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Yo Bailo Sola

by Acid Coco

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Digital link : ditto.fm/yo-bailo-sola

Acid Coco offer up a female empowering cumbia anthem
on first single from upcoming debut album.

On “Yo Bailo Sola” there is no mistaking the cumbia beat, but Acid Coco break with the dogma of tradition (a recurring
theme in their work), the song’s female protagonist telling her would-be dance partner to leave her be, she wants to dance
this cumbia alone.

Breaking the same traditions that also inform their work is all par for the course for Acid Coco, a Colombian duo whose
debut album Mucho Gusto will be released later this year. Recorded across two charged sessions in Geneva, it’s an album that finds emotional and physical catharsis through evoking the music and memories of a Colombia where they no longerreside, but which looms large across their work.

Each song is a vignette of Colombian life: a romance set to a champeta rhythm; recollections of falling asleep to the sound
of a tambor beat as family members party across the room; songs about tongue-in-cheek discoteca loves but also breakups;and reality always present, with the spectre of violence, that so many Colombians lived (and continue to live) through, never far away.

“Yo Bailo Sola” takes inspiration from cumbia from the 1950s. Music that speaks of spirituality and solemnity but that is
filled with mischief. As a Gibson riff and Colombian tiple propel the song forwards we hear Andrea break the conventions of cumbia. Often a couples dance, she tells her admirer: “yo bailo sola” (“I dance alone”).

“Cumbia is something we grew up with, it has always accompanied us, it is part of who we are!” (“Este ritmo es algo con loque crecimos, nos acompaña desde siempre, es parte de lo que somos!), say the duo, whose album also includes champeta,son montuno, reggaeton andtecnomerengue, as well as their own tropical punk hybrids.

lyrics

Sentado en la arena
y al va y ven de la mar
una linda morena se menea al pasar

y al ritmo de la cumbia
yo la invito a bailar
y ella a mi me sonrie
sin siquiera mirar

luego se gira y me dice
si tu quieres gozar
esta cumbia al bailar
deja que yo te enseñe
que no hay que acosar
la cumbia es la reina
y al soltarme veras
que si yo bailo sola
todos vamo' a gozar

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released July 17, 2020
Mastering at The Carvery Studios
Design and art Direction Daria Mechkat
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Colombian duo Acid Coco is influenced by the tambores of La Caderona, the sweat tears dropping from the ceiling in Juanchito, rhythms of cumbia, porro, bullerengue and champeta. It’s a journey up and down, down and up through the beautiful colors of music! ... more

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