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Sample Track 1:
"Sonido Amazonico" from Los Mirlos
Sample Track 2:
"Linda Nena" from Juaneco y Su Combo
Sample Track 3:
"Elsa" from Los Destellos
Sample Track 4:
"Carinito" from Los Hijos Del Sol
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The New York Times, CD Mention >>

The steady clip-clop of cumbia runs through Andean music old and new, and Peruvian rockers embraced it during their hippie era. Wah-wah guitars, cheap electric organs, Latin percussion and the cumbia beat are supremely compatible on "The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru" (Barbès), an anthology of songs recorded from 1968 to 1978. Chicha, a style named after a fermented corn drink, wasn't out-there psychedelic jamming. It was jovial, folksy tunes arriving via vintage technology that sounds even woozier now than it did in its day.

Jon Pareles 11/04/07 >> go there
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