![]() ![]() They make shamanic cumbia folklore with an energy that sprouts from whatever enters their bloodstream.” “…These guys grew from Cucumelo spores on the humid underside of cow patties in Corrientes, Argentina. Mind-melting tropical psych-rock, pitched-down cumbias soaked in dub brine, swirling solar instrumentals, and surrealist shamanic lyrics laid across guitars, drums, tapes and electronics – bringing together multi-fidelity electric and acoustic psychic sound-forms from the greater depths of sound and surprise. Here is the contemporary group you keep hoping exist, but can never find. Their music is a unique triumph of homegrown rural psychedelia, standing alone on the edge of an unchartered vanguard. " Sonido Chipadelico" is the debut international release from Los Siquicos, and the collection represents some of the greatest moments from the group’s dense and damaged repertoire. ![]() This year, my label Sham Palace, together with Annihaya Records in Beirut, were finally able to issue the joint production we had discussed for some time – a full-length album from Argentinian underground mavericks, Los Siquicos Litoraleños. “… Here come Los Siquicos Litoraleños in their powered flying saucer low-fi technology, full of gauchos, aliens, cows and armadillo carts, like the ark of Noah and a lysergic apocalypse.” –
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