Bogotá’s Mario Galeano is a bass player, a record collector, a music scholar and a composer. His band is called Frente Cumbiero, and together they stand at the heart of the current renaissance of Cumbia music. Unlike the electronic sounds of Mexican Sonidera and Argentinian Cumbia Villera that first hit global soundsystems, the new Colombian approach uses the orchestra as a starting point and preserves a real sense of the Afro-Caribean and its vinyl culture. - Interviews Magazine
