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These days it's not the Guatemalan countryside, the scenario changed, and Radio Zumbido found himself traveling between Los Angeles, California and Barcelona, while doing the music for a documentary. Lots of ideas, tapes and field recordings gathered on the way, and the result is this new album called: "pequeño transistor de feria" ("little fair transistor") The sights and sounds of a chaotic city like Los Angeles, where Latin culture seeps carefully but grows strongly into America's old Anglo dream, thanks to a denied mass of immigrants that cross the border illegally every day. All of this mixed with the similar vibe that goes out in Barcelona, where Radio Zumbido has been living the last years, The album was recorded with some analog tape machines and instruments, using fewer samplers, in favor of an accidentally more organic sound. Keys, kalimbas, guitars and different percussion were played live. This album is not a follow up to 'Los Ultimos Dias...', since places and views have been changing, it's the natural evolution of a sound that still has the Radio Zumbido trademark. Definitely a more filmic album!
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QS 129CD
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"Some new exotic flavour is about to conquer the world with the first album from Radio Zumbido. A wild travel through South American pop to jazz, dub to furious percussive madness. After years of touring with rockband Bohemia Suburbana (cult band in Guatemala), Juancarlos Barrios started Radio Zumbido in 1999. Here he mixes drum'n'bass with old records, a touch of dub and jazz, loops and shortwave radio programs. Some nice cocktail to refresh your brain cells with exotic flavours and a bit of political background as ice. Guatemalan radio is replete with merengue, tex-mex, evangelist preachers and sensationalist news. By mixing all these elements he conveys an image of everyday social and political life in Latin America. His radio (broadcast) is 'experimental' and in revolt against the onslaught of American-style commercial FM-stations and features stories on Castro's revolution, saved souls, cheap mariachi disco's and so on."
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