Galaxia Tropical: 180gram Virgin Vinyl LP

Label: Analog Africa
Release Date: 6th February

If you ain't into Peruvian Cumbia Amazonica and I'm gonna forgive you if you haven't got a wing of your record shelving devoted to it, consider this your gateway record. As always those expert musical archivist at Analog Africa present a stellar compilation from one of global musical history's local legends and this time they turn spotlight back to Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical. The songs have a tangy melody, percussion heavy grooves, which twist between hypnotic passages to wild workouts and of course yer boy's vocals have an oozing Southern American charisma as he croons and swings through song. 

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 the most vivid document of that fearless,
free-spirited, often psychedelic ensemble.

Galaxia Tropical / Bahia / Inka / Tres Cienaguero / Con Ranil Por Supuesto (Interludio 1) / Gitanita / Albores De Mi Selva / Cumbia Del Torero / Llora Venus / Serenata (Interludio 2) / Pueblo / Mambo En Espana / Lindo Atardecer / Andalucia