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Sample Track 1:
"Mujer Hilandera " from Juaneco y su Combo
Sample Track 2:
"Un Shipibo en Espana" from Juaneco y su Combo
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All right, are you ready for this one? This band of Mestizos fronted by three generations of a Chinese-Peruvian family dresses up like the Shipibo Indians from their Amazonian hometown to play chicha, a genre popular in the Peruvian highlands in the 1960s that was fueled by Columbian cumbia, Brazilian carimbo, surf rock and local hallucinogens, and recently enjoyed a revival courtesy of a French Brooklynite. Sound like a heady brew? It oughtta: chicha was named after a corn liquor, and the effervescent, blissed-out sounds on this seminal band's retrospective will leave you feeling good.
 

-- by Rachel Devitt
 11/06/08 >> go there
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