Amaru Tribe - Between Two Worlds / Entre Dos Mundos LP

Amaru Tribe’s new album Between Two Worlds / Entre Dos Mundos is likely an allusion to the Melbourne-based trio’s hybrid identities: Oscar Jimenez and Katherine Gailer were born in Colombia and Cristian Saavedra hails from Chile. Both the name of the group—amaru is a highly revered, mythical two-headed serpent in Incan mythology—and its iconography reference indigenous culture, though the sounds are also thoroughly modern. Identifying as a “folktronic act,” they’ve been known to call their music “cumbia oceanica,” and judging from their music, which is often danceable but also quite spacious, it’s a pretty apt descriptor.

‘Entre Dos Mundos is an excellent addition to the thriving experimental electronic genre that has blossomed in Latin America in recent years. Given that Latin music, and particularly cumbia, has been popular in Australia for decades, Amaru Tribe’s cumbia-infused folktronica is just the latest evolution in a long history of musical hybridity on the continent.’ Album of the Day - Bandcamp 2022