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The Globe & Mail, CD Review >>
***/5
Chicha, as well as being a fermented beverage, is the name of a brief-lived Peruvian music craze of the 1970s that never took hold the way other Latin fads did - more's the pity. As played by Brooklyn revivalists, Chicha Libre, it's all surf guitars, muddled psychedelia and distorted Electravox. The prevailing beat is reminiscent of Colombian cumbia, though generally faster and stiffer. In other words, it's party music of the highest order. If, that is, your idea of a party features sounds reminiscent of spaghetti-western soundtracks and Mexican corridos, and a minimalism that sometimes borders on dull, until something finally happens (and something usually does). Chicha Libre also do the classics - Ravel, Satie and Vivaldi - as never heard before.
-- by Li Robbins 04/22/08 >> go there
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