Canibalismo

Chicha Libre devours tropical sounds, backroom beats and analog funk on Canibalismo. An expression of the edgy craving that is fueling their pop rethink around South America. Sonic cannibalism feels to Oliver Conran and company like the easiest way to understand the cutural forces that led them from Brooklyn to rural Peru and to club stages all over South America. Taking their cues from Peruvian chicha, a style that put surf guitar, rainforest psychedelics and Andean flavor to a cumbia beat with open minded exuberance, they have learned from and teamed up with unsung geniuses of the music including Ranil and Los Shapis both featured on Roots of Chicha. Then taken it as a springboard to join the international stream of tropical experimenters from Columbia to Argentina.