The Jam Jar Presents: Los Wembler’s de Iquitos
Schedule
Tue Nov 04 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
The Jam Jar Bristol | Bristol, EN
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¡𝗖𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇ó𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮! 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮💥💥 Los Wembler’s, five brothers who formed a band in 1968 in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, Peru, were one of the main architects of the Cumbia Amazónica movement - a 1970s psychedelic cocktail that came to be known as Chicha. 💥💥
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗝𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝗟𝗼𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗼𝘀
+ 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝟳.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 - 𝟭𝟬𝗽𝗺
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗝𝗮𝗿, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹
Los Wembler’s became widely popular in the Peruvian Amazon and for a dozen years criss-crossed the region, with forays into neighbouring Brazil and Colombia. In the mid-1980s, however, touring mostly came to a stop, and the band remained in Iquitos, playing mostly parties and local functions.
Though chicha originated in the 1970s, its particular blend of psych rock, surf, Afro-Latin rhythms and indigenous melodies proved to be particularly appealing to 21st-century audiences.
To many, especially in South America and Mexico, it came to be seen as the missing link between rock and tropical Latin music and was a key ingredient in the cumbia revival that has swept the Americas in the past decade.
With this renewed global interest, Los Wembler’s made a return to the world stage, and in 2019 released their latest album ‘Vision del Ayahuasca’, which was written in Iquitos, where the band still lives, but recorded in Lyon, France, while the band was on its second European tour. With only three days in the studio and a hand injury suffered by guitarist Alberto Sanchez, the session was fueled with a sense of urgency that only added to the raw energy the band has channeled for the past 50 years. Recording at BacktoMono, an all analog studio, Los Wemblers re-created the conditions they knew at the beginning of their career – beyond mere nostalgia, the process gave the session some profound historical grounding. The result is an album that goes back to the origins of the band, oscillating between their love of tropical dance music and loud guitar rock rooted in late 60’s psychedelia. 💥💥
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The Jam Jar Bristol, 4a The Old Malt House, Little Ann Street, Bristol, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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