{"id":42463,"date":"2018-02-28T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sonido-gallo-negro-back-with-its-mystical-cumbia-ishtar\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:56","slug":"sonido-gallo-negro-back-with-its-mystical-cumbia-ishtar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sonido-gallo-negro-back-with-its-mystical-cumbia-ishtar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonido Gallo Negro, Back With its Mystical &#8220;Cumbia Ishtar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12054 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico-759x543.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico-1010x722.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico-661x473.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sonido-Gallo-Negro-Mambo-Cosmico-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>After\u00a0four years of absence, Sonido Gallo Negro is about to release its next album, an exotic version of frenzied sounds enriched from all over the continent. Demonstration with their first title &#8220;Cumbia Ishtar&#8221;.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonido Gallo Negro (SND) is a magnificent 9-piece instrumental combo from eastern Mexico City that channels Peruvian cumbia from the 1960s and various styles such as Amazonian cumbia, huayno and boogaloo.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ensemble is mainly formed by Gabriel Lopez, Israel Martinez, Enrique Casasola, Julian Perez and designer Jorge Alderete.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their compositions, rich in electric guitars, flourish a great diversity of tropical and joyful sounds thanks to the Farfisa organ, the theremin, the flute and of course a fluid Latin percussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Combining their psychedelic music with Dr Alderete&#8217;s exceptional visuals, realized in real time during their performances, SND transports us into their mystical and retro universe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HE31QwrHELI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Listen to this\u00a0track inside the Glitterbeat playlist on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/47ov5i5iShon5tZQgxrDt4?si=XYShXLF8SWeWsoj1uQ39Rw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a> or <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/fr\/playlist\/2990714206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their song &#8220;Cumbia Ishtar&#8221; is dedicated to Ishtar, the enigmatic Babylonian deity of fertility, love, war and sex, which guards the secret of the beginning of humanity and all music.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is inspired by a famous Mexican Cumbia &#8220;Cumbia Arabe&#8221; by composer Francisco Nicol\u00e1s Bobadilla. The band then merged it with a rhythm close to the &#8220;Calypso&#8221;, synthesizers and choruses.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This song illustrate the group\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ability <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to create a very particular hypnotic mambo, and their mixed influences from Latin America, Middle East and Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">See you on April 04 to discover the 11 tracks of Sonido Gallo Negro&#8217;s upcoming album <em><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/IDOL.lnk.to\/Mambo_Cosmico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mambo Cosmico<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Read Next:\u00a0<\/em> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/glitterbeat-origins-and-philosophy-of-a-versatile-label\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glitterbeat: Origins and philosophy of a versatile label<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0four years of absence, Sonido Gallo Negro is about to release its next album, an exotic version of frenzied sounds enriched from all over the continent. Demonstration with their first title &#8220;Cumbia Ishtar&#8221;. 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