Very Be Careful / Chicha Libre

These Colombian-born, Los Angeles-based, self-professed “booty shakers” have successfully imported the vintage traditional vallenato music from the Colombian fishing villages and farming community into their music. The music fuses urgent, danceable accordion rhythms with lyrics that speak of love, barroom brawls and salt-of-the-earth heroes.

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel.