Cumbia Sounds, Unearthed Deep Down in the Amazon Jungle

"Ranil is a larger-than-life personality who swirled the teeming buzz of the Amazonian jungle, the unstoppable rhythms of Colombian and Ecuadorian dance music, and the psychedelic electricity of guitar-driven rock-and-roll into a knock-out, party-starting concoction."

—Album liner notes

"I like to showcase the rhythms that came to fruition in other parts of the globe and which are the result of a clash of cultures between African and American Indians, often also mixing that up with European beats. Africans arriving in the Americas was like throwing a match into a barrel of gunpowder."

—Samy Ben Redjeb (founder of Analog Africa)