New York's La Banda Chuska Plays Cumbia-Surf, In-Studio

New York group La Banda Chuska combines the psychedelic takes on the sounds of 1970’s Peru and Colombia and brings them to the beach party resulting in an irresistible cumbia-surf mixture. They play in-studio. 

In Peru and Colombia in the early 70s, young musicians who’d grown up with South American folk sounds began picking up electric guitars and playing their own psychedelic take on the rhythms and styles of the region. Fifty years later and one hemisphere to the north, the New York group called La Banda Chuska takes those sounds and adds elements of 60s surf guitar and 80s dance rock to create a fun, international sort of party music.  La Banda Chuska plays some songs from their 2025 album Basic Bichos.

Set list: 1. Ratas y Mapaches 2. Barba Azul 3. La Selva Me Salvó