I asked Sascha about how he first got into Los Siquicos. I was first introduced to Los Siquicos in 2007, when Sascha Roth (curator and organizer of the venerable WORM venue in Rotterdam) began describing their sound to me, and turning me on to their MySpace page. – Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls / Sublime Frequencies)
And wherever they choose to navigate from here, you will feel an urge to follow, but you will never catch them.” They eliminate all the menus, re-configure your eyesight, heat the skins on your eardrums, and dance atop that big rhinoceros in your living room. “Los Siquicos are the most relevant modern-day link to the South American legacies of tropicalia, cumbia, chicha, and psychedelia. And just when you’re expecting the curtains to be drawn on originality, a band of Psychics descend… In an increasingly globalized cluster-fuck of a planet, cultural difference, inspiration and intrigue are something more valuable than any tangible commodity. It’s the major reason I started re-tuning my own musical and cultural interests so many years ago, and began searching for them in different parts of the world. It’s a post-post-post-post world, and many music lovers – let down – have found themselves either celebrating derivative throwbacks or trying to forge excitement from redundancy and rehash – wading the shallow pools of nostalgia. The ways we listen to, purchase, and believe in music have shifted significantly over the past decade or two.
Strong allegations, but it’s not often you come across a band who dispel the notion that invention and sincerity in music has had its day.
Los Siquicos Litoraleños (The Psychics of el Litoral) aren’t running from their musical heritage, they are staring straight at it – spinning it around, refracting it, and transmuting it into something that is probably one of the most genuine things that has happened to folk, rock, experimental or psychedelic music in many years. Inhabitants of this region are known as Litoraleños. The group hails from the town of Curuzú Cuatiá, in Corrientes, northeastern Argentina – in the area known as el Litoral. They make shamanic cumbia folklore with an energy that sprouts from whatever enters their bloodstream.” “…These guys grew from Cucumelo spores on the humid underside of cow patties in Corrientes, Argentina. Mind-melting tropical psych-rock, pitched-down cumbias soaked in dub brine, swirling solar instrumentals, and surrealist shamanic lyrics laid across guitars, drums, tapes and electronics – bringing together multi-fidelity electric and acoustic psychic sound-forms from the greater depths of sound and surprise. Here is the contemporary group you keep hoping exist, but can never find. Their music is a unique triumph of homegrown rural psychedelia, standing alone on the edge of an unchartered vanguard. " Sonido Chipadelico" is the debut international release from Los Siquicos, and the collection represents some of the greatest moments from the group’s dense and damaged repertoire. This year, my label Sham Palace, together with Annihaya Records in Beirut, were finally able to issue the joint production we had discussed for some time – a full-length album from Argentinian underground mavericks, Los Siquicos Litoraleños.
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“… Here come Los Siquicos Litoraleños in their powered flying saucer low-fi technology, full of gauchos, aliens, cows and armadillo carts, like the ark of Noah and a lysergic apocalypse.” –
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