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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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CD Review
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New York Daily News, CD Review >>

The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru (Barbès). Olivier Conan, owner of Brooklyn’s hole-in-the-wall club Barbès, not only loves the effects-heavy electric cumbias popular in 1970s Peru, but he plays it weekly in a band called Chicha Libre. The songs Conan collected and released on his own label are joyfully cheesy, full of quivering Hammond organs and surf-guitar distortion that turn even Beethoven’s “Für Elise” into the irresistible hip-shaker “Para Elisa.” In spite of, or maybe because of, the excessive sound effects and kitschy vocals (check out, for example, the orgasmic cries in “Vacilando con Ayahuesca”), these chicha cumbias are infectious and a good addition to any holiday party mix.
- Carolina Gonzalez 12/19/07 >> go there
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