New release on Rebel Up Records: Nikanor – Bajo El Sol. Album release weekend with shows in Gent & Brussels

Nikanor – Bajo El Sol (RUP015)
releases 15 january
on vinyl, CD & digital
Chicha cumbia, cumbia Amazonica and psychedelic rock from Peru via Brussels.

Nikanor is a Peruvian band based in Brussels, fronted by vocalist Marx Sánchez Sosa and guitarist Angel Loaiza. Together they play Chicha cumbia, a unique genre based on Andean melodies blended with tropical percussion and psychedelic rock.

The first Chicha cumbia bands appeared in Peru during the mid-1960’s and was very popular until the mid-1980’s. In recent years, ‘la Chicha’ is experiencing a renaissance, with bands and audiences from around the world (re)discovering its power and sound. Taking the big names and bands from the Chicha cumbia era as a reference, Nikanor started in 2016 as a cover band, to play the most remarkable and strongest songs to gain recognition in the Belgian scene. Since then the band has evolved into a group that writes their own music and songs.

Nikanor’s songs are a mix of rock, Chicha cumbia, tropical cumbia and Andean folk. Songs like ‘La Bajada del Kuraka’, with its Afro-Peruvian rhythms, or ‘Cóndor Blanco’, with its Quenas (Andean panpipes), make this album a trip in sound into Peru. Listening to the songs you feel like flying through landscapes and rhythms from all around the country. All of this in a rock structured format that invites to dancing and partying in a live setting.

LISTEN / ORDER vinyl/ CD via Bandcamp!

Check their new videoclip here! > > >

Nikanor & Rebel Up Records will present the album with a little tour in Belgium on friday 17 & sunday 19 january, with dj support & afterparty by Rebel Up & friends.

17.01 @ Trefpunt, Gent, 20h30
19.01 @ Labokube, Brussels 19h

Sat 16 Feb > Rebel Up Sebcat @ Arumbo album release party, Trefpunt, Gent

This saturday evening / night, Rebel Up SebCat @ Arumbo album release party in Trefpunt, Gent.

A night of rumba Catalana, flamenco, mestizo rock, cumbia, ska, oempapa, balkan and more!

Catalonia / Belgium based band Arumbo will launch their first full album ‘Camino de Vuelta’
Support by Shaman Festival (ska/oempapa/balkan & more)

AFTERPARTY until 5h with DJ´s Gudari, Feria Bomba & SebCat (Rebel Up!)
world, mestizo, bass, cumbia, balkan, ska, roots & more

!Come early because their are only 100 entrances. No reservations!
DOORS: 19h – 5am, concerts between 20h30 – 23h
Entrance 10€ + Full album Arumbo included
Organized in collaboration with bookings agency Number One Entertainment & Trefpunt.

All info > FB Event

@ Trefpunt
Walter De Buckplein 5
Gent