Combo Chimbita
“The quartet, fronted by lead singer Carolina Oliveros, puts on a transcendent, incredibly fun show. Oliveros, energetic and unstoppable, alternately belts and chants, displaying a full range from priestess to hype woman.” - Daily Beast
“From Bogotá to Brooklyn, this adventurous four-piece has mapped a tropical futurist’s dream of spacy electronics, new-wave cumbia and good old-fashioned garage rock.” - Relix
“Lead vocalist Carolina Oliveros is an otherworldly presence over Afro Colombian rhythms meted out by guitar, bass and genre crossing drumming.” – NPR
"Brooklyn’s Combo Chimbita have signed to ANTI- and will release their new album on the label in 2019. The band rose up through the scene at Brooklyn club Barbes, played Elsewhere’s opening night and practice what they call Tropical Futurism — “the idea that ancestral knowledge can represent a magical and substantial future outside the boundaries of white, Western ideals” — inspired by Sun Ra Arkestra, psych rock, and more." - Brooklyn Vegan
Through her folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia, and a dash of enigmatic punk, Ahomale by Combo Chimbita catapults the sacred knowledge of our forebears into the future. Their second studio album and Anti- Records debut sees the visionary quartet drawing from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment to unearth the awareness of Ahomale, the album’s cosmic muse. Comprised of Carolina Oliveros’ mesmeric contralto, illuminating storytelling and fierce guacaracha rhythms, Prince of Queens’ hypnotic synth stabs and grooving bass lines, Niño Lento’s imaginative guitar licks, and Dilemastronauta’s powerful drumming, the lure and lore of Combo Chimbita comes into existence.
Rooted in Colombia and based in New York, Combo Chimbita lives in the future. After playing together for years, these first-generation New Yorkers began experimenting with different traditional musical styles during their late night residencies at Barbès in Brooklyn. Exploring the connections between visual identity and improvisational long-form trips, Combo Chimbita came together as a four-piece band after they started encouraging more vocals by Carolina Oliveros, who tightens the rhythm with her guacharaca.
With the help of producer Daniel Schlett (The War on Drugs, Modest Mouse), the group’s rootsy experimental alchemy and metal strangeness take centerfold.
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RIYL: Lido Pimienta, La Misa Negra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Y La Bamba, Helado Negro, Grupo Fantasma, Antibalas
TRY: #1, 2, 4, 9, 10
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