Blending African guitar stylings with Brazilian and Afro-Colombian rhythms, Gachupín draw on electric funk era Miles Davis and funk to create an instrumental hybrid that is danceable but still an interesting listen.

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WORLD: World Beat, JAZZ: World Fusion



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Gachupín is the new band of former Cordero/Bee and Flower band mates Lynn Wright (...And The Wiremen) and Jon Petrow (The Cloud Room), bassist Tony Maimone (John Langford, Pere Ubu, Book of Knots) and drummer Chris Michael (Coba, Folklore Urbano). Started as a studio side project to explore the Latin and African elements of Cordero's more rhythmic tunes, the band now includes Brian Dewan (Raymond Scott Orchestrette, Flaming Fire) on keyboards, Frank London(Klezmatics) on trumpet, Scott Harrell (Folklore Urbano) on trumpet, John Martin on baritone sax, Sam Sadigursky on tenor sax, percussionist Sergio Borrero and future Colombian percussion legend El Yoky on Alegre.
Blending African guitar stylings with Brazilian and Afro-Colombian rhythms, they draw on electric funk era Miles Davis and the more groove-oriented
elements of the post-everything music world to create an instrumental hybrid that is danceable but still an interesting listen for the lead-footed, cross-armed brothers and sisters among us.