Conjunto Sol del Peru - Musica del Cuzco: La Tierra de los Incas

Back in November 2008, I posted an album of Peruvian music by Conjunto Orquestal Puno. Its strange stuff indeed. It was never downloaded much (I suppose many people imagined it to be pan pipe music like Incantation or something) and so I never bothered posting any of the other records that came in the same batch. Well for the few who did enjoy, or were touched by, the weird sounds of the high Andes, here's another album of music from the Land of the Incas.

If you've ever enjoyed the music of Yma Sumac, then this one's sure to please.

Tracklist:

01 Wuayllas Tusy
02 Paras Shayan
03 Cuando el Indio Llora
04 Waraka Tusuy
05 La Flecha Incaica
06 El Condor Pasa
07 Quenas
08 Pockra
09 Ckashampa
10 Saerrana Ingrata
11 Pfallcha (Flor Indigena)
12 Intillay Quillallay

Get it HERE.

Conjunto Orquestal Puno - Peruvian sounds from the 1950s

I picked up this strange Peruvian album in a charity shop in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. I can't find anything on the internet about the orchestra, but some of the songs on the album are Huaynos which are :

the result of the meeting of traditional mountain music with its high-pitched vocals, insistent beat, and breathy flutes - and more commercial, urban sounds, including those of Colonial music from Spain. Like contemporary North American musical hybrids, moreover, the kinds and combinations of instruments are often surprising: harps and harmonicas, mandolins and saxophones, panpipes and accordions, as well as guitars, violins and charangas.

Mark Greenberg — Sing Out!
http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/320.shtml

To my ears, this is some strange stuff with its weird blend of Andean and western instruments and its melancholy sound.

Tracklisting:

1. ZAMPOÑA DE ORO: Sicuri
2. KQENCHA MOZA: Huayno
3. JOYITA PUNEÑA: Huayno - Pandillero
4. LA PARADITA: Marinera Puneña
5. FANTASIA PANDILLERA: Huayno
6. CARNAVAL DE ICHO: Danza Costumbrista
7. LINDA SERRANITA: Huayno Pandillero
8. LLAMERADA: Danza
9. IMILLlTA: Huayno
10 LA TRADICIONAL: Marinera Puneña
Director: Cástor Vera Solano

Get the zip over here.