No thread for the mysterious genre of music known as CHICHA???

Chicha Libre, the Brooklyn band inspired by this stuff, are playing for free from 6 to 7 US east coast time at the Kennedy Center in DC wed. January 21. The gig is also being shown live on the K. Ctr. Millennium stage website and will be archived. I may go.

Was busy parenting and missed the show. Will have to check out the archived video.

love love love love love love this disc:

http://wrbcradio.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/rootschichacumbia.jpeg

and so, apparently, a volume 2 is forthcoming:

http://i1.soundcloud.com/artworks-000002173693-r48jov-crop.jpg?8855b9

very excited to get this.

"co-sign" as I believe the kids say

(rad covers too)

tip-o-the-hat to ALTERED ZONES, the world's greatest "international collective of music bloggers . . . highlight(ing) one of the more overlooked narratives in contemporary music -- the proliferation of home-recorded sounds, small-scale releases, and pockets of underground activity all over the world," for alerting me to the forthcoming disc.

vol. 2 on emusic today

love that 1st one, thanks for tipping me to this!

Los Wembler's are in DC this week and I have seen them for free twice. Love their meld of chicha, cumbia and surf. They are doing a Brooklyn gig July 9 in addition to the DC ones.

These guys are my favorite. Masstropicas put out a six track thing of theirs a few years ago and I've sought out some more tracks on mysterious websites since then - they play a very romantic take on this stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_mj5RSVHqw