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New York Post, CD Review >>
Pour the pisca sours and pop in “The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbia from Peru.” This vibrant and trippy collection of Andean cumbias or chichas - 17 in all - seems like a romp in a dusty outpost of any Peruvian town. The genre was inspired by the traditional music of Colombia but when they hit Peru, these cumbias transformed into something unique.
The sounds are layered with Andean folktales, melodies and instruments - pentatonic scales, synthesizers, organs, “wah wah” pedals and surf guitars - and the result is like a scorching chupe de camarones. The sound is at once gritty and sophisticated.
Chicha is named after a corn-based liquor believed to be the drink of choice of the Incas. But when it spread to Lima, it took hold of urban dwellers and continued its transformation with bits of rock and Cuban guajiras.
Olivier Conan, a French musician and co-owner of Barbès (a Park Slope bar that plays about any kind of music in world), was so bewitched by these sounds on a visit to Peru, he tracked down the masters and brought this collection up north.
JAVIER L. ORELLANA and SANDRA GUZMAN 09/12/07 >> go there
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