The members of Chico Trujillo started by playing punk and ska, but like some of their brethren in the U.S. who fooled around with polka for kicks, they turned to the old music of their region as a fun marker of local identity. Eventually they got good at playing cumbia, adding high-octane and scattered influences from here and there. Reina de Todas las Fiestas is as brassy as a Balkan Gypsy band, and includes elegant touches of Latin American piano and lots of whooping, hollering and stomping.
