Gregorio Quiros - Huaynos Floridos (2026) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Shika Shika presents Huaynos Floridos, the third album by Argentine artist, researcher, and educator Gregorio Quirós. In this new work, Quirós delves into huayno as an expanding field, exploring its possibilities through an instrumentation that overflows the boundaries of the Andes. Colombian chonta marimbas, Mexican jaranas, Argentine percussion and bass drums, along with other Latin American instruments, shape a sonic palette that travels the continent from north to south, proposing a renewed, bold, and contemporary timbre.

The album combines reinterpretations of traditional repertoire with original compositions, forming a detailed and carefully crafted body of work that approaches Latin American folklore as a continuous territory. In this vision, the continent’s musical geography is understood as a connected network, traversed by a common axis: the Andes mountain range.

Recorded over several years in his own workspace, Huaynos Floridos was co-produced with producers IDOSÔIDOS (Gustavo Minian) and Oídos Contentos (Manuel Schaller), and features the participation of numerous collaborators who expand the project’s scope. The result is an album that brings together multiple identities and traditions in a single sonic direction, affirming an integrative perspective on Latin American music.

*KARALLANTA* is the first pulse of HUAYNOS FLORIDOS.
This single is a ritual piece that pays tribute to the rhythmic and vocal identities of the Andes. In this preview, tradition guides a narrative that unfolds toward a climactic zapateo, where the rhythm accelerates to reach a state of collective trance.

The presence of the chonta marimba—an atypical instrument within the genre’s traditional instrumentation—shifts huayno toward a dimension of territorial integration. This dialogue between wood and Andean rhythm expands the piece’s map into new sonic geographies.

Karallanta is a plant native to the Andean region (Bolivia, Peru, and northern Argentina). It represents resilience, as it grows in arid, rocky terrains where other species do not survive, remaining strong despite extreme conditions.

Tracklist:
01 Karallanta
02 Sale el sol
03 Plantita de Alelí
04 Polvo
05 El cóndor pasa
06 Nubes
07 Huaynito de alfalfa
08 La luma
09 Luz, euforia, alegría


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