Iquitos

Los Wembler's est le groupe légendaire de Iquitos, la Capitale de l'Amazonie au Pérou. Les cinq frères Sanchez qui composent le groupe sont des pionniers de la Cumbia amazonienne qui ont joué un rôle essentiel dans le mouvement Chicha des années 1970. Le groupe, qui a écrit et enregistré des grands classiques comme "Sonido Amazonico" et "La danza del Petrolero" n'ont vraiment jamais céssé de jouer au Pérou depuis toutes ces années mais c'est par l'initiative de quelques producteurs et par un mouvement Cumbia de plus en plus présent dans le monde que Los Wembler's attisent les plus curieux et franchit les frontières apres plus de 20 ans d'absence en decidant de revenir sur le devant de la scène.

‘Psychedelic’ is a buzzword being used a lot these days, especially to sell evermore obscure treasures dug up from the world’s once lost, now rediscovered, international musical archives. In some instances calling the music ‘psych’ is a bit of a stretch – just because it’s weird or dressed up in imported trappings from the same era does not make it necessarily so – and at other times it seems to be merely cashing in on a trend. Happily this is not generally the case when applied to cumbia, because this venerable genre of Colombian music with an international reach truly did go through a psychedelic period.

Unreported World exposes the callous and illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon jungle. Animal trafficking is a global trade that's seen an unprecedented spike in recent years, threatening dozens of species with extinction. Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Will West travel to the remote city of Iquitos, where they use undercover filming to reveal the shocking scale and the brazen nature of backstreet dealers and market traders selling protected wildlife for bush meat and the international trade.

Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital city of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios. With the arrival of electricity, a new generation of young musicians started plugging in their guitars and trading in their accordions for synthesizers: Amazonian cumbia was born.