Novalima's new frontier with Afro-Peruvian music

The claim to fame of Novalima, the eight-piece Peruvian band that has just released its fifth album, "Planetario," is to have brought modern electronica to traditional Afro-Peruvian music, and vice versa. But when Novalima began in 2001, at first a studio-only project of four former punk and reggae musicians, all from Lima but from middle-class families, and none of them actually Afro-Peruvian, the limited aim was to make one or two albums of electronic grooves in the eclectic, loungey style tha