Los Pirañas

A veritable supergroup consisting of Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo), Los Pirañas, the Colombian Avant-Latin experimentalists, return with their most formidable and forward-looking album yet.

Improvised live in the studio, with each member contributing ideas and interpretive strategies, the result is a masterclass in spontaneous, collective composition.

Daring, imaginative, eclectic and always deeply groovy, Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida is an infectious trip into the dark, pulsating heart of Bogota’s thrilling underground music scene.

The album title translates as One more chance to succeed in life. Not that they need it. The trio of guitarist Eblis Alvarez, bassist Mario Galeano and drummer Pedro Ojeda has been successfully carving out a wildly idiosyncratic musical world since the release of their debut album in 2010, pushing the boundaries of instrumental Latin tropical music with bold infusions of psychedelia, dub, minimalism and more.

But their journey started a long time before that. All three attended the same high school and have been playing together for three decades, since they were around 15 years old. “We started with punk and heavy metal,” Ojeda recalls. “Then we were very interested in Colombian tropical music and traditional music from Colombia and Latin America, and that led us to focus on African music. It’s been a long road.”