The Rumba Madre releases “Candela”, an invitation to dance and get rid of the toxic people who make life bitter

Burning away the toxic can be danced too: this is the sound of “Candela”

The Rumba Madre presents its new hit, “Candela”. Maybe it's a neighbor, maybe a coworker, maybe your partner or your best friend… We all have someone whose mere presence makes us bitter and passes on totally negative energy.

“Candela” is a symbolic invitation to burn all those people in the fire of oblivion. It's an irreverent, mixed-heritage folk song where Iberian and Latin American tradition blends with sharp humor and a party spirit.

Between popular verses, fiery choruses and lyrics in Spanish and Galician-Portuguese, the song celebrates breaking free from toxic voices and the collective catharsis of a symbolic fire. Ritual rhythm, ancestral mischief and a festive energy that invites you to burn what you don't need and join the common bonfire.

Musically, it opens with Galician pandeiretas playing a muiñeira rhythm, mixed with Puerto Rican bomba barrels and a Basque txalaparta. Then it moves into ska with Galician bagpipes, trikitixa and Puerto Rican percussion, leading to a chorus that combines merengue and Puerto Rican plena on congas, bongos, pandeiretas and other Galician and Boricua percussion. Finally, the song closes with a shift to metal sounds closer to punk, still backed by Galician and Puerto Rican percussion. The message is clear: “Set the fire ablaze, we already have people for the bonfire.”

Produced by Juan de Dios Martín Antón (Gloria Trevi, Amaral, Alejandra Guzmán, La Santa Cecilia, Camarón, Las Cafeteras, etc.), “Candela” features Ezequiel Navas (Raphael, Amaral, La Orquesta Mondragón, etc.) on drums, the Galician singing and percussion ensemble Lilaina (Vetusta Morla, C Tangana, etc.) and Xosé Lois Romero (Baiuca, Vetusta Morla, Aliboria) on percussion, Xabi Arakama (Boikot, etc.) on trikitixa and txalaparta, and Bugy on bagpipes and flutes (Mercedes Peón, etc.), among others.

With this song, The Rumba Madre brings us another track from the new album they'll release in the coming months, titled “Apropiaciones Culturales V. 2”.