Alfredo Villar is a local historian and curator of Chicha music and poster art in Lima. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Under cover of darkness, poster artist Monky ...

Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek phrase that they think listeners will understand, and it offends instead. On May 8, freelance reporter Banning Eyre reviewed the new album by a ...

Olivier Conan was doing what he always does when he discovered Peruvian "Chicha" music while vacationing in South America a few years ago: He was looking for new music that might change his life. What ...

Olivier Conan grew up in Paris, but his musical passion is Latin. He plays a small South American guitar, called a cuatro, in a Brooklyn-based band called Chicha Libre. The group started out paying ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Imagine hiking in the Peruvian Andes and finding a group of chicha musicians: ...

Dormant for about 30 years, Peru’s chicha music — a hybrid sound popular in the 1960s and 1970s that blends Andean and cumbia rhythms, among others, with psychedelic effects — is experiencing a global ...

This local supergroup embraces the Peruvian style of cumbia known as chicha, which was named for a fermented drink. Chicha music first came to attention in North America with the release of the ...

First things first: Don Chicharrón does not play Latin jazz. “At least 50 percent of the audience are like, ‘I’ve never heard anything like this’ or ‘The Latin jazz stuff, right?'” says frontman Aldo ...

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