Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical (Limited Dance Edition)
by Ranil
monsieurjp
monsieurjp
Bliss on every track.
Favorite track: Muévete Mi Amor.
Diego A. Torres
Diego A. Torres
Cumbia punk rock garage psyche awesomeness
Favorite track: Vuelo a Saturno.
David Rankin
David Rankin
Top speed relaxed vibe. Percussion plays by jungle rules. Addictively dancable. Lamentos is on. Las Oldas is fantastic and might have just edged it. Like nothing else I've heard. Top drawer and fun for the ears.
Club Robinson
parroyo13
philmarten
ericmpearce
BTH
sawadhy
Christopher Reilly
the-other-guy
hans-is-a-fan
bs_13
teebeudl
Bart Ramaekers
Daniel Gephart
OG Drip
Tessa Shimizu
ramrod1982
dillpicker
tafurth
maurice
jortysporty
incrush
ou_valemonde
Louis Tremblay
matthieu_b
Ekendall
Daniel Bullon
XatXat
needles
Chris Ketcham
Jeff Barber
Nick Thacker
brek1990
Agawgi Joseph
kelvin_darwin
ketelhuth
DJ caralarm
Borizio de la Vega
otterlenghi
zaooo
Jack Duff
Nilo
Kevin White
futurian
Benny Chiu
river_gazer_1985
unsilentbob
tasteful21
magdater
Alan Kurtz
bainca
smdiby
jun
h20
David Porter
hands
Joshua Garcia
Steve Carson
Christopher Joy
rufdog
cactus
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Vuelo a Saturno
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Las Oladas
03:10
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Lamento
02:59
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La Minga
02:31
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Mi Querido Ucayali
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Licenciado
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Cumbia En Tu Soledad
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Cumbia Sin Nombre
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Rojo Lamento
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Ángel Terrenal
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Marlenita
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La Tuctuructia
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La Danza De Don Lucho
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about
Analog Africa Limited Dance Edition No. 11
If you travel up the Amazon, past the city of Manaus and past the Brasilian/Peruvian border, you will eventually reach the city of Iquitos. It was here that Werner Herzog filmed Fitzcarraldo, the visionary epic of one man’s struggle to drag a ship over a mountain; and it was here, in a city completely cut off from the Peruvian coast, accessible only by air and water, and surrounded by impenetrable forests, that a new, distinctly Amazonian style of Cumbia emerged in the early 1970s.
One of the style’s greatest practitioners is Raúl Llerena Vásquez – known to the world as Ranil – a Peruvian singer, bandleader, record-label entrepreneur and larger-than-life personality who swirled the teeming buzz of the Amazonian jungle, the unstoppable rhythms of Colombian and Ecuatorian dance music, and the psychedelic electricity of guitar-driven rock-and-roll into a knock-out, party-starting concoction. It’s cumbia alright, but you’ve never heard cumbia quite like this before.
Ranil’s music came into being far from Lima, the Peruvian capital, where Cuban-style big band and guitar waltzes vied for popular supremacy. On the distant banks of the Amazon, where Ranil spent the early years of his adulthood working as a schoolteacher, the air was full of the criollo waltzes of his youth, carimbó rhythms from nearby Brasil and crackly broadcasts of cumbia from Colombia picked up on transistor radios.
When Ranil returned to Iquitos after several years teaching in small towns, he assembled a group of musicians and prepared to take the city’s nightlife by storm. His unique blend of galloping rhythms and trebly, reverberant guitar was so successful that he was soon able to take his band to Lima to record their first record at MAG studios, where many of Peru’s most successful psych, rock and salsa bands began their recording careers.
Yet Ranil had no intention of entering into the indentured servitude that comes with signing one’s life away to a record company. Instead he established Produccions Llerena – possibly the first record label founded in the Peruvian Amazon – which allowed him to maintain complete control over the release and distribution of his music. His fearsome negotiation skills and his insistence on organising his own tours turned him into one of the central figures of the Amazonian music scene.
Although his records were popular throughout the region, Ranil never sought his fortune in the capital, preferring to remain in his hometown of Iquitos where, in recent decades, he has concentrated his considerable energies on his radio and television stations, and become involved with local civic politics. Yet his legacy has continued to grow among those fortunate enough to track down copies of his legendary – and legendarily difficult to find – LPs.
Ranil’s extraordinary output has remained one of the best kept secrets among collectors of cumbia and psychedelic Latin sounds. With the release of Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical it is a secret no longer. Assembled by Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb from original LPs sourced from Ranil himself, this fully-licenced compilation presents 14 tracks – many of which have never seen wide release outside the Amazonian region – by a singular artist at the very height of his considerable powers. Prepare yourself for a guitar groove you won’t soon forget.
If you travel up the Amazon, past the city of Manaus and past the Brasilian/Peruvian border, you will eventually reach the city of Iquitos. It was here that Werner Herzog filmed Fitzcarraldo, the visionary epic of one man’s struggle to drag a ship over a mountain; and it was here, in a city completely cut off from the Peruvian coast, accessible only by air and water, and surrounded by impenetrable forests, that a new, distinctly Amazonian style of Cumbia emerged in the early 1970s.
One of the style’s greatest practitioners is Raúl Llerena Vásquez – known to the world as Ranil – a Peruvian singer, bandleader, record-label entrepreneur and larger-than-life personality who swirled the teeming buzz of the Amazonian jungle, the unstoppable rhythms of Colombian and Ecuatorian dance music, and the psychedelic electricity of guitar-driven rock-and-roll into a knock-out, party-starting concoction. It’s cumbia alright, but you’ve never heard cumbia quite like this before.
Ranil’s music came into being far from Lima, the Peruvian capital, where Cuban-style big band and guitar waltzes vied for popular supremacy. On the distant banks of the Amazon, where Ranil spent the early years of his adulthood working as a schoolteacher, the air was full of the criollo waltzes of his youth, carimbó rhythms from nearby Brasil and crackly broadcasts of cumbia from Colombia picked up on transistor radios.
When Ranil returned to Iquitos after several years teaching in small towns, he assembled a group of musicians and prepared to take the city’s nightlife by storm. His unique blend of galloping rhythms and trebly, reverberant guitar was so successful that he was soon able to take his band to Lima to record their first record at MAG studios, where many of Peru’s most successful psych, rock and salsa bands began their recording careers.
Yet Ranil had no intention of entering into the indentured servitude that comes with signing one’s life away to a record company. Instead he established Produccions Llerena – possibly the first record label founded in the Peruvian Amazon – which allowed him to maintain complete control over the release and distribution of his music. His fearsome negotiation skills and his insistence on organising his own tours turned him into one of the central figures of the Amazonian music scene.
Although his records were popular throughout the region, Ranil never sought his fortune in the capital, preferring to remain in his hometown of Iquitos where, in recent decades, he has concentrated his considerable energies on his radio and television stations, and become involved with local civic politics. Yet his legacy has continued to grow among those fortunate enough to track down copies of his legendary – and legendarily difficult to find – LPs.
Ranil’s extraordinary output has remained one of the best kept secrets among collectors of cumbia and psychedelic Latin sounds. With the release of Ranil y su Conjunto Tropical it is a secret no longer. Assembled by Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb from original LPs sourced from Ranil himself, this fully-licenced compilation presents 14 tracks – many of which have never seen wide release outside the Amazonian region – by a singular artist at the very height of his considerable powers. Prepare yourself for a guitar groove you won’t soon forget.
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released March 20, 2020
Special Thanks to:
Mauricio Banda (3volcanes), Coco Maria, Chico Unicornio, Diego Hernandez, Volkan Kaya, Víctor Zela, Michael Pigott and to all the good people working at Calle Jirón Quilca.
Graphic Design: Kathrin Remest
Mastering: Michael Graves (Osiris Studio)
Lacquers: Frank Merritt (The Carvery)
Interview and Biography:
Samy Ben Redjeb and Diego Hernandez
Text Editing:
Jesse Simon
Special Thanks to:
Mauricio Banda (3volcanes), Coco Maria, Chico Unicornio, Diego Hernandez, Volkan Kaya, Víctor Zela, Michael Pigott and to all the good people working at Calle Jirón Quilca.
Graphic Design: Kathrin Remest
Mastering: Michael Graves (Osiris Studio)
Lacquers: Frank Merritt (The Carvery)
Interview and Biography:
Samy Ben Redjeb and Diego Hernandez
Text Editing:
Jesse Simon
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