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Jolgorio
Peru Negro.
For the last 35 years, Perú Negro has been a primary outlet for
the Afro-Peruvian music tradition. As with all Afro-Peruvian music,
listeners will hear touches of flamenco-like guitar and clapping, call-and-response
choruses, clattering African hand percussion and actual tap-dance-like
dancing. At its most upbeat, the album has a carnival-like atmosphere
("Carnival Negro") where it's impossible not to imagine people
dancing.
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Huayno
Music of Peru, Vol. 2: (1960-1970)
This re-release of historic ethnic recordings contains music from the
Andean regions of Peru. From the solo harpist to the brass band, from
the high-pitched duets of the the women to the gruff, throaty sound
of the men, there is a little bit of everything on this recording. The
glue that holds it all together is the rhythm of the Huayno and other
related dance forms.
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Afro-Peruvian
Classics: The Soul of Black Peru
David Byrne has assembled a masterpiece of rhythm and heart-felt joy.
This album represents the roots of Afro-Peruvian music. The lyrics of
some of the songs provide the passion of the Afro-Peruvians back in
the 1800s.The quality of this wonderful compilation (Afro/Peruvian)
is something that you can't do without in your music collection!
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Explorer:
Peru - Fiestas Music of the High Andes. The music was recorded
in June and July 1968 and was originally released in 1972.Some songs
feature only two flutes playing together all the way to a 15 piece brass
band playing festival music. I was unsure what to expect from a diverse
line-up of music and musicians, but I am still impressed by the quality
and clarity of these recordings.
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 Mejores
Exitos De La Morena De Oro Del Peru:
Lucha Reyes Lucha Reyes was a Peruvian singer of great
intensity, perfect diction, beautiful sense of rythm and poignant soulfulness.
Her voice reminds one of the young Edith Piaf, it is a powerful, resonnant
instrument and although she died young because of very poor health,
she remains one of Peru's emblematic singers.
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Traditional
Music Of Peru 1: Festivals Of Cusco
(Smithsonian Folkways Series) Music of religious festivals
is one of the richest and most important types of musical expression
in the Andes. These 1989 recordings from the Peruvian Archives of Traditional
Andean Music present lively music of the religious festivals in the
Cusco region. Devotees perform with flutes and drums, harps and violins,
accordions, brass bands, and voices. The performances present
Andean music in its contemporary religious setting."Puts
you in touch with the real thing." –Tucson Citizen
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 Susana
Baca
IF SUSANA BACA NEVER MADE ANOTHER ALBUM AFTER THIS ONE,
HER PLACE IN
MUSICAL HISTORY WOULD BE ASSURED. NEVER HAVE I HEARD SUCH BEAUTIFUL,
MEANINGFUL, AND RELEVANT MUSIC! HER VOICE IS INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL, AND
HER BAND DOESNT MISS A BEAT, THE SENSATION WAS AS IF I HAD FINALLY RECONNECTED
W/MY AFRICAN ROOTS.
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Real
Music of Peru - Huaynos & Huaylas by
Picaflor De Los Andes, Flor Pucarina, Orquesta Los Tarumas De Tarma,
La Pallasquinita, etc. This CD is full of exellent music from Junin,
Peru.
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Espiritu
Vivo
Susana Baca
Susana Baca belongs to a new generation of Peruvian singers, delving
into the shadows of the past to recover shimmering melodies and seductive
rhythms. Her seemingly effortless interpretative skills belie years
of work assembling the songs, the stories and the steps of music and
dances once consigned to history. |
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Land
of the Incas
Inkuyo
In this album Inkuyo plays a medley of traditional and contemporary
compositions with traditional Andean instruments (flute, panpipes, guitar
and drums). The tunes are mostly joyful with a few melancholy ones.The
music, which is purely instrumental (except for one track),is through
and through traditional with no concessions made to New Age or Pop styles.
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Chabuca
Granda Grandes Exitos
One of the most important composer/vocalist in the history of Peruvian
music, Chabuca Granda continued to make her presence
felt a decade after her death in 1983. Caetano Veloso used her song,
"Fina Estampa," as the title track of an
album released in 1994, while her song, "Maria Lando," written
with Cesar Calvo, provided the North American breakthrough for Peruvian
vocalist Susana Baca the following year. Granda's song
"La Flor De La Canela" has become an anthem for the city of
Lima. Granda worked with a lengthy list of influential guitarists including
Oscar Aviles, Martin Torres, Lucho González, Alvaro Lagos, and
Felix Casaverde. |
Mountain
Music of Peru, Vol. 2
(Smithsonian Folkways Series)
This recording contains music of the Andean people as performed in their
own communities. It contains stunning panpipe ensembles and a wide variety
of vocal and instrumental styles. A single festival from the Mantaro
Valley is documented here plus the panpipe, flute, and takara music
of the Aymara, as featured in Tom Turino’s book, Moving Away from
Silence. 29 tracks. "Interesting listening, a contrast to everyday
fare." –Sing Out!
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Traditional
Music of Peru, Vol. 6: The Ayacucho Region
Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways- 2001. The twenty-seven recordings in this collection are the first from
the Andean department of Ayacucho to be made available since that
region's period of heavy conflict in the 1980s and early 1990s. These
songs, which range from melodic and beautiful to stark and simple,
evoke water, fertility, and life events in their lyrical, aesthetic,
and symbolic content. Liner notes in Spanish and English include translations
of song texts in the native Quechua language. 28-page booklet, photos,
53 minutes.
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Traditional
Music of Peru, Vol. 4: Lambayeque
Various Artists Smithsonian Folkways
These 22 tracks, recorded in 1990-1991 in the three cultural
regions (Creole, Afro-Cuban, and Andean) of the Department of Lambayeque
in northern Peru, feature music of festival dances and songs accompanied
by a variety of instruments, and Christmas carols sung by children.
"The collection's aural quality has a surreal edge and its purity
of spirit is spellbinding." - Americas
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Traditional
Music of Peru, Vol. 5: Celebrating Divinity in the High Andes
On the shoulders of the high Andes sacred moments are celebrated with
a creative mix of pre-Columbian and more recent sounds. Here, where
rural communities celebrate religious holidays and other occasions with
dance dramas and music, flute and drum ensembles, harps, and violins
share the streets and town squares with saxophones and trumpets. Recorded
in the Callejon de Huaylas in 1993. 64 minutes.
Includes 24 page booklet with notes in English and Spanish, map, and
photographs. |
Ayahuasca
Songs from the Peruvian Amazon
Luis Panduro Vasquez
These indigenous ayahuasca songs are recorded live in the Peruvian Amazon
Jungle. The ayahuasquero who is conducting a ceremony, sings these traditional
and sacred songs with the intent for creating an environment of healing
and protection for the participants in the ceremony. Ayahuasca, a visionary
and healing plant medicine, has been used by Amazonian shamans for millennia.
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Valses
Peruanos Eternos
Oscar Aviles
Aviles is Considered the Most Representative Peruvian Folkloric Guitarist.
The 65 Year Old Musician is Known for Fusing Different Elements "Moriscos",
"Gitanos" and "Africanos". Among them is "Zamacueca",
a Peruvian Dance and Guitar Tone.
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Double-Headed
Serpent
Inkuyo
This recording, like Inkuyo's previous work, includes a number of traditional
Andean folk songs and dances—some old enough to date back to the
Incan Empire. The group also performs the recent Latin American phenomenon
known as Nueva Cancion, or New Song, that contains social or sharply
political lyrics, and combines traditional and European instruments. |
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Amazon
Days, Amazon Nights
Bernie Krause
The richest mix of creature sounds comes from the tropical rainforests
of the planet. Over time, the resident birds, frogs, mammals, insects,
and reptiles learn to vocalize in unique relationships to each other
– much like instruments in an orchestra. This biophony is as beautiful
as any music heard in the major symphony halls of the world. In the
second cut, Amazon Nights, a jaguar approaches our microphone only to
discover it isn’t particularly edible.
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 Amazon
Song
Rusty Crutcher
Music gently floats over the quietly active sounds of Amazon Jungle wildlife.
From droplets of condensation falling on the jungle floor, to a tree falling
in the distance, and the wings of jungle birds flying past - sounds of
the jungle harmonize with music for a relaxing, yet invigorating visit
to the rapidly-disappearing and ever-more-precious rainforest. Environmental
sounds were digitally recorded at Tambotapa Wildlife Preserve, Amazon
Basin, Peru, August 1987. |
Songs
of the Plant Spirits
Don Pedro Guerra Gonzales
These songs are recorded live in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. The shaman,
Don Pedro, who is singing them, has received these icaros directly through
his contact with plant and other elemental spirits of the jungle. These
icaros were given to him by the spirits who taught him to heal. Because
of his direct alliance with them, and their powers which he carries within
his body, the energies of these spirits are invoked when he sings these
icaros. He uses them in ceremony and for curing. |
Guitarra Raul
Garcia Zarate, Upon the arrival of the guitar to the New World,
like the harp, it was adopted by Peruvian natives who adapted it to their
melodies and rhythms, creating a unique prose, transforming the tuning
and sounds or reinventing the instrument, in the form of a charango. Raul
Garcia Zarate, a cross-breed from Ayacucho, accurately synthesized the
Andean people’s understanding of the guitar. He had a decisive influence
on the formation of the Ayacucho guitar school. |
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Also our BOOK section and NEWS
on Peru |
 Peru:
A Mi Patria
Jaime Guardia, Abelardo Vasquez, Maximo
Damian, Felix Casaverde A Mi Patria focuses its attention on
the mestizo music of coastal and Andean Peru, a music rich in European
influences and yet having clear tracks back to the slaves brought there,
and to the indigenous population of the region. The album traces the singers
of songs; the small instrumental groups of violins, charango, mandolin,
and harp; the ensembles of quena (flutes) and cajon (the deep, rich percussion
box); and the more contemporary groups that have replaced the fiddles
with brass instruments. |
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Leyenda Peruana
Eva Ayllon Susana Baca is usually the first Peruvian
singer that comes to mind for many North Americans, but Baca's popularity
in her homeland is actually surpassed by singer Eva Ayllon. Performing
since the late 1970s, Ayllon fills 30,000 seat arenas and records platinum-selling
records at home. Whereas Baca's voice is delicate and lilting with wisps
of jazz, Ayllon is fiery and earthy as she sings in Spanish. Her music
is mostly made up of traditional lando, festejo, and vals that come out
of the Afro-Peruvian tradition, punctuated by the music's signatory box-shaped
cajon drum as well as congas, acoustic guitar and piano. |
 Peru:
Quechua Music from Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca is
the mythic centerpiece of Incan civilization.The rich musical traditions
that are hidden in the Andes have existed for many centuries and have
only within the last 20 years made their way down onto the mainland, and
have almost never been exported. These recordings, on Peru: Quechua Music
From Lake Titicaca, come from the island of Taquile -- from an island
in the lake, hung from a cloud -- where 900 citizens pursue a way of indigenous
life that has all but disappeared in their region. As in any indigenous
community, music regulates daily life in Taquile. According to the liner
notes, certain common folk melodies can be dated back to pre-Colombian
times. |
Ritmo
de Negros
Pepe Vasquez On the Pacific coast of Peru, a African music
has survived in spite of repression by the Europeans. Drums and marimbas
were forbidden because they "generate trance-like states and are
the work of the devil." As a substitute, unique instruments were
created out of everyday materials and developed into unique instruments
that have remained a staple of Afro-Peruvian rhythm. Pepe Vasquez with
his smokey voice is the undisputed star of this particular music. Brimming
with explosive energy, he mixes the Lando and Festejo styles with dynamic
Salsa grooves. This CD is a portrait of some of his finest music and presents this undisputed star of Afro-Peruvian
music to an international audience for the first time.
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Pachatusan
Inkari
Winaypaq Instrumental Music if you like New Age music.
1. Winaypaq (Eternity)
2. Ayarachi (Spirit Calling)
3. Himmo Al Sol ( Song Of The Sun)
4. Macchu Tusuy (Dance Of The Ancient Ones)
5. Qosqo Llaqta (Song Of Hope)
6. Qosqo Llaqta (Song Of Cusco)
7. Inti Raymi (Festival Of The Sun)
8. Waere (Walking With The Spitits) |
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on Peru |
Rough Guide to Afro Peru
Various Artists
1. Golpe E' Tierra - Susana Baca
2. Ruperta - Peru Negro
3. Herida Obscura - Chabuca Granda/Oscar Aviles
4. Yo Te Canto - Eva Ayllon
5. Saca Camote Con El Pie - Lucila Campos
6. Negro Carbon - Manuel Donayre
7. El Picador - Cecilia Barraza
8. Negra Presentuosa - Susana Baca
9. Cardo O Ceniza - Eva Ayllon
10. Arroz Con Concolon - Roberto Rivas
11. Negrito Chinchivi - Lucila Campos
12. Machete En Su Cuna - Peru Negro
13. Copilas De Amor Y Tondero - Olga Milla
14. El Alcatraz - Arturo "Zambo" Cavero/Oscar Aviles
15. El Sueno De Pochi - Cecilia Barraza
16. Morropon De San Miguel - Julie Freundt
17. Comadre Cololiche - Arturo "Zambo" Cavero
18. Inga - Nicomedes Santa Cruz |
