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v/a - the roots of chicha - psychedelic cumbia's from peru - unknown - cd

Genre: Latin

1. Los Mirlos - Sonido Amazonico
2. Juaneco Y Su Combo - linda Nena
3. Los Hijos Del Sol - Carinito (Angel Anibal Rosado)
4. Los Destellos - A Patricia (Enrique Delgado)
5. Los Diablos Rojos - Sacalo Sacalo (Marino Valencia Garay)
6. Juaneco Y Su Combo - Ya Se Ha Muerto Mi Abuelo (Juan Wong Paredes)
7. Los Mirlos - El Milagro Verde (Carlos Rodriguez)
8. Los Destellos - Para Elisa (Beethoven, Enrique delgado)
9. Los Hijos Del Sol - Linda Munequita (Angel Anibal Rosado)
10. Los Mirlos - Muchachita Del Oriente (Humberto Caycho Alcantar)
11. Los Destellos - Elsa (Tomas Rebata Acevedo)
12. Juaneco Y Su Combo - Vacilando Con Ayahuesca (Noe Fachin)
13. Los Diablos Rpjos - El Guapo (Marino Valencia Garay)
14. Eusebio Y Su Banjo - Mi Morena Rebelde (Eusebio Perez)
15. Los Hijos Del Sol - Si Me Quieres (Angel Anibal Rosado)
16. Juaneco Y Su Combo - Me Robaron mi Runa Mula (Noe Fachin)
17. Los Mirlos - La Danza De Los Mirlos (Gilberto Reategui)

Chicha started out in the late 60’s, in the oil-boom cities of the Peruvian Amazon. Cumbias Amazonicas, as they were first known, were loosely inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers. Chicha, which is named after a corn-based liquor favored by the Incas, quickly spread to Lima. It became the music of choice of the mostly indigenous new migrant population – mixing even further with rock, Andean folklore and Peruvian creole music. Very much like Jamaican Ska or Congolese Soukous, Chicha is western-influenced indigenous music geared toward the new urban masses who wholly identified with the new hybrid . Chicha is at once raw and sophisticated - and until now, it had never been released outside of Peru.