Without any doubt, we are experiencing a new wave of Peruvian music. New releases just in the last few months have been showing us eclectic and surprising sounds that emerge from the dialogue between local and transnational. Glocal, like the academy likes to say.

Lima-based trio Tourista are one of the most important independent bands in Latin America right now.

Dengue Dengue Dengue seem to live in a dream. They don’t live in reality. They get releases on Billboard, they will have their first Boiler Room Session, and it´s like they are having just another gig every day… crazy and amazing.

Cleverly steering between cumbia and reggae, the unique collective Olaya Sound System originated in the Lima district of Chorrillos at the end of the previous decade and has been constantly gaining more and more attention since then.

Among all that’s currently going on in Perú, some new music is drawing everyone’s attention: Gala Briê. This marvelous duo formed by singer Gabriela Gastelumendi and producer Alejandro León could be Peru’s next best thing, if it is not already.