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Sample Track 1:
"Sonido Amazonico" from ChiCha Libre
Sample Track 2:
"Primavera en la Selva" from ChiCha Libre
Sample Track 3:
"Tres Pasajeros" from ChiCha Libre
Sample Track 4:
"Six Pieds Sous Terre" from ChiCha Libre
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ChiCha Libre
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Chicha Libre
¡Sonido Amazonico! (Barbès)
If you dug Dengue Fever’s throwback blacklight exoti-cool, get a load of these cats. Led by Olivier Conan, owner of NYC’s Barbès club and label, with Combustible Edison’s Nick Cudahy on bass, the quintet revive the chicha sound born in the bars of Peru’s riverfront frontier towns in the 1960s. A groovy jungle mash named after a nasty corn liquor, it knotted together Colombian cumbias, Andean folk and organ-driven gogo rock. Conan and co. build on that base with strong streak of Morricone and, amid the covers of chicha classics and clever originals, riffs on Vivaldi, Satie and Gershon Kingsley’s “Popcorn.” 8/10

By: Rupert Bottenberg
 04/09/08 >> go there
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