Chico Trujillo, Chile's wildly popular nine-piece cumbia battalion, mixes classic cumbia with hints of rock and ska and a general air of revelry and irreverence. Seeking to expand the borders of their endless fiesta, Chico Trujillo has launched a US invasion - with a US-debut cd, Chico de Oro on Barbes Records (a retrospective of their first decade in the trenches) and a very successful tour last month. While they were here we captured Chile's merry pranksters of cumbia for an exuberant live session. - Rob W / WFMU
Rob Weisberg