TROPICAL VORTEX presents: CHICHA LIBRE (10pm)
Mon, 8 Sep 2025
10:00 - 11:55 PM (EDT)
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This is the 10pm show.
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CHICHA LIBRE, Back at Barbès (one night only...)
Watch their KEXP session
Chicha Libre, North America's psychedelic cumbia pioneers return to Barbès where it all started with a Monday night residency that lasted from 2006 to 2012
Back in 2008, Chicha Libre launched the first psychedelic cumbia and chicha wave in North America with its debut album Sonido Amazonico (Barbès Records), named after an iconic Los Wembler's de Iquitios tune. The album was a tribute to 70’s Peruvian musicians from Lima and the Amazon and their eclectic mix of tropical rhythms and psychedelic sounds. The album followed the release of the compilation The Roots of Chicha (also on Barbès Records) which first documented Peruvian cumbia and chicha outside of Peru.
For the 8pm show, go here
CHICHA LIBRE, Back at Barbès (one night only...)
Watch their KEXP session
Chicha Libre, North America's psychedelic cumbia pioneers return to Barbès where it all started with a Monday night residency that lasted from 2006 to 2012
Back in 2008, Chicha Libre launched the first psychedelic cumbia and chicha wave in North America with its debut album Sonido Amazonico (Barbès Records), named after an iconic Los Wembler's de Iquitios tune. The album was a tribute to 70’s Peruvian musicians from Lima and the Amazon and their eclectic mix of tropical rhythms and psychedelic sounds. The album followed the release of the compilation The Roots of Chicha (also on Barbès Records) which first documented Peruvian cumbia and chicha outside of Peru.
Chicha Libre mostly stopped touring in 2016, playing just a few shows in Mexico and Colombia. Eager to start playing again, they released the EPTequila y Aguardiente in the summer of 2024 – featuring collaborations with their friends Son Rompe Pera, from Mexico, and La Sonora Mazuren, from Colombia. They followed up with a West Coast tour with the obligatory stop at Seattle’s KEXP and shows along the coast including two memorable performances with Los Mirlos in Los Angeles and in San Diego.
Syncretic and cosmopolitan, Chicha Libre's new lineup includes musicians from Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, France and the US and incorporates their various backgrounds into the new arrangements. The music is more adventurous than ever, with hard edge percussion providing the polyrhythms and a healthy dose of improvisation courtesy of keyboardist Joshua Camp and NY veteran guitarist Stephen Ulrich (of Big Lazy and This American Life).
Syncretic and cosmopolitan, Chicha Libre's new lineup includes musicians from Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, France and the US and incorporates their various backgrounds into the new arrangements. The music is more adventurous than ever, with hard edge percussion providing the polyrhythms and a healthy dose of improvisation courtesy of keyboardist Joshua Camp and NY veteran guitarist Stephen Ulrich (of Big Lazy and This American Life).
With resident DJ's SONIDO CHICHADELICO and ADRIAN IS HUNGRY and Special Guests
TROPICAL VORTEX is Barbès long-running series showcasing all manners of tropical styles from Latinolandia with live band and DJs playing cumbia, chicha, guaguanco, mambo, plena, Sanjuanitos and other styles of vintage or not so vintage styles.
Past artists include Combo Chimbita, Chicha Libre, Los Cumpleaños, Bulla en el Barrio, Yotoco, La Manga.
As well as : Son Rompe Pera, Chico Trujillo, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Ceferina Banquez, Son Palenque, La Sonora Mazuren, Meridian Brothers, Frente Cumbiero, Paito y los Gaiteros de Punta Brava, , Yeison Landero, Hit La Rosa, La Cuneta Son Machin, La Perla, Banda Chuska and many more
$20
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