By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
Editor's note: We have decided to give greater prominence to the publications Made on Bandcamp, Our favorite digital music platform (everyone can listen to albums hosted on its server without a subscription), where self-managed projects offer their songs without unnecessary intermediaries and at the prices set by the artists themselves. Furthermore, breaking with the famous algorithm, Each week, we will dedicate ourselves to finding little Latin American musical gems that we want our visitors to be able to listen to. and enjoy without so much hassle.
The Yakets – Rock and roll is back
We see a photo of the trio who recorded these six songs, and they can't all be over twenty years old, yet they tell us their music was made in Costa Rica in 1966. It's a happy nostalgia—fiction, as a friend of the house would say. Classic rock and roll (we'll use their own terms)., Fueled by fierce punk, made with a desire to tear the house down with guitar riffs and wild dancing. It's not music that's going to break stylistic molds, but it's so well-made that it deserves to be turned up and danced to without any shame. In the imagination of these artists, 57 years have passed since they created their tunes., They sound great on our stereos nowadays.
The Coolmoods – Moonwalkin'
Now let's move to Buenos Aires, but let's continue to breathe in the nostalgic air of the sixties. Let's listen to a Buenos Aires band that goes back to the origins of reggae and rocksteady to record 5 instrumental songs. that sound like naive psychedelia and the scent of a beach full of colorful bikinis and teased hair. Lihuel Gentelesca's work on the keyboards is exceptional; he manages to immerse us in the precise atmosphere.Thus making us think about the arrival of Jamaican migration to English ports sixty years ago, the soft cannabis perfumes of those days and the launch of the first Dr. Martens Airwair boots, which were so popular at parties at that time.
Wild Cat – Cumbia fumanchera
And now Colombia, where a group of young musicians with a rebellious attitude have decided, in their own way, to return to the country's acoustic folk music, adding lyrics with social and political content. An example of this is Gato 'e Monte, who, on this occasion, has decided to turn to cumbia to release two versions of the same song, one at "normal" speed and the other slowed down, paying homage to what is done with this genre in Mexico. The result is appealing., because they are new generations appropriating ancestral traditions and turning them into part of their current language. It's worth keeping an eye on them, to see what surprises they have in store for them in the future.
