Stream: Churro Triste, ‘Esta Mentira’

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David Pacheco, aka Churro Triste (Photo by @mujerpigeon)

L.A. native David Pacheco, the guitarist, vocalist and one half of the highly esteemed psychedelic cumbia punk power duo Tropa Magica, is opening up a solo shop in Albuquerque, N.M. What’s he selling? A delicious, carbolicious, fried-dough pastry snack, drenched in a sweet cumbia glaze, powdered with a nose tingling, psychedelicious cinnamon-sugar mix; in other words, Pacheco is venturing into a melancholic solo side project that he is naming Churro Triste.

Churro Triste is a fully baked musical pastry, ready to entice the senses with the alluring aroma of its first official release, an original cumbia treat titled, “Esta Mentira.” Translation: “This Lie.”

Inspired by the inability to go outside during the quarantine/pandemic and the beautiful pink glow of Albuquerque’s Sandia Mountains during sundown, Pacheco wistfully sings the woes of a vampire who lives burdened by his love for the sun. “Esta Mentira” is sung completely in Spanish to the tune of soft, spacey and hazy psychedelic-cumbia rhythms adhering to a desolate vibe yet offering hypnotic melodies that can and will cause the body to dance along to every beat.

Recently moving to Albuquerque without his brother Rene — the other half of Tropa Magic — David Pacheco was left to fend for himself, musically. But don’t worry, if you’re a huge Tropa Magica fan this isn’t the end for the band. Pacheco says this is just another way to work on the music while being miles apart during a pandemic.

“Churro Triste is a way for me to continue writing songs and demos and releasing them without having the full band around.” Pacheco says, “I play all the instruments and sing the backup vocals on this track. Some of the songs will end up as Tropa songs (with my brother Rene playing drums and bass) and some will be on my solo album.”

Churro Triste was first introduced in April with the release of a digital EP containing eight cover songs from the likes of the Misfits, the Beatles and Bill Withers, among others. The covers were all performed on his acoustic guitar and completely in Spanish. In June, he released two more covers dedicated to his father, Arturo Pacheco, via David Pacheco’s personal YouTube.

A full-length album is in the works and expected to be released in late spring 2021.

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