Rizomagic - Marimbitiaos (2023)

Tropical Futurism from Bogotá, Colombia.

"A rhizome is an underground plant stem; recent scientific investigation has shown it to be a secret communications pathway for entire ecosystems. A cool concept, then, for a cool Colombian duo, whose debut sprouts and bursts and secretes all manner of rhythms and rootsy concoctions over its nine tracks. Partners Diego Manrique, director of avant-garde cumbia orchestra Niño Pueblo, and Edgar Marún, director of ethno-Afrobeat ensemble Dorado Kandua, are already faces in Bogotá’s thriving alternative psychedelic scene. Their tropical futurism is tricky to decode but I hear ethnic chants, EDM pulses, computer games, noirish film music, sounds from nature, some very twisted cumbia, all of it so mashed and meshed that it creates something fresh." - Songlines (UK)

Tracklist:
1.01 - Rizomagic - Konimba (5:16)
1.02 - Rizomagic - Ñeño (3:53)
1.03 - Rizomagic - Aterrao (4:10)
1.04 - Rizomagic - Más Allá (3:34)
1.05 - Rizomagic - Mangwisa (4:58)
1.06 - Rizomagic - Jobita (4:35)
1.07 - Rizomagic - Chuantica (4:34)
1.08 - Rizomagic - El Perdón (3:38)
1.09 - Rizomagic - Ayoyloí (4:26)