FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2023
Contact: kelly@epitaph.com

COMBO CHIMBITA SHARE PART 1: MAKING OF
‘IRÉ’ DOCUMENTARY

WATCH HERE

Photo Credit: Camila Falquez

NEW SUMMER EUROPEAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

“ ‘IRÉ’ is ambitious in its sociopolitical scope, more expansive and lush than anything this idiosyncratic band has done before, it is the first great Latin album of 2022.” - Grammy.com

“Harvesting the power of communal creation in times of chaos, ‘IRÉ’ offers us a cleansing balance between peace and turmoil, and a spiritual template to deal with the impending storms coming our way.” - Bandcamp

“They show the palpable focus of a band intent upon playing a new world into being, if only for a moment.” – Pitchfork

Directed by Dior Rodriguez, Combo Chimbita are sharing Part 1 of a new documentary today that shows us the making of 2022’s ‘IRÉ’, the band’s third album. Filmed in Puerto Rico, watch it HERE.

“Within the saga of Combo Chimbita,” reflects guitarist Niño Lento es Fuego about each of the band’s releases, “El Corredor del Jaguar (2016) finds this eternal being lost outside their realm and returning to Abya Yala (2017) in order to heal and restore peace to the continent. Ahomale (2019) appears as a guiding energy of resistance and now IRÉ (2022) represents those chosen to lead the revolution and materialize the good fortunes foretold in their divinations.”

IRÉ is a cathartic record, channeling the fear, rage and empathy of a world in flames into an urgent spirit of musical dissidence. The album's evocative title is forged upon double-edged meaning: on one hand embracing the divinely inspired blessings and prosperity foretold by our spiritual elders, and on the other a brazen, propulsive affirmation of revolutionary futures in the making. Within this limitless temporal vision, IRÉ finds its rallying spark in convulsive present-day realities by metabolizing the anxieties of systemic racism, capitalist decadence, totalitarian governments and the attempted erasure of queer and trans people.

Combo Chimbita is also announcing new summer European tour dates today, beginning in Spain in July. All upcoming dates listed below.
 

TOUR DATES
7/14 - Zaragoza, Spain @ Slap Festival
7/15 - Arles, France @ Les Suds à Arles
7/18 - La Rotarde, France @ Convivencia
7/21 - Oviedo, Spain @ Tempo Nuevo
7/22 - Madrid, Spain @ Sala Clamores
7/23 - Vigo, Spain @ Secret Location
7/26 - Munich, Germany @ Import-Export
7/27 - Freiburg, Germany @ Ewerk
7/29 - Berlin, Germany @ Durchlueften

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