Emerging from the same scene in Tucson, Arizona that produced Giant Sand and Calexico, Orkesta Mendoza started in 2009 as a one-off tribute project to Cuban mambo king Pérez Prado, which proved to be too much fun to stop. Their latest album, Curandero, fuses ranchera, cumbia, son and boogaloo with a rock’n’roll heart in a style they call ‘indie mambo.’ 

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