There is nothing to not like about this music:
Psychedelic ear candy.
Surf guitars.
Cumbia rhythms.
Highly melodic.
Melodramatic Spanish lyrics. ("Don't withhold your mouth from me, or I will die of pain.")
Chicha Libre is a style from Peru that today is kinda lame. But when this shit was coming about in the late 60s, it was truly awesome; a perfect mix of dance-able rhythms, wah-wah guitars, traditional Peruvian melodies, and melancholic lyrics.
Barbés Records did a really good job with this compilation. They got all the major bands of that time (including Los Hijos Del Sol...fuck yeah!) and all the different flavors and nuances of the emerging Chicha movevent.
Plus how can you not be into a band that looks like this:
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Props to EJ for being able to weigh in on whether this label actually did a good job of capturing the zeitgeist of the of this pretty random Peruvian scene.
Thanks also, read a good review and was hoping it was as good as it sounded.
Someone please get this to Don so he can get it to me!
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