Music : The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru

Rating: - Absolutey Angelic Music!!!
I heard this music on myspace and instantly fell in love with it. When I read the review below, it quite saddened me and I felt this music needed to be spoken well off. It is often a shame when people believe that their opinions are the only ones that matter and everyone else may as not exist, to the level that they have to dehumanise the efforts and artistic expressions of other human beings....(artistic fascism.) There is nothing more inhumane than this view. To me, this music IS "angelic" and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I admit that it might not be for everyone. (Bob Marley's my favourite and yet a couple of my really close friends just can't get into him.)Everyone's different, get over it. However, only a fool will find himself ripped off after buying this CD. Why? Because there are samples of it all over the inernet. I listened to all 17 of them and decided I liked it before buying. If you don't like the samples, don't buy the CD. Pretty common sense, if you ask me. One note I will make, though, is that just as with all pop culture buzz words, everyone has their own interpretation of what psychedelic means. If your version is the typical psych cliche of this: 1.One day, boy or girl decides they need to experience more, 2.They encounter some drug, particularly LSD 3. They decide to take it 4. Now the universe will never be the same and they can never go back and they've seen the sham of our existence and they could only figure out what thousands have figured out without drugs by the use of LSD and there's only one thing left to do 5. write a 20 minute rock opus with fuzz and wah and flanging and all the effects that everyone else is using at the time and tell the world what a strange trip it's been, only to burn out after that...well you won't find this cliche here. To me I'd say it had a more tropical and surf feel, like I'm stepping into the rainforest. But like I said, listen to the samples and judge for yourself, and go to the myspace site where there are four songs in full. My favourite is Carinito by Los Hijos del Sol. If that song doesn't sell you, then this CD isn't for you. In my personal taste, this is some of my favourite Latin music, but that's for you to decide. Do yourself a favour, and avoid insulting other's expressions like the plague. After all, what goes around comes around. Respect.

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Rating: - leave this in the rainforest
I bought this item on the recommendation of a fellow member of a Psych internet group. I was intrigued by the idea of a mixture of latin music and screaching surf guitars and wailing farfisa organs. I have NEVER been so disappointed by a cd in my life. It's basically very poor cumbias played by musicians of very poor standard, with the odd interjection of appallingly played electric guitars and totally out of place farfisa. This was junk music played by people trying to earn a bit in the oil fields of Peruvian amazonia. Playing the drunken workers on the weekend - a latter day Peruvian Deadwood no less. To people starved of all that is human and working arduous hours in very inhospitable conditions it may have sounded angelic, but in the cold light of day it sounds horrible. The only thing remotely psychedelic about this is that after you have listened to it , it feels like a bad trip. Avoid like the plague