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9 september 2020

Los Retros, nostalgic funky jazzy after summer sound

 

 

Summer is ending but we are promised a few more weeks of summery hotness and I just found the perfect soundtrack for that. A band called Los Retros which is really only one guy from California, a 20 or 21 year old called Mauri Tapia who plays all the instruments on his albums. He makes what I’d call City Pop, a mellow mix of jazzy funk and Latin music and folk and basically everything that’s nice, drenched in nostalgia.

But while most City Pop is ultra polished, Los Retros sounds like an old tape played on a crummy cassetteplayer. The music sounds exactly like the video above looks. As if you found it in a forgotten box that your parents put in the attic.

Anyway I love it and I purchased two of his EP’s on Bandcamp, Retrospect from 2019 and Everlasting, which was released last June. Here’s an interview with him. He’s on Instagram. He thinks Christ died for us. I think he’s incredibly handsome. (PB)


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