The Argentine band that opened the doors of reggae in the country is celebrating its silver anniversary this year, and for the celebrations, they launched this Pericos & Friends, an enviable compilation in which they revert their great songs together with those artists who influenced them as a band.
The album has 12 songs, and brings the collaboration of Ali campbell (the famous singer of UB40), the mythical Gregory Issacs, the heirs of Bob Marley, The Wailers, Toots Hibbert, from Toots And The Maytals, Mykal rose (Black Uhuru), The Skatalites. On the latin side, The parrots they summoned Black City, Guillermo Boneto (of The CAFRES), Juan Manuel Casañ (of the Spanish Social Security), Herbert Viana (of The Paralamas of Success), the Chileans Gondwana, and the charruas of You will not like it.
Juanchi Baleirón, singer and leader of the group after Bahiano's departure, summed up his feeling for this album: “We had the luxury of inviting our reggae referents and also great friends to participate in them, who filled them with their own magic. Pericos And Friends is an album where more than 50 musicians participate, with songs in different languages and recorded in 9 countries, with reggae and the passion for music as the only common threads. "