Check out Insurgentes Carismáticos, new album from Romperayo

In 'Insurgentes Carismáticos', Pedro Ojeda and his band once again deliver an electrifying fusion of genres, weaving together traditional Colombian cumbia with experimental and psychedelic elements.

The album offers infinite loops of multicultural sampling, drawing from the rhythmic and melodic history of Colombian music while incorporating sounds from across Latin America and Africa. With influences from 60s and 70s vinyl culture, Romperayo revives and reimagines these sounds for a new generation, all while maintaining an air of joyful resistance.

Pedro Ojeda says about the record:

"Insurgentes Carismáticos, like my previous LPs with Romperayo, represents a deep exploration of samplers, synthesizers, percussion, electric guitars, accordions, and soundscapes—all deeply influenced by the sounds of Latin American and African vinyl from the 60s and 70s. These elements come together to build on traditional, popular, and tropical Colombian music.

"Musically, my aim was to maintain a kind of popular language, ensuring everything stayed free of pomp or grandiosity. This journey was about doing things in a modest way, avoiding grand rhetoric and pretension, and instead focusing on music and sound as subtle, delicate expressions—easily spoiled if mishandled.

"Each song on this album was, at one point, a blank canvas on which I painted a caricature. The album consists of 10 caricatures—not paintings, but caricatures. And if this album were a film, it would definitely be animated and undeniably colorful."