Analog Africa honors Polibio Mayorga’s andean cumbia

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The Scrapbook Ecuatoriana: the parallel universe of Polibio Mayorga is one of the cornerstones that raised the artist to the top of andean cumbia, this musical genre mixing futuristic sounds and traditional Andean melodies.

Cumbia, formerly the name of a dance and the music associated with it, finds its origins on the northern coast of Colombia which borders the Caribbean Sea. It combines African influences – notably percussion, Indian – notably flutes, and finally those of the Spanish – arrangement of texts, guitar then later…