Photo Credit: Piero F Giunti
PANAMERICA LP OUT VIA COSMICA ARTISTS
LARGELY INSTRUMENTAL BLEND OF ELECTRIC GUITAR & NORTH AMERICAN ROCK HERITAGE WITH CLASSICAL GUITAR-BASED BOLERO, CUMBIA, TEJANO, RANCHERA & RHUMBA INFLUENCES FROM LATIN AMERICA
+ HINTS OF HAWAIIAN SURF AND COUNTRY MUSIC
Twanguero has released an escapist and subtly nostalgic seventh album, Panamerica out via Cosmica Artists. Today, the outfit shares “Panamerica” and a gorgeous video shot using a drone in California’s Mojave Desert.
Twanguero is Spanish-born, Los Angeles-based exploratory guitarist Diego Garcia and his band. “Pupilas” keeps with Garcia’s habit of singing just one song on each Twanguero album. “It’s beautiful, like a ‘cumbia reposada’ – ‘cumbia chill’ or ‘cumbia Western’,” he said.
Enjoy/Share “Pupilas” on YouTube + Listen on DSPs + Listen to Panamerica
“Pupilas” follows the release of Rubén Fuentes’ classic “La Bikina” and “Fue tanto el amor,” which personifies Garcia’s cinematic approach to his famously evocative songwriting.
The 10-track Panamerica is a largely instrumental, vibrant, and virtuoso coming together of North American electric guitar and rock ‘n roll heritage with classical guitar-based bolero, cumbia, Tejano, ranchera and rhumba influences from Latin America, alongside hints of Hawaiian, surf, and country music. Filtering stylishly throwback vibes through the prism of Garcia’s very here-and-now creative curiosity, it’s a percussion-adorned album of what he calls “new nostalgia.”
“For me, Panamerica is transporting. It moves the mind to another place, instantly,” notes Garcia. “It’s open to the listener, but I want to take you away from where you are, at least for the three minutes of a song or the thirty minutes of the album.”
The four-piece Twanguero – completed by percussion, drums, and bass – will perform album release shows in the Atlanta area at Riverside Park on September 28 and Zebulon in Los Angeles on November 6.
Panamerica tracklisting:
1 – Danza de Acolita
2 – La Bikina
3 – Rancho del Olvido (with Mireya Ramos)
4 – Reguetwang
5 – Me Gustas Mucho
6 – Rumba #2
7 – Pupilas (with Alih Jey)
8 – Fue tanto el amor
9 – La Cumbia sin nombre
10 – Exodus
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