Terror/Cactus Present Their Trippy Northwest Take on Cumbia Digital

The Seattle band delivers a new album and stages a party at Timbre Room.by Greg ScruggsSeattle is almost 7,000 miles from Buenos Aires, but our city is finding a niche for the hypnotically irresistible sound of cumbia. For the uninitiated, cumbia is a pan–Latin American folkloric genre that originated in Colombia. It has a trademark guitar style and an unmistakable steady beat from the güiro, a shaker-like percussion instrument. Like a slower cousin of salsa, it's also a popular partn