Cholo by El Polen

With Cholo (recorded in 1972) El Polen and rock fusion began their history in Peru. Six songs emerge: The Flower, White Pants Little Cholo, Quena Landscapes, Valicha, Sitting Dream, Tondero and Hurdy Gurdy and Poliphon sequences. The name of the album comes from the film that director Bernardo Batievski shot to honor the life of soccer player Hugo “Cholo” Sotil. “We were the only group that auditioned for the film. Batievski immediately after hearing us said: ‘this is the mestizo music I need’. Part of the repertoire we had in those times was included in the record, these were songs we had already played in many concerts and that had matured for more than a year”, Juan Luis remembers, 48 years after recording Cholo.

This Peruvian group was created in 1969 in Lima, Peru. After assorted and premature musical experiences (from their early adolescence), Juan Luis and Raul Pereira found their own musical path when they founded El Polen. In Peru, the Pereira brothers are honestly considered, legends of Peruvian rock and we must thank their deep artistic inclination, psychedelic experiences, community life.