basics!"

- Music Frames (NL)


 

"Absolute discovery!"

- Tropicalidad.be (BE)



"A group that will surprise the listeners..."
- Blogfoolk (IT)


 

“The vintage sound of farfisa evokes memories of the Boogaloo from New York's Spanish Harlem, and the swinging percussion is reminiscent of the thriving Cumbia scene from the Peru of the fifties. At the same time it also shows the Mexicans with...crack guitar work, giving it all a contemporary character.”

-Platomania (NL)


SONIDO GALLO NEGRO is:
Gabriel López: electric guitar, organ
Enrique Casasola: timbales
Israel Martínez: bass
Edwin Irigoyen: congas
Lucio de los Santos: flute, bongos
Dario Maldonado: second electric guitar
Robert Bañuelos: güiro, claves
Julian Perez: organ, synthesizers, samplers
Dr. Alderete: theremin, tagtool, artwork

BAND:
Twitter: twitter.com/sonidogayonegro
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sonidogallonegro

LABEL:
Homepage: www.glitterbeat.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Glitterbeat
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/glitterbeattv
Twitter: twitter.com/Glitterbeat_Rec
Soundcloud: @glitterbeat

Sonido Gallo Negro - La Patrona

Pedro Laza - Lindo Magdalena

Tolu - Lucho Bermudez

Taken from the album "¡Vamos A Guarachar!"
Release date: October 7th, 2016
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Something is stirring in downtown Tucson. That’s no great surprise perhaps: Calexico have been sending out missives from the desert for 20 years now, Giant Sand for even longer than that, and the Green on Red revival is surely overdue. These three giants of American popular music ask questions of the form, chiefly because of where they are situated. Let us remind ourselves that this isn’t a big city in the American sense (it’s the country’s 33rd largest), but that its hinterland is indeed as big as it gets. For an hour south, Mexico starts. And this is where things get interesting.

Born in Nogales, Arizona, raised in Nogales, Sonora, multi-instrumentalist and band-leader Sergio Mendoza grew up listening to the Mexican regional styles jostling for headspace in a young, music-mad mind – cumbia mainly, but mambo, rancheras and mariachi too. The border is always a fierce arena of exchange, both commercial and cultural, and so there was American music too. At one point ‘rock and roll, the classics’, as Mendoza himself deadpans, seemed to win out and he stopped playing those ‘Latin styles’ for a good decade and a half.

The return to those sounds was a strong one in 2012’s Mambo Mexicano, co-produced by Mendoza and Joey Burns of Calexico – a band for which Mendoza has become an increasingly integral touring and recording member. While that record had a studied air, tentative in parts (as befits the renewal of an old love affair), ¡Vamos A Guarachar! is another beast entirely: by turns raucous (‘Cumbia Volcadora’, featuring Mexican electronic pioneer Camilo Lara), tender (‘Misterio’, surely Salvador Duran’s finest moment with the band so far) and plain serious fun, as in ‘Contra La Marea’ and ‘Mapache’, it also bears a robust electronic edge, a keen pop sensibility and all the hallmarks of Mendoza’s love of 60s rock, with the closing track, ‘Shadows of the Mind’, sure to be included if anyone decides to update the Nuggets collection for the 21st century. This is roundabout way of saying that it appears to have everything, but never too much of anything. Focused, fierce and beautifully executed by a superbly drilled set of musicians, it is a record that fully matches the band’s explosive live performances.

Nogales, Sonora, Nogales, Arizona: this is what the border looks like here – for now. To talk about borders and the diasporas they create, is to be pitched headlong into our era’s most urgent debate, marked by Trump’s lurid obscenities and the lines being hastily reinstated across Europe. Orkesta Mendoza’s contribution to that debate is to show us what the border sounds like and what masterpieces can be achieved by honest cultural exchange. What we decide to do with that information is up to us. With this record, however, we’ll have an awful lot of fun deciding.

You could, of course, take the trip to Tucson yourself, to the home of this essential set of field recordings. The scene hangs out together, so … if the stars align and their frantic tour schedules permit, you might see any number of folks from Calexico, Giant Sand or up-and-coming cumbia rockers Xixa deep in conversation somewhere in town with a quiet young man in black. That’s Sergio. Right now, in this endless game of Tucson tag, Orkesta Mendoza are IT.


Vamos A Guarachar

¡Vamos A Guarachar!

Orkesta Mendoza - Cumbia Volcadora (feat. Camilo Lara)

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto // Dub de Gaita 
Tierra de Poetas
Música Original: Carmelo Torres 

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, iconos de la música tradicional colombiana, el legendario productor de dub ingles Adrian Sherwood y Diego Gómez de Llorona Records se unen en DUB DE GAITA (EL FIN DEL MUNDO), un disco que explora las raices de la cumbia y las musicas de gaita a partir de la sonoridad y las técnicas de mezcla del dub. El disco grabado entre Colombia e Inglaterra y que cuenta con los nombres mas representativos de la música de gaita en Colombia además de invitados especiales como Mario Galeano (Ondatropica y Frente Cumbiero) y legendas del DUB / REGGAE ingles como Skip McDonald (Little Axe), George Oben y The Ital Horns, será lanzado en Colombia y el mundo en el 2014.

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, colombian cumbia roots icons, joined legendary ON U SOUND producer Adrian Sherwood and Llorona Records´s Diego Gómez to create a unique album that will take you to the mystical birth of the unique sound of the Caribbean Coast of Colombia spiced up with the dub mixing techniques of one of UK´s dub legends.

Produced by Adrian Sherwood and Diego Gómez
Mixed by Adrian Sherwood at On U Sound
Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe at Sound Masters UK

www.lloronarecords.com

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto are: Juan "Chuchita" Fernandez, Toño García, Gabriel Torregrosa, Wilson Fontalvo, Beto Bartagena, Carmelo Torres, John Fuentes, Damian Bossio, Freddy Arrieta

Special Guests: Skip McDonald, George Oben, The Ital Horns, Mario Galeano

El fin del mundo

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto / Dub de Gaita - Tierra de Poetas (Dub mix)

From the sweltering tropical depths of Cali, Colombia Will ‘Quantic’ Holland’s studio band Los Miticos Del Ritmo (The Mythics of Rhythm) return with an album of hip shaking, dancefloor quaking instrumental cumbias. Released on CD, LP and download on the 30th April. The LP is 100% analogue and comes with an original screen-printed front cover designed by the London based artist Lewis Heriz.

Assembled using vallenato and cumbia musicians living in Cali, Los Miticos del Ritmo are a 7 piece studio band put together by British musician, producer and now Colombian resident Will ‘Quantic’ Holland.

Covers of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop’, The Abyssinians reggae classic 'Satta Massagana'  and Gildardo Montoya’s ‘Fabiola’ (as featured on Soundway’s ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ sit along side original cumbias on this feel good, house party cumbia LP.

Recorded in Will’s home studio in Cali, his approach was to produce an album with the aesthetics of 1960s tropical recordings made in Colombia and the Caribbean. Careful attention made to preserve the analogue quality of the recording at every stage.

‘The idea of the record was to record something that sounded like a lost cumbia classic,’ said Will in a recent interview with Soundway ‘Like something dug out of a Barranquilla basement after decades of humidity and dust. In a modern climate of mashups and sampling, it seemed refreshing to record something with musicians doing covers and approaching new ideas for cumbia, rather than rehashing old tricks.’

The record was recorded entirely on 4 track tape, using a process of overdubs and tape transfers to record multiple sessions at different times with different musicians. As Holland began to play the dub plates of the project in his DJ sets around the world, tracks like ‘Cumbia de Mochilla’ and ‘Another one Bites the Dust’ slowly became sure-fire dancefloor winners.

Los Mitcios Del Ritmo first saw the light of day on Quantic’s vinyl only EP ‘Hip Hop En Cumbia’, released last year through Tru Thoughts. The group includes Ancer Rada (percussion) grandson of the great Colombian accordionist Franscisco Pacho Rada, one of very first Colombian troubadours to tour unaccompanied with just his voice and accordion. The band is also compromised of Combo Barbaro regulars Fernando Silva (bass) and Freddy Colorado (percussion).

Since moving to Colombia in 2007 Will has slowly immersed himself in the musical history of the country. The much acclaimed ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’, a 55 track compilation of Colombian cumbia and porro released on Soundway in 2011, was the result of five years of field research from Will. Simply finding and compiling old records is not however in Will’s DNA. The research is more an education for Quantic the musician who has been learning accordion for close to five years now, even taking lessons from Colombian and Panamanian accordion masters such as Anibal Velasquez and Papi Brandao.

Los Miticos Del Ritmo sees Will as an accordionist for an entire long player for the first time and must be the first traditional cumbia record recorded on tape in Colombia for many years.

Los Miticos Del Ritmo - Otro Muerde El Polvo (Another One Bites The Dust)

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From the upcoming Compilation "Diablos Del Ritmo" - The colombian Melting Pot 1960 - 1985

After half a decade in which seven expeditions were made to Barranquilla, Analog Africa is honored to present “Diablos del Ritmo,” an anthology of - and tribute to - the immense sound of 60/70s Colombia. Thousands of records were collected, boiling down to a colorfully diverse selection of 32 tracks (available on Double CD, 2 x Double LP and digital format), Split between Afrobeat, Afrofunk, Psychedelia-inspired rhythms on Part.1 and an array of danceable tropical rhythms on Part.2

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From the Compilation "Diablos Del Ritmo" - The colombian Melting Pot 1960 - 1985

After half a decade in which seven expeditions were made to Barranquilla, Analog Africa is honored to present “Diablos del Ritmo,” an anthology of - and tribute to - the immense sound of 1970s Colombia. Thousands of records were collected, boiling down to a colorfully diverse selection of 32 tracks (available on Double CD, 2 x Double LP and digital format), Split between Afrobeat, Afrofunk, Psychedelia-inspired rhythms on Part 1 and an array of danceable tropical rhythms on Part 2

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