Barbès Brooklyn presents
SECRET PLANET MONTREAL
CHICHA LIBRE | COMBO DAGUERRE | TIPA TIPO | C.A.M.P.O.S
Speical guest: DJ Guillaume Steppin
Friday 11/21
8pm-1am
LA SOTTERENEA (under Salla Rossa)
As part of Mundial Montreal’s OFF, Barbès presents Secret Planet Montreal, a showcase of bands linked to the New York club and label - Barbès.
Barbès and its associated label (Barbès Records) specialize in eclectic music with a strong affinity for hybrid Latin-based sounds—a cosmopolitan vision of a multifaceted culture born of multiple waves of immigration, accidental proximity, and a tribute to the Latin heart of the megapolis — a mix of sounds from Peru, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, France, and the US—with echoes of cumbia, surf, disco, cinematic themes, and musica francesa. Secret Planet began as an annual showcase produced in New York every January with the aim of highlighting new talent.
It is also a new network of music venues in the northeastern United States.
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CHICHA LIBRE (11pm)
"One of the world's preeminent tropical psychedelic bands." MTV
Back in 2008, Chicha Libre launched the first psychedelic cumbia and chicha wave in North America with its debut album Sonido Amazonico (Barbès Records). The album was a tribute to 70’s Peruvian musicians from Lima and the Amazon and their eclectic mix of tropical rhythms and psychedelic sounds. The album followed the release of the compilation The Roots of Chicha (also on Barbès Records) which first documented Peruvian cumbia and chicha outside of Peru.
Sonido Amazonico garnered great reviews - from Pitchfork, NPR, The Village Voice, El Commercio (Peru), Rolling Stone (Argentina) and MTV. With Canibalismo, their follow-up album, Chicha Libre kept forging its own path with a deeper psychedelic sensibility and a freeform approach to cumbia that integrated even more heterogenous elements. The band toured around the world and proved particularly successful in Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
Chicha Libre mostly stopped touring in 2016, playing just a few shows in Mexico and Colombia. They started playing again earlier this year. With shows in Mexico and the US, collaborations with, among others, Son Rompe Pera, Los Mirlos and Italian pop star Jovanotti and KEXP session They are back in Montreal for the first time in 12 years.
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COMBO DAGUERRE (10pm)
“Conan sings in French with the timbre and worldly wit of a latter-day Leonard Cohen”
SONGLINES
Music that sounds like Serge Gainsbourg trying to write his 1960s French pop while living in Colombia, and perhaps being a little high on ayahuasca.- WNYC (NPR)
Combo Daguerre performs all original French language chanson with a mostly Latin crew and a hybrid style informed by boleros, cumbia, 60s rock, French music and 1930s surrealism. It is music filled with joy and darkness, deep grooves and dirges, nostalgia and futurism..
The combo is named after Daguerre, one of the inventors of photography, as well as the name of a street in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, steps away from where bandleader Olivier Conan grew up – a street lovingly documented by Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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TIPA TIPO (9pm)
(Tropical Yacht Rock)
Tipa Tipo blends ’70s soft rock and disco with Latin rhythms to create a modern take on tropical yacht rock en español. Formed in Lima (Peru) by co-producers Adele Fournet and Felipe Wurst, the group now plays live as a trio delivering the power of a larger ensemble through synth bass lines, tight vocal harmonies, and electric guitar/keyboard textures. Their debut album, Cintas (2024), fuses retro pop with Peruvian cumbia, following two acclaimed EPs and a Lincoln Center debut. With airplay on KEXP, WFUV, and NPR’s World Café - along with write ups in Paste, Rolling Stone, and Bandcamp - they are set to release a new LP in 2026.
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C.A.M.P.O.S. (12am)
CAMPOS is producer Joshua Camp’s one-man tropical electronic psych band. Though C.A.M.P.O.S. stands for Cumbias And More Psychedelic Original Sounds, the project also takes its cues from Americana, pop rock, Cuban son and German electronica. Camp has been involved with a number of projects over the years, including Chicha Libre and Locobeach.
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DJ GUILLAUME STEPPIN
The Montreal French DJ is familiar to Canadian audiences for his World Wild soundsystem and hit tireless promotion of dub sessions across the country. For this Secret Planet edition, he will act as selector and will focus on tropical styles from the Indian Ocean including Maloya, sega and more.
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SECRET PLANET MONTREAL
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21 2025
LA SOTTERRENA
4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent Montreal
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