Created entirely from improvised sessions, our March Record of the Month is the totally vitalising Una Oportunidad más de Triunfar en la Vida from trio, Los Pirañas.
March is all about shedding off the shackles of Winter and getting ready for the big Spring... spring! Fortunately we didn’t have to search too long and hard this year, as Los Pirañas fell right onto the stereo and after about 18 seconds of this explosive new LP, we were all filled with zeal and an alarming sense of wellbeing.
For almost 30 year Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo) have been putting their eccentric stamp on Latinamerican styles like vallenato, Peruvian chicha, and Colombian champeta, just to name a few.
“As winter begins to shade into spring, Another Chance To Succeed In Life might be just what we all need.” - The Quietus
With a rich and storied history behind them, Una Oportunidad más de Triunfar en la Vida is all about expanding the parameters of experimentalism and pushing the boundaries of instrumental Latin tropical music. The title spells it out, translating as “One more chance to succeed in life.”
“All of the tunes 100% come from improvisation sessions,” says Galeano. “With this album,” Ojeda elaborates, “we went to the studio in the morning every day for a week. Each of us would bring one or two ideas and we would start jamming, experimenting with those ideas. By lunchtime, we had one or two pieces based on those ideas and then, after lunch, we would record them. By the end of the week, we had the eight tracks that are on the record.”
Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida is a truly joyous collection, bubbling through experimentalism with psychedelic infusions, dub wallops and wild riffs. The spontaneous nature of it all makes you feel like you’re right in the room with them, and that is a right trip.
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Recent 'Record of the Month' albums at Drift have included; Darkside, Delivery. White Denim, Kim Deal, W. H. Lung, Kit Sebastian, The Big Club, Orquesta Akokán, O., Mdou Moctar, Gustaf, Adrianne Lenker, William Doyle, Bill Ryder-Jones, Harp, Hotline TNT, Black Pumas, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Georgia, Cory Hanson, Overmono, North Americans, H. Hawkline, Yo La Tengo, The Murder Capital, Goat Girl, Black Country, New Road, Jane Weaver, Dry Cleaning, Squid, White Flowers, Stephen Fretwell, Chubby and the Gang, Low, BADBADNOTGOOD, Damon Albarn, Geese, Silverbacks, Cate Le Bon, Huerco S., Daniel Rossen, Kevin Morby, Vintage Crop, Viagra Boys, The Lounge Society, Jockstrap, Trevor Beales, Aoife Nessa Frances and Sarathy Korwar.
