By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone

Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 

We venture back into the jungle of Bandcamp's music scene, armed with machetes in the form of headphones, and continue our search for unknown gems that, we hope, will soon stand out in the vastness of Latin America's independent music scene. This time we found 4 record labels, from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela, We believe that at the very least, they will manage to generate curiosity among the audience and, hopefully, pleasure at the novelty. Let's begin:

Lightning Trip – Carol

If one finds out that musicians from such striking Argentine indie projects as Valle de Muñecas, Jaime Sin Tierra and Mi Pequeña Muerte have come together, One can expect that the best of the current alternative sound will come out of there.. What Viaje relámpago presents in this compilation of just two songs It's an effective mix, combining noise pop, shoegaze, and other subgenres of the genre. which, for our personal tastes, brings us enormous joy. Here we have, and we're not exaggerating when we say this, experienced artists who, song after song, work with the weight of their maturity, to rescue the value of rock music in our times. No matter what time of year it is, Carol, The first track on this album is a song that deserves to be timeless.

Igor & The Lunatics – Trioxin + Body Snatchers

This is good noise coming from a stigmatized city, which deserves better luck and better reviews of its local music. In Medellín, the home of this group, there is an alternative scene that knows how to break with the clichés that the municipal bosses themselves want to sell to the whole world. This Colombian city has a much more interesting cultural aspect than what it displays on the surface, and in that sector, among many other sounds, it has a punk space that records great songs, and talks about what happens beyond appearances, shaking the ground in the moments when reality requires it. Igor & the Lunatics is a good example of this.

Os Pampa Haoles – Hike

From Porto Alegre, the Brazilian Pampas, We have received this little instrumental gem, an emotional, nostalgic single, a good combination of the region's folklore and high-quality blues. The Haoles (foreigners or non-natives, in Hawaiian) are so called because they are far from the coast, where his music, theoretically, would find a good setting to be a soundtrack. It seems their forte is imagining music for stories set in wide, deserted spaces, where anything can happen. Meanwhile, they offer us this track that will surely evoke fictional or true stories that deserve to be set to music., looking for a hero like Clint Eastwood from the Southern Cone or something similar. Dreaming is allowed.

The Atomic Café – The Beauty in Bad

This Venezuelan group presents itself as «"a post-apocalyptic blues project, straight out of some B-movie western from the year 3000 on a desert highway, somewhere.". And the truth is that it sounds like many things, many of them unexpected and bizarre. There's everything here: A theremyn that seems to ride the plains of a sweltering film filled with gunfire and seedy bars, Caribbean percussions that intensify the drama that may be being narrated by the inhabitants of a semi-desert town in the midst of solitude, Ultra-reverberated voices that talk about everything and nothing can be understood. Of course, to anyone reading this review without any prior knowledge, it might seem like we're ranting about this material: quite the opposite. Yes, it's a strange album, where a Perez Prado living hallucinogenic experiences, Herb Alpert trafficking notes across borders, and a band of misfits who want to schizophrenically adapt the Caribbean in the middle of Arizona seem to have come together. The result? A unique, unexpected experience that evokes blushing, euphoria, and a great deal of curiosity. A laboratory of resonant textures beyond anything we could have imagined.