Shika Shika presents Forastero, the new full length album from Terror/Cactus that explores themes of identity, memory, perception, and mysticism. Forastero, which translates to “outsider” or “foreigner”, is a reflection on the experiences of immigrants, troubadours, and displaced people - bringing up feelings of isolation, solitude, and introspection, while simultaneously evoking the freedom of roaming in nature and dreaming of a world that is beyond borders. Featuring collaborations with artists such as Pahua, Rumbo Tumba, Barrio Lindo, and Corina Lawrence, Forastero encompasses a musical landscape filled with electronic folk, dark cumbia, and psychedelic beats.
The first single from Forastero features a collaboration with Mexican artist, Pahua. “Donde Estás Tú” blends Terror/Cactus’s dark bone-rattling beats with the dreamlike vocals of Paulina Sotomayor to transport the listener into a cavernous dimension filled with magic.
The focus track for the album, titled “Sombra”, is a dark psychedelic cumbia with vibrato guitars, deep 808’s, and glitched-out beats. Accompanied by a music video shot in a lush PNW forest, it is inspired by the song “Vidala para mi Sombra” by Argentine folk legend, Atahualpa Yupanqui. The music video uses modern dance to explore the idea of a shadow as a metaphor for the dark and mysterious parts of our being that follow us throughout life.
genuinely wide range of fab tunes, from west African to south American and beyond. Contemporary sound - tidy driven numbers like dracula are fab as is la nina grande (which is like MIA meets 90s dave clarke in the RED 2/3 era) - there are also fun hi life style tunes and those layered marimba mid rangers. Mama Clo is quite the showstopper thou. Wow! Ollie Moore
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