BSP continues its global-minded curation with a performance by Peru’s legendary psychedelic cumbia band Los Wembler’s de Iquitos on Friday, September 20. In 2007, the Brooklyn label Barbès Records released a 17-song compilation of a then-ignored genre of psychedelic cumbia from Peru: a blend of psych/rock, surf, Afro-Latin rhythms and indigenous melodies. That album reintroduced the world to chicha music, a sound previously confined to the Amazon and the poorer neighborhoods of Lima. Los Wembler’s, who formed in 1968 in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, were responsible for some of the first hits of the psychedelic cumbia genre and have enjoyed this resurgence in international interest. BSP welcomes them in the middle of their Visión del Ayahuasca Tour. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
Los Wembler’s de Iquitos
Friday, Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m.
$15/$12
BSP
323 Wall St., Kingston
http://bspkingston.com
