7-inch vinyl packed in premium printed fold-over picture cover featuring artwork by Victor Melendez & Francisco Morales. Expected ship date around 10/9/20.
Includes unlimited streaming of Split Single No. 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
It’s back-to-back hits with the new Names You Can Trust split single series, the first of which features two up-and-coming acts in the blossoming Latin music scene of the Pacific Northwest. From Seattle via Argentina and Miami is Terror/Cactus, a futuristic electronic cumbia project from musician Martín Selasco. Selasco’s machine-forward audio/visual performances combine a mixture of bugged out digital folklore, live percussion and the omnipresent sounds inspired by the canon of South American chicha concoctions. That balance is on display in the group’s debut vinyl release “Churro vs Crow.” A field recording of a Mexico City street scene playfully intermingles with the track’s heavy production, an innocuous battle between a crow and a churro vendor breathes a little outdoor analog into an avant digital landscape.
On the other side of the spectrum, down south in neighboring Oregon, lies Portland’s Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, an 11-piece ensemble formed by a crew of talented musicians from the lush local offerings of the Willamette Valley. The band’s big sound is an explosive expression of their own roots, representing the heyday of tropical music that graced stages for decades in Central and South America. Clarinet, brass, electric guitars and that familiar percussive pulse are all alive on their NYCT debut “Regreso.” Imagine a return to the cross-pollinated sounds of the psychedelic ‘70s, an echo from the Andes, the Amazon, through the central isthmus and back to the present, only this time landing in the City of Roses.
credits
from Split Single No. 1,
released October 2, 2020
Recorded and Mixed by Johann Wagner at Pinewave Studios, Oregon.
Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London.
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical:
Papi Fimbres
Edward Bubl
Carlos Segovia
Shana Lindbeck
Andy Manla
Paul Bubl
Lebahan Borgerson
Sam Schauer
Anton Ramirez
Ryan Wiggans
Victor Paul Nash
During the first UK lockdown in 2020, this album took me all the way to the Peruvian Amazon. This album's a great introduction to one of the main players of psychedelic cumbia, Amazon style. Each track's full of sunshine j j headington
Utterly joyous music from Cape Verde in 1984, “Já Bô Corre D’Mim” combines highlife guitars with giddy tropical rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 8, 2021