Perfect Sound Forever: Peruvian chicha

Juaneco y Su Combo In the Amazonian borderlands, Spanish and Portuguese meld together into an improvised language known locally as Portuñol. Border crossings are as nonchalant as an afternoon stroll. I remember taking a taxi ride in 2009 from Pucallpa in Peru, to Rio Branco in Brazil. It was a twelve-hour drive, through dense jungle scenery that I mostly remember in radio static.