Los Chicos Altos – Toro Mata by UrbanWorld Records

Los Chicos Altos debut EP, “Pa’lante EP”, on UrbanWorld Records is something they describe as a Trans-Atlantic, Euro-merican blend, uniquely incorporating Afro-Peruvian music, Cumbia and Chillout. The title track, “Pa’lante” uses African percussion & polyrhythms originally brought to the Americas with the black slaves and combines it with Flamenco from the Spanish colonizers, while “Un Día Soleado” is a Peruvian Cumbia. “Zamba Malató, Landó” is a chill tune for sunny days in the hammock and “Toro Mata” is a bonus bootleg track which is not part of the original EP, but is available as a free download.

http://soundcloud.com/urbanworldrec/los-chicos-altos-toro-mata

The lyrics for “Pa’lante” and “Zamba Malató, Landó” are from Nicomedes Santa Cruz an important person in Afro-Peruvian music, who popularized it in the 1950s. Los Chicos Altos get help from the talented artists Jaime Negro and Claudia Naranjo Pantoja (members of the South-American group Paloq’sea,) Jose Rodriguez, Dani Txarnegö and Pau Baiges (musicians from Spain.) The first track, ¨Pa’lante” get the remix treatment from three different camps; Thykier, with his dirty version, Empresarios with a cumbia and finally, Andyloop & Toti Arimany get funky with it. “Un Día Soleado” gets flipped in a moombahton style by Sweden’s Akai One.

UrbanWorld Records 2011
www.urbanworld.nu
Release/catalogue number: UW015EP