Description
Five years after the first volume, Analog Africa returns with a second
compilation highlighting Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical, one of the greatest
practitioners of Peruvian Cumbia Amazonica - 'Galaxia Tropical' features 14
songs with a guitar groove you won't forget, underlying Ranil's extraordinary
output as singer, bandleader, record-label entrepreneur and larger-than-life
personality
On April 18, 2019, fresh off the plane in Iquitos, I jumped into the taxi of an elderly
gentleman and explained that I had come to the Peruvian Amazon to find Ranil. I know
where he lives," he replied, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And before
I knew it, I was no longer searching for the man -- I was standing right in front of him.
Ranil and I hit it off immediately and ended up spending a month working together on
this project.
Born in 1935 as Jorge Raul Llerena Vasquez, Ranil's story begins in the Peruvian
Amazon, where the sounds of the forest mixed with stray radio waves from Colombia,
Brazil and Ecuador. He quickly understood that breaking into Peru's music industry --
especially as an artist from "the end of the world" -- would be no easy path. He
decided to start his own label, Producciones Llerena, something unheard of in this
part of the Peruvian Amazon.
With a rotating cast of brilliant musicians by his side, Ranil crafted a sound that locals
lovingly called "llullampeo" -- imaginative, unpredictable, and fabulously unrestrained.
His percussionists wove grooves that have not resurfaced in the region since, and the
14 songs presented here remain some of
Tracklisting
1. Galaxia Tropical
2. Bahia
3. Inka
4. Tres Cienaguero
5. Con Ranil Por Supuesto (Interludio 1)
6. Gitanita
7. Albores De Mi Selva
8. Cumbia Del Torero
9. Llora Venus
10. Serenata (Interludio 2)
11. Pueblo
12. Mambo En Espana
13. Lindo Atardecer
14. Andalucia
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