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  • (Soundbite of song "For Malena") WAS: His song, "For Malena," feels like a cross between Latin American Cumbia dance music and a sea shanty, and it has a lyrical sensibility that may owe its roots to Ribot's tent-packing beat poet, Allen Ginsburg.

    String Theory: Reviewing 'Party Intellectuals' 2008

  • Radio Cumbia is San Francisco Bay Area's first station devoted to playing the diverse and rich sounds from Mexico and Central / South America known as Cumbia music, a contemporary rhythmic genre.

    Youth Radio - Top News 2009

  • Radio Cumbia is San Francisco Bay Area's first station devoted to playing the diverse and rich sounds from Mexico and Central / South America known as Cumbia music, a contemporary rhythmic genre.

    Youth Radio - Top News 2009

  • Catholic chapel where locals have convened each night to pray for "Los 33" will be cordoned off so that a band playing "Cumbia" music can perform.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • On the bass-fueled "Cumbia," Lara doubles down at the shady end of the bar, recalling the moody, cinematic journey of his last album,

    unknown title 2009

  • Starting with a zesty track simply called "Cumbia," the album veers all over the alt-Latin landscape, mashing traditional rhythms, gritty rap, jungle noises, and electronica into a crazy Latin mayhem.

    SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture 2009

  • Big bands are also cashing in on the Swine Flu: The Agrupación Cariño has the Influenza Cumbia which has been dubbed in English, for the listening pleasure of many more people.

    Global Voices in English » World Videos: “Swine Flu” Perspectives, Humor and a Grain of Salt. 2009

  • The three versions of "Shacalao," first in a Cumbia fashion by Cumbia Moderna De Soledad and later in the lo-fi grooves of Daktari's "Up Side Down," and finally the most jazzed up cut by Lisandro Meza, stand up to Kuti's version amazingly well.

    Global Beat Fusion: Afrobeat Beyond and Behind Fela 2010

  • The three versions of "Shacalao," first in a Cumbia fashion by Cumbia Moderna De Soledad and later in the lo-fi grooves of Daktari's "Up Side Down," and finally the most jazzed up cut by Lisandro Meza, stand up to Kuti's version amazingly well.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Afrobeat Beyond and Behind Fela 2010

  • Cuban singer Cucu Diamantes will no doubt, captivate the audience with her wildly creative collision of global beats, while Zizek, a weekly dance party in Buenos Aires, blasts the fresh emerging sounds of Reggaeton, Cumbia, Hip-Hop and Dance Hall.

    Modiba: Heineken TransAtlantic Festival Cracks Open The Hybrids 2009

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