Alfredo Villar is a local historian and curator of Chicha music and poster art in Lima. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Under cover of darkness, poster artist Monky ...

Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek phrase that they think listeners will understand, and it offends instead. On May 8, freelance reporter Banning Eyre reviewed the new album by a ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Listen 0:00 Olivier Conan grew up in ...

Olivier Conan was doing what he always does when he discovered Peruvian "Chicha" music while vacationing in South America a few years ago: He was looking for new music that might change his life. What ...

ATX’s Money Chicha, which features members of Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, two bands our readers should be familiar with, plays an update on the style known as Chicha. Since 1986, the SA Current has ...

Olivier Conan is a Frenchman from Brooklyn (as well as an avid record collector and label owner) who was trolling tiny markets in Lima, Peru, hoping to discover something new. When he stumbled upon a ...

Dormant for about 30 years, Peru’s chicha music — a hybrid sound popular in the 1960s and 1970s that blends Andean and cumbia rhythms, among others, with psychedelic effects — is experiencing a global ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Imagine hiking in the Peruvian Andes and finding a group of chicha musicians: ...

The International Accordion Festival has never been this psychedelic: Chicha Libre, a Brooklyn-based band of musicians from France, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, will debut in San Antonio on Sunday ...

First things first: Don Chicharrón does not play Latin jazz. “At least 50 percent of the audience are like, ‘I’ve never heard anything like this’ or ‘The Latin jazz stuff, right?'” says frontman Aldo ...

Conan plays an instrument called a cuatro with Chicha Libre, a band that pays tribute to the classic Peruvian Chicha groups of 40 years ago. Olivier Conan Brings Chicha Music to Brooklyn Olivier Conan ...