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Five years after the first volume, Analog Africa returns with a second compilation highlighting Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical, one of the greatest practitioners of Peruvian Cumbia Amazonica - 'Galaxia Tropical' features 14 songs with a guitar groove you won't forget, underlying Ranil's extraordinary output as singer, bandleader, record-label entrepreneur and larger-than-life personality.

Born in 1935 as Jorge Raul Llerena Vasquez, Ranil's story begins in the Peruvian Amazon, where the sounds of the forest mixed with stray radio waves from Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. He quickly understood that breaking into Peru's music industry -- especially as an artist from "the end of the world" -- would be no easy path. He decided to start his own label, Producciones Llerena, something unheard of in this part of the Peruvian Amazon.

With a rotating cast of brilliant musicians by his side, Ranil crafted a sound that locals lovingly called "llullampeo" -- imaginative, unpredictable, and fabulously unrestrained. His percussionists wove grooves that have not resurfaced in the region since, and the 14 songs presented here remain some of the most vivid document of that fearless, free-spirited, often psychedelic ensemble.

TRACK LISTING

1. Galaxia Tropical
2. Bahia
3. Inka
4. Tres Cienaguero
5. Con Ranil Por Supuesto (Interludio 1)
6. Gitanita
7. Albores De Mi Selva
8. Cumbia Del Torero
9. Llora Venus
10. Serenata (Interludio 2)
11. Pueblo
12. Mambo En Espana
13. Lindo Atardecer
14. Andalucia