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Started in 2006, the Brooklyn band is made up of musicians from France, Mexico, Venezuela and the US who have been at the forefront of a global movement to revalorize Chicha - psychedelic cumbia from Peru. Like its mentors, Chicha Libre uses surf guitar, organ sounds and Latin percussion to play a mixture of borrowed and homegrown sounds – but its music is a freeform reinvention, not an exercise in nostalgia. The cumbia beats 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.
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Chicha Libre - Popcorn Andino (Peru, USA)
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Jambú is a plant widely used in Amazonian and Paraense cuisine... Jambú is an exhilarating, cinematic ride into the beauty and heart of what makes Pará's little corner of the Amazon tick. The hip swaying, frantic percussion and big band brass of the mixture of carimbó with siriá, the mystical melodies of Amazonian drums, the hypnotizing cadence of the choirs, and the deep, musical reverence to Afro-Brazilian religions, provided the soundtrack for sweltering nights in the [Belém] city's club district.
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Os Muiraquitãns - A Misturada (Brazil)
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Choro or chôro is an instrumental Brazilian musical style that probably originated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s as a fusion of popular European music (polka, waltz) and the music of African slaves.
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Izaías e Seus Chorões - Pedacinho do Céu (Waldir Azevedo) (Brazil)