{"product_id":"1211272","title":"Various - La Locura De Machuca 1975 - 1980 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Brand New release by Analog Africa. Double LP pressed on 140g virgin vinyl comes with a full color 16-page booklet and CD comes with a full color 32-pages booklet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne night in 1975, a successful tax lawyer named Rafael Machuca had his mind blown in Barranquilla's 'Plaza de los Musicos'. Overnight he went from a high ranking position in the Columbian revenue authority to visionary production guru of the newly formed record label that bore his name, Discos Machuca, and for the next six years he devoted his life to releasing some of the strangest, most experimental Afro Psychedelia Cumbias ever produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Locura de Machuca is the story of one man's bizarre odyssey into Colombia's coastal music underground, and the wild, hypnotic sounds he helped bring up to the surface. The Colombian music industry was thriving in the mid-seventies, but while homegrown bolero and vallenato tunes were doing well on the charts, it was imported African records that were setting crowds on fire at the picos - the sound-systems that fuelled neighbourhood parties - and wherever those records were played there were always a handful of groups who were inspired to plug traditional Cumbia directly into the electric currents coming from across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was these obscure bands, who fused Colombian and African rhythms with the swirling organs and psychedelic guitars of underground rock, that fired Machuca's imagination. While the label made its money releasing popular\\r\u003cbr\u003ehits by legends such as Alejandro Dur\\xe1n and An\\xedbal Vel\\xe1squez, that money was poured back into a unique run of experimental releases by fringe artists such as La Banda Africana, King Somalie, Conjunto Barbacoa, and Abelardo Carbono, one of the godfathers of Champeta Criolla. When Machuca couldn't find groups to realise his particular vision, he simply created them himself. Drawing on a fearsome roster of musicians associated with the label, he assembled bands that lasted only as long as it took to record an album ,and unleashed the results - complete with arrestingly unusual album covers - under a series of different names such as Samba Negra or El Grupo Folcl\\xf3rico. This unorthodox approach led his longtime recording engineer, Eduardo D\\xe1vila, to describes Machuca's productions as the 'B-Movies of Colombian music.'\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003eThe story of Doctor Machuca and his eccentric exploits tells of one of Colombia's most atypical and peculiar record companies; a defining pillar of Afro-Caribbean psychedelia. His productions have come to represent the roots of Champeta and set the pedigree standards for Afro and Coste\\xf1o avant-garde. The seventeen tracks on La Locura de Machuca, harvested from the darkest, strangest corners of the Discos Machuca catalogue, sound like little else recorded before or since. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamba Negra - 'Eberebijara'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Somalie - 'Monkey\\xb4s Dance'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Grupo Folcl\\xf3rico - 'Tamba'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Viajeros Siderales - 'El Campanero'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRio Latino - 'Ayu'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn\\xedbal Vel\\xe1squez - 'La Mazamorra Del Diablo'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Francachela - 'Mosquita Muerta'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Grupo Folcl\\xf3rico - 'Juipiti'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing Somalie - 'Le Mongui'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Grupo Folcl\\xf3rico - 'El Tornillito'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamba Negra - 'Long Life Africa'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Banda Africana - 'Te Clavo La...Mano'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyrian Makenwa - 'El Platano'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Grupo Folcl\\xf3rico - 'Tucutru'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrupo Bola Roja - 'Caracol'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEl Grupo D'Abelard - 'A Otro Perro Con Ese Hueso'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConjunto Barbacoa - 'Wabali'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55131847655809,"sku":"1211272","price":21.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/61_t2xDTyWL._SL1500_37ecfacb-c75e-48fa-9fc8-27764a03c892.jpg?v=1766953654","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1211272","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}