Recently an anthology was
released in the United States
of chicha, the mildly psychedelic music of 1960s Peru. Perhaps it’s no surprise that
one of the world’s leading contemporary chicha groups is working out of
multicultural Brooklyn, N.Y. Chicha Libre draws from old songs in the genre and
original material, pulling the vocal and instrumental repertoire together into
a playfully rhythmic yet often melodically melancholy sound. Their teasing
arrangements for organ and electric guitar suggest soundtracks to long-lost
’60s movies set in exotic locales.
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