Bareto - Vacilando con Ayahuasca: Evil cumbia for your virgin ears

Bareto's Cumbia - Cool little piece of Artwork, taken from Polen Record's Bandcamp

Witness! Another tropical band providing engaging tropical sounds. Today's second pill comes courtesy of Bareto -which is Colombian slang for "Joint"- and that alone should give you an idea of the overall feel of these enthralling sounds.

Cumbia has a fairly complex background, with years and years of mixing african percussion, indigenous instruments and spanish couplets. What we have before us is an aptly named (the song title roughly translates to Having fun with ayahuasca) modern mix of the aforementioned elements (minus the vocals) with jazzy, bluesy guitar licks, abient keys and soothing winds. Perfect for dancing, dancing while stoned, dancing in the shower, dancing out drinking, chilling in the terrace of your country house (someone else's would do too), feeling the warm breeze of a nice summer evening... 

It's just a great song, use it as you please. Check it out, as usual, right here, right now, in the embedden track below. Also, leave us a comment. How would you use it? I'm curious! 

Stay tuned for more Roll up the big ol' bareto action!

Thee Commons - Wampiro: An exciting take on an exotic style

Thee Commons' Loteria Tribal - Taken from their Bandcamp

Aaaaaaaaaah! Cumbia! For today's second pill, we'll be checking out the intriguing sounds of this LA Band, and their take on one of Latin America's most wide spread rhythms. 

Thee Commons label the music they play as Psychedelic Cumbia Punk, and I couldn't agree more. It's as mystic as cumbia, as fun as punk and as experiential as psychedelic music. This particular song features prominent bass and drums, excitingly put together in a tropical, ear-catching, colourful way. Reverberated guitars are something that feels like home to me, and when delivered in this dub-ish kinda way, it sure as hell makes me go "Uh!". This lovely pill doesn't have a lot of singing, but little as it has, it's delivered in a great, very entertaining way and just at the right moment. 

I gotta say, this sort of fondness for latin mojo driven music has been growing on me a lot recently, so I just had to go back and rediscover a whole bunch of bands that I dismissed in the past. Luckily, that wasn't the case with this one, specially with this song; actually, it came at the right moment, right when my mind was open enough to get really excited about it. Talk about a serious deal, right?

But enough of this pseudo astral talk, let this be a lesson to yourself. Times change, and so do people.
Thread lightly, and while you can by all means stand by what you believe in, try not to be so categorical with your taste, it's always changing and -here comes an ugly word- evolving. 

Check out this little piece of my own personal experience with evolution in the embedded track below. Shoot us a comment if you've got som'ing to say!

Bomba Estéreo – El Alma y el Cuerpo

Copyright license: CC BY-SA 4.0

New and exciting sounds abound on the internet, they’re just there, lurking and waiting for someone to reach out and grab them by the, uh… it doesn’t matter by what, what matters is that you’re able to grab them and make them yours, free or for a very small fee. This isn’t really a new finding for me, but it certainly is a newfound love.

Bomba Estéreo hail from Colombia, as you can probably tell by their Cumbia-driven psicodelia, just as they hit you with vibey keys, syncopated guitars and percussion, and gorgeous autochthonous singing  by Li Saumet, the band’s fiery frontwoman, which has a  very distinctive delivery aching to Colombia’s native coastal rhythms. What’s amazing is that you don’t really have to know what she’s singing about; she speaks right into your body and soul and sets your mind’s controls for the heart of the misty and humid tropical jungle.

Oh, the heat.

Catch their amazingly stunning KEXP performance of this song right here. Also, find them on Facebook and Bandcamp (it’s only USD 2 a song!)