Music Review: Barro y Fauna

This article is adapted from AQ's print issue on transparency and the 2018 elections

The power trio (guitar/bass/drums), pioneered by Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 1960s, has been around in Latin America for at least four decades. Bands such as Manal and Pappo’s Blues in the 1970s, Soda Stereo and Os Paralamas do Sucesso in the 1980s, and Divididos in the 1990s have given the rock ’n’ roll lineup uninterrupted pride of place on the region’s stages and musical charts.

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