Galaxia Tropical (New LP + Download) *PREORDER*

* Preorder item, releases early February 2026

Label: Analog Africa

Over the years, Ranil released more than a dozen LPs, though often in beautiful disorder. Mismatched covers, wrong labels, missing song titles, chaotic management — Producciones Llerena was not meant to survive the test of time. By the 1980s, as Amazonian cumbia faded and new trends took over, Ranil reinvented himself as a radio pioneer, founding Radio Llerena in the heart of Belén’s market. Its loudspeakers filled the neighbourhood with cumbia, commentary, and community news, turning him into one of Iquitos’s best-known voices and setting him on the path to politics. Outraged by Amazonian injustices, Ranil ran several times for Mayor of Belén with the Popular Action party, but he never won an election.