Rizomagic

Tropical Futurism from Bogotá, Colombia. "A rhizome is an underground plant stem; recent scientific investigation has shown it to be a secret communications pathway for entire ecosystems. A cool concept, then, for a cool Colombian duo, whose debut sprouts and bursts and secretes all manner of rhythms and rootsy concoctions over its nine tracks. Partners Diego Manrique, director of avant-garde cumbia orchestra Niño Pueblo, and Edgar Marún, director of ethno-Afrobeat ensemble Dorado Kandua, are already faces in Bogotá’s thriving alternative psychedelic scene. Their tropical futurism is tricky to decode but I hear ethnic chants, EDM pulses, computer games, noirish film music, sounds from nature, some very twisted cumbia, all of it so mashed and meshed that it creates something fresh." - Songlines (UK)