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PEACE 45015EP
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Peace & Rhythm presents Close To Me, the new double 7" vinyl EP of four fun fan favorites from Locobeach. The tracks are all danceable cumbias familiar to the band's followers as they are previously released on digital and have all been staples of their live sets over the years. This mini-box set of two hot dancefloor donuts will be great for DJ spins as well as aficionados and collectors, and comes with beautiful artwork courtesy of Selina Josephs. Just before the COVID-19 Pandemic in March of 2020, New York's tropical party band Locobeach began to record a follow up to their freshman LP from 2019, Psychedelic Disco Cumbia. Four songs from the sessions at Manhattan's Cutuprá Studios were almost complete when the world ground to a standstill in March of 2020. When things began to open up a little the following year, the band put the finishing touches on the songs and released the first digital single, the humorous "Isabella," composed and sung by José Luis "Cheo" Pardo (guitar, vocals, production, engineering). The three other tracks needed tweaking, and by early 2024 were ready for digital release as singles, kicking off with a brilliant reinterpretation of The Cure's "Close To Me," sung and arranged by Joshua Douglas Camp (guitar, keyboards, accordion, engineering). Next up was Camp's urgent-sounding tropical film noire instrumental "Idea Desesperada" (Desperate Idea), propelled in part by some hot percussion from Neil "Cutuprá" Ochoa. This was followed by the playful "U.S. Marshall," a sound library theme in search of a cartoon soundtrack, with the title being a play on band bassist Edward Marshall's last name. Close To Me is a snapshot in time; since the four tracks were recorded, original member Fernando Valladares (timbales, drums) left the band to return home to Venezuela, and it was decided to release the quartet of songs together as a vinyl EP instead of making them part of a future full-length album. Peace & Rhythm have been with Locobeach from its origins in 2015 as a live backing group for Joshua Camp's solo studio project, C.A.M.P.O.S., through its ascendence as a self-sustaining party band with its own repertoire and debut album, to the present day. Now Peace & Rhythm are honored to preserve for posterity this transitional suite of cumbia bangers in physical form four years after the world stood still and being "close to me" was just a memory.
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PEACE 015LP
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Locobeach is a NYC-based supergroup comprised of Cheo Pardo (Los Crema Paraíso, Los Amigos Invisibles), Neil Ochoa (Chicha Libre, Los Crema Paraíso), Joshua Camp (Chicha Libre, C.A.M.P.O.S., One Ring Zero), Edward Marshall (La Muy Bestia Pop), and Fernando Valladares (Guaco). This dynamic party band has forged a sound blending cumbia pop and Latin disco with a rock edge that is highly original, and their debut album on Peace & Rhythm is fittingly titled Psychedelic Disco Cumbia. Cheo Pardo explains, "after doing a fair share of live shows and getting the band tight we thought it was time to make a record. We wanted to work it old school; try the tracks live, make them tight, bulletproof and then get in to the studio." The results are diverse, fun, and infectious with classic tropical music meeting psychedelic rock, as well as disco, funk, and Latin house mixed with surf, chicha and spaghetti western influences that build a cohesive Locobeach sound, equaling "dance music for your brain".
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