Mexican Institute of Sound’s Camilo Lara and Meridian Brothers’ Eblis Alvarez are two musicians who know how to take traditions and twist them up in modern ways, ending up with music that joyfully lives in a time and place of its own. A collaboration between the two looks on paper to be something of a dream and on record – 2026’s Ruido Tovar – it comes true in thrilling fashion.
The record is a tribute to – and deconstruction – of the Mexican cumbia stylings of legendary singer and band leader Rigo Tovar. In the 1970’s, he was the first to bring modern touches like Moog synths and electric guitars to the style and he became an outsized figure on the Mexican music scene. Lara and Alvarez pay homage to him the only way they know how, by turning…

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