Afrobeat revolucionario desde Chile. Newen Afrobeat y el grande Pepe Mujica en la intro. Afrobeat for revolution from Chile. Newen Afrobeat and the great Pepe Mujica in the intro.

Santiago

Proyecto artístico sin animo de lucro por la preservación de la Amazonía. 

www.ama-zonas.net

03 Seinekvn (Featuring Manu Chao)

02 - Duda Morena (ft. Chango Spasiuk)

Luna Negra (Los Cojolites)

A mediados del 2009 el FRENTE CUMBIERO invitó a Bogotá al legendario productor de dub Mad Professor, como parte del proyecto Incubator del British Council, con el objetivo de realizar un encuentro sonoro entre la cumbia y el dub. Durante 3 días y bajo la orientación de Mad Professor y su hijo Joe Ariwa, se grabaron en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana varios temas para ser tratados bajo la estética del dub. Además de grabar composiciones originales del FRENTE, parte importante del proyecto buscaba reunir a músicos claves de la escena bogotana a improvisar y crear juntos en estudio.

De esas improvisaciones salieron 3 composiciones colectivas, que se suman a 4 originales del FRENTE para un total de 7 temas que fueron remezclados con técnicas propias del dub por Mad Professor en su estudio ARIWA en Londres. El resultado de este disco, además de convertirse en uno de los primeros encuentros tangibles entre la cumbia y el dub, aporta un nuevo sonido colombiano al poderoso movimiento de cumbia continental.

¡GUACHARACA TRANSNACIONAL! 
credits 
released 01 November 2010 
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Temas 1,4,5,6 
Mario Galeano Toro: Bajo, guacharaca / Pedro Ojeda: Batería, timbal / Eblis Alvarez: Electrónica / Andrés Martínez: Guitarra / Chongo Puello: Alegre, Caja / Marco Fajardo: Clarinete / Juan Francisco Duque: Trompeta / Oswald Macías: Trombón / Diego Tunjano: Saxo Barítono

Temas 2,3,7 
Mario Galeano: Guacharaca, melódica / Urian Sarmiento (Curupira): Alegre / Pedro Ojeda (Palanca): Batería, Timbal / Lucho Gaitán (Mojarra Eléctrica): Guitarra / Andrés Martinez (Monareta): Guitarra cortesía Nacional Records / Javier Morales (Jipijam y raspacanilla): Acordeón / Jose Miguel Vega "El Profe" (La 33): Trombón / Jairo Alfonso Barrera (Alerta Kamarada): Saxo Alto / Pablo Araoz (Alerta Kamarada): Bajo Eléctrico / Liliana Saumet (Bomba Estéreo): Voz / Javier Fonseca (Alerta Kamarada): Voz / Kiño (Kmusic): Voz / Shaun Turner: Voz

Temas 1,5,6 compuestos por Mario Galeano Toro; 6 por Mario Galeano y Sonido Martines; 2,3,7 Composiciones colectivas.

Versiones Dub (8-14) mezcladas y producidas por Mad Professor y Joe Ariwa en Ariwa Studios (Londres) 
Versiones limpias (1-7) mezcladas y producidas por Manuel Schaller en el estudio Oidos Contentos (Buenos Aires) 
Mural por Mateo Rivano (pintado en el barrio La Macarena-Bogotá) Foto: Juan Felipe Rubio

Grabado en Bogotá el 10, 11 y 15 de Junio del 2009 en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana. 
Ingeniero de Grabación: Jefferson Rosas. Asistentes de Grabación: Nicolás Ramírez, Juan Diego Galvis y Tomás Arenas.

Agradecimientos: 
Al British Council Colombia, Incubator y Facultad de Artes U. Javeriana. A Martin Giraldo y Radio Cápsula por su apoyo incondicional. A Paula Silva, Mad Professor, Joe Ariwa y Manu Schaller. A Catalina y Luita. A todos los músicos que participaron en estas grabaciones. A Eblis, Pedro y Marco por darle tanto poder al FRENTE. A Mateo Rivano por tan tremendo mural. A Rob Ness, Leonor Convers, Oscar Hernandez, Subcopetón Cero, Lucas Silva, Juane, Sonido Martines, Propongo producciones y Names You Can Trust.

Analógica

Bomba Estereo | Feelin [Live Rec]

Sergent Garcia's iconic single "Yo Soy Salsamuffin" from his 2011 Cumbancha album "Una y Otra Vez" has been deconstructed and re-envisioned by Pachanguito, a Sevilla-based DJ and musician. The collaboration with Sergent Garcia is part of "Remextizo", a new collection of remixes Pachanguito is producing of tracks from leading figures in the Spanish mestizo music scene, including La Troba Kung Fu, D'Callaos, La Pegatina, La Selva Sur and others.


SARGENTO GARCIA - YO SOY SALSAMUFFIN (PACHANGUITO REMIX)

cuando el reggae se encuentra con el bullerengue...

Mash up by sergent garcia / j.holt vs petrona Martinez

1st track off our 1st record.  A cover of the Los Wembler's classic

Sonido Amazonico

¡Sonido Amazonico!

New EP of cover songs!  Artwork by Elliot Tupac!

Cuatro Tigres

The Guns of Brixton

01 Guns of Brixton

Mákina Kandela - Tocatesta

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf  and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music from Lima and the Amazon. The Brooklyn collective is made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who mix up covers of Peruvian Chicha with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by the likes of Satie, Love and Wagner.

Chicha is originally the name of a corn-based liquor favored by the Incas in pre-colombian days. Chicha is also the name of Peru's particular brand of cumbia first made popular in the late 60's by bands such as Los Destellos, Manzanita, Los Mirlos and Juaneco y su Combo.  While loosely inspired by Colombian accordion-driven cumbias, chicha incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban son, and the sounds of surf guitars, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers; an oddly post-modern combination of western psychedelia, Cuban and Colombian rhythms, national melodies and idiosyncratic inventions which were close in spirit to the Congolese rumba of Franco or the pop syncretism of Os Mutantes.

Chicha Libre started out in 2006 as a tribute to Peruvian pioneers but quickly evolved into an original project which MTV has cited as one of the world's preeminent Tropical Psychedelic band. Indeed, while they remain true to their Chicha roots, Chicha Libre's music has taken a definitely more psychedelic turn drawing more and more from its members' alternative background. 

Chicha Libre's sound and approach are completely indebted to the Peruvian bands it originally emulated. Like their mentors, they use surf guitar, organ sounds and latin percussion to play a mixture of borrowed and homegrown sounds. Their sound has become more processed, synth sounds and treated guitars and the borrowings are differ from that of Peruvian precursors   - classical music and pop debris from 3 continents in Chicha Libre's case – but the latin rhythms that form the basis of the music are both as inherent and as foreign to them as they were to the Shipibo Indians who first took up the electric guitar. 

.Chicha Libre has performed around the world, including Turkey, The UK, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil,  Mexico, the US, Canada and, of course, Peru. They have showcased at WOMEX, in Copenhagen, and Globalfest, in NYC. They have played in Los angeles with guitarist Jose Carballo, of Chacalon y la Nueva Crema fame, in Lima with Los Shapis and in Berlin with Ranil, the legendary cumbiero from Iquitos. They have toured with cambodian psych-band Dengue Fever and shared the stage with bands as varied as Brazilian Girls, The Skatalites, Frente Cumbiero and the Orchestre Poly-rythmo de Cotonou.

Chicha Libre's music has been featured on TV shows Weeds and Homeland as well as a Simpsons' 20th anniversary special in which they were asked to play the Simpsons' theme "chicha" style alongside the likes of Red Hot Chili Pepper and ZZ Top. They have also scored a Vaclav Havel play which was performed at Colombia's Miller theater in the author's presence and two Charlie Chaplin films which they performed at NY's prestigious Merkin Hall.  Their two albums, Sonido Amazonico and Canibalismo, are available from Barbès Records in North America, Crammed Disc in Europe and Random Records in South America, as is their EP Cuatro Tigres.