#peruvian music

[frauncestavern]

FAKE indie lofi folk fans: teehee i love indie bands like neutral milk hotel and the mountain goats i will now post about them to my many online followers

REAL indie lofi folk fans: will someone else besides me please please please  listen to this incredible 1964 recording of a young girl in the mountains of Peru singing about marriage in the Quechuan language 

#joking of course #the mountain goats #neutral milk hotel #voyager golden record #peruvian music #indigenous music #peru #south america #native american #indie music #niche music #hyperniche #obscure music #folk music #music taste #world music #rare music

[thesinglesjukebox]

LENIN - "INTIRAYMI"

Next, from Jessica, a Peruvian house banger with layers...

[7.46]

Jessica Doyle: Don't worry about the backstory yet, there's no rush. Let's start by enjoying a party jam whose ambition shows in its structure: in an era of two-minute songs and dance tracks with no actual rhythm, "Intiraymi" has not only the required bouncy chorus that ends with "ĄEs un carnaval!" but a distinct repeated pre-chorus and a distinct bridge during which to gear up for the final dance. Also, let's face it, this is the best use of strings in a K-pop or K-pop-adjacent song since the legendary "The Ghost of Wind." Even the song's more subtle touches -- that Lenin ends the initial rounds of the chorus on a lower note, so it has more impact when he doubles himself going higher at the end -- work in its favor. Okay, now we can throw in the backstory: Lenin Tamayo Pinares is the son of an Andean folksinger and native speaker of Quecha, and not only a self-produced musician but one committed to using contemporary Andean music as an agent of collective empowerment for indigenous minorities (and hopefully getting an undergraduate thesis done on the topic while he's at it). Fun is fun, and "Intiraymi" is well-crafted, contagious fun no matter how little time you want to invest in it, but you do need a little bit of context to understand why I want this man to realize all of his ambitions and then some. [9]

Nortey Dowuona: "This is not only a positive message," he said of his music. "It's a battle." [10]

Taylor Alatorre: If I were to listen to this without looking any further into Quechua culture, I'd have to guess that the Intiraymi is basically akin to a Copa América celebration. Lenin shows more interest here in creating sounds with cross-border appeal than in putting centuries of suppressed history on display, as is fully his right. Those violin breaks act as tethers to a living past rather than dusted-off artifacts of an ancient one, more evocative of extended family gatherings than Inca and Chanka glories. The sense of forced fun is never entirely absent, but that's something it has in common with family gatherings as well. [6]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Intiraymi is a (Southern Hemisphere) Winter Solstice festival, so it feels appropriate to review "Intiraymi" as I experience the Northern Hemisphere equivalent. This is a banger for the shortest day of the year, a concentrated, poised delivery of hooks that eventually folds into a giddy, delirious fit of ecstasy. [8]

Ian Mathers: Of course, there are only so many combinations of different letters out there; when different languages share the same character sets, you're going to get some weird and/or funny overlaps. Which explains why someone going by Lenin is singing the praises of an Incan festival for the sun god. He's got an interesting background, but I don't have the context to know how significant the subject matter here is. But that's all kind of just background; I don't even need the subtitles to tell that the chorus is celebrating some sort of carnival, and infectiously so. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: An ebullient little house-pop charmer. It's a bit too cheery for my tastes, but those strings are something to celebrate. [5]

Brad Shoup: LENIN's very unsweaty take on K-pop is the draw for sure, but dig that chorus: it sounds like Suede. [7]

Michelle Myers: When you're a K-Pop fan, everything starts to sound like idol music. Tate McRae? She's K-Pop. Ed Sheeran? Totally K-Pop. Nu Metal? That's just Ateez with guitars. But Lenin Tamayo is different. He's purposefully trying to make music that sounds like the Peruvian equivalent of an early 2010s Kenzie banger. [8]

Frank Kogan: This is excitement from the start, the danceable violin riff and the floor beats coming in, a melody with punch and lilt, and on from there: fiddle breaks, sensitive idol star interludes, absolutely sing-a-long-able chorus. His voice is as small as Hilary Duff's, and the wails are more gestured at than actually wailing; so he's getting by on brains more than vocal cords. That's not bad at all, if the arrangements and songwriting get the music to go where he wants it, which they emphatically do here. [7]

Kayla Beardslee: It's so hard to go wrong with a rousing piano-house banger, and this one certainly doesn't! [7]

Aaron Bergstrom: The Inca had a pretty advanced understanding of astronomy. Based on the ruins they left behind, we know they could calculate the solstices with an impressive level of precision. They knew they lived in a clockwork universe, that the days would get shorter until a calculable date, after which they would start to get longer again. And yet, despite this scientific certainty, they still devoutly observed the Inti Raymi, a nine-day festival around the winter solstice dedicated to worshipping the sun god Inti. It's possible there were a few people in those crowds who gave themselves over fully to the supernatural, who worried that they days would keep getting shorter forever unless they properly demonstrated their devotion, but I think most people knew that the sun would return no matter what. That didn't make the Inti Raymi any less important to them. The return of the sun demands celebration, regardless of how your personal cosmology explains it. Anyway, I've been playing this song a lot lately. Today is the shortest day of the year. Tomorrow will be five seconds longer. I'm not saying I caused that, but I'm also not going to stop playing the song. Praise Inti. [9]

Will Adams: How refreshing for a cry of "es un carnaval!" to actually sound like it. How crucial it is for dance-pop bangers to be a little cheesy. [7]

Katherine St Asaph: Power in cheese. [7]

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#lenin #music #peruvian music #music writing #music criticism #music reviews #the singles jukebox #Youtube

[mywifeleftme]

239: Zulu // Zulu

Zulu Zulu 1974, IEMPSA (Bandcamp)

Not, perhaps surprisingly, a record by a Black South African artist, or indeed an artist with any recent African heritage at all, Zulu’s Zulu is instead a 1974 Peruvian psych-rock/folk/pop LP by one Miguel Ángel Ruiz Orbegoso, who picked up the nickname because his large lips made him the target of racist schoolyard roasts. It was, people are saying, a different time. Still, the 2021 reissue from Vampi Soul is one of my favourite random pickups of the past year, a gem that sits somewhere between Brazilian bossa nova, UK psych rock, and cheesy US pop that brings them all together with a satisfying smush.

Zulu was Ruiz Orbegoso’s debut as a solo artist, but he was a seasoned musician thanks to spells in a few Peruvian rock bands, including the fairly well-known prog/psych band Traffic Sound. Zulu’s sound hangs onto a few of Traffic Sound’s tropes, including some stinging electric guitars and gnarly organs, but the songwriting is more direct, letting the riffs and hooks breathe. I bought the record on the strength of opening cut “Candela,” a calypso-like gem that manages to have both swagger and a real giddiness to it. Inspired by the cries of street vendors hocking their wares on the streets of Lima, it feels like a musical number that could open a film—the song lets you really savour its simple piano riff as it ambles along, Zulu wailing the title now and then as though to bid you step out of your home and watch the show. When it finally breaks down into a dance groove, Zulu invites a bunch of hand drummers and some of his (real life) neighbourhood friends to form a gibberish chorus before he launches himself into a singularly breathless wail. According to the liners, “Candela” was a radio hit in Peru, which is oddly gratifying to me—it’s a perfect pop single and deserved to be feted as such.

The record is stuffed with other good tracks: “Sueño de amor” (“Dream of Love”) is a supremely groovy Latin jam in kind of a merengue vein; “Cari​ñ​o grande” has a stomping acoustic guitar riff and a delicious Moog synth tone that imitates a traditional Andean quena flute; “Si en el cielo yo viviera” is progger’s delight, with a starry atmosphere and untrammeled wee-oo-wee-ooing Moog throughout; “Laberintos” strikes a pensive folk pose, with some stunning acoustic soloing from guest guitarist Carlos Curacao. The record fades a bit towards the end, but it’s never worse than pleasant, and it’s easy to lose yourself in.

Zulu was an immediate success, but Ruiz Orbegoso had a change of heart towards the music industry due to a sudden and particularly nasty attack of Christianity. A few months after his debut he asked the record company to release him from his contract and cease production of the LP, effectively deleting it. He’d never record again, becoming a successful motivational speaker in the ‘80s and ‘90s (you can picture me shaking my head and kicking at the dirt here). With the recent reissue, he’s been more nostalgic about his salad days though, launching a Blogspot page where he reflects at length on the record and (at even more length) about many other topics. As a fan of lesser-known music from this region and period, it’s an unexpected gift to have the insight Ruiz Orbegoso offers on a near-fifty-year-old one-off LP, and worth having a poke around if you’re as taken with Zulu as I am. (Though once again, if you plan on reading the whole thing, pack sandwiches.)

239/365

#zulu #peru #peruvian music #latin american music #psych rock #bossa nova #vampi soul #music review #'70s music #traffic sound

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

“Chrysalis” by Lima, Peru-based coldwave one-man-band Schmerz off of 2023 debut full-length album Lamentum

#coldwave #darkwave #gothwave #new wave #Schmerz #Chrysalis #Lamentum #music #Peruvian #South American #2023 #debut album #Peruvian goth #2020s goth #2020s music #Peruvian music #South American music #South American goth

[heritage-harmony-records]

SIGNING ALERT!!!

I am extremely pleased to announce that Heritage Harmony Records is working with Talara, Peru based experimental electronic / ambient / trance / industrial artist Xavi to release their new album Pithecanthropus EP. OUT NOW!!!

Remember to always support independent, underground and emerging artists!

Listen to and purchase the album at the link below. All sale proceeds go directly to the artist as always with HHR.

#electronic #trance music #industrial music #ambient music #electronic music #Peruvian music #Peru #independent artist #heritage harmony records #ambient #Bandcamp

[gacougnol]

Peruvian ‘chicha’ cumbia is the music born in the "barrios bajos” (slums), alleys, hills and the peripheries of Lima on the coast and cities on the edge of the Andes mountains in the late 70’s and 80’s

(via ▶︎ Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-1987 | Various Artists | Rebel Up! Records)

#bandcamp #peruvian music #chicha #cumbia

[nugothrhythms]

Article by @thecvltnation on 1980s Peruvian post-punk bands

#cvlt nation #peru #peruvian music #trad goth #1980s music #post punk #eighties music #1980s peru #peruvian post punk #peruvian goth #gothblr #south american #gothgoth #latin american #latin american post punk #south american post punk #postpunk

[thelensofyashunews]

A.CHAL Brings Peruvian Customs to the Concrete Jungle in "PIRITU" Video

Channeling deeply personal stories and otherworldly forces into his art, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter A.CHAL was born to make music. Returning refreshed and ready to release a new album, the artist born Alejandro Chal Salazar shares "PIRITU," his new video single. A hypnotic concoction built around Rhodes electric piano and an easygoing, lightly-swinging trap beat, the Milanezie-produced "PIRITU" (slang for "espíritu," meaning "spirit") explains how A.CHAL's ancestral pride contributes to the restless creative spirit that keeps him going. He switches effortlessly between English and Spanish, taking a moment to flex and explain his zen life philosophy: "Take an L with a smile, even when I'm down they wondering why/Pour one up in the night, and look at the sky, this life is a ride," he intones in a fast-paced triplet flow.

"This song is about keeping your essence, no matter where or how you go," says A.CHAL. "I'm not roaming the mountains in a robe, but I'm out here in Timbs representing my inner self in a raw way."

In the video, directed by fashion photographer Sam Nixon, A.CHAL brings the traditions of his ancestral homeland of Peru to his current home of New York City. Rocking his custom Avirex bomber jacket, designed by A.CHAL himself and developed by Al-Hassan Tour and Kwasi Kessie, which pays homage to both his love for NYC rap (particularly the Diplomats) and his ancestral home of Peru, A.CHAL makes a trip to the banks of the East River to perform a holistic ritual. He adorns a knit blanket with sacred stones, before preparing and inhaling his herbs, his first step on a spiritual and creative journey to find himself. At the end of the video, A.CHAL walks to the edge of the riverbank and gazes upon the skyline of his adopted home with pride.  

"The video was shot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in the same place where Biggie shot that iconic photo with Faith Evans," says A.CHAL. "Originally, the footage is just BTS from an album cover shoot. I had this image of doing a Shaman ritual with the city in the background. I wanted to evoke my two backgrounds: both the concrete jungle of NYC and the Shamanistic background I have from my Peruvian roots. I am a holistic person, so I thought it was cool to flex my mind and my spirituality instead of my material possessions. My jacket is inspired by Dipset, and their custom-made Avirex bomber jackets, and mine–which I designed with my boy Kwasi, who is a Harlem native–bears the logo of the Peruvian soccer team."

Alejandro Chal Salazar spent years making his own way in the music industry, building an audience with his evocative, trap-influenced sound that produced hits like "000000," "Love N Hennessy," and "GAZI." Now, after departing his major label and two and a half years of soul-searching, A.CHAL is preparing to release his most introspective record yet, exposing all sides of himself and he attempts to find his place in a turbulent world. Late last year, A.CHAL released two singles that hinted at the direction of his upcoming project: "Saico," covered by Office Mag, borrows elements from psychedelic rock as it interrogates his reckless behavior, while A.CHAL's December 2023 release "Walk On Everything" (and its accompanying video, directed by Xavier Scott Marshall) radiates extreme confidence as it rides a propulsive "beach goth" instrumental. Most recently, A.CHAL teamed up with Jimmy Whoo for the fiery single "6 de la Mañana."

Stay tuned for many more announcements about A.CHAL and his upcoming project in the near future.

#a. chal #a chal #piritu #peruvian #peru #peruvian musician #peruvian artist #peruvian music #music #musician #art #artist #rnb #R&B #Youtube #Spotify

[godsbasementlabs]

HiKi Project llega a TikTok

Father months of thinking what to do on that space, HiKi Project finally decided to jump into Tik Tok.

Join us!!!!

#vocaloid #vocaloid producer #hatsune miku #hatsune fanart #japanese music #Peruvian Music

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Tagged by @evebabitzgf to post 6 albums ive been listening to lately <3<3<3 kisses 4 ever... in order from l to r: xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx

Tagging @projectiondepartment @kieranculkingirl @brigittefitzgerald @concordewillfly @bloodenjoyer and anyone else who wants!!!

#thank yewwww ily <3 its not my music taste without at least one 1960s peruvian surf rock album lol #tag game #hollyws

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Eva Ayllón

Eva Ayllón was born in 1956 in Lima, Peru. Ayllón is sometimes called the "Queen of Afro-Peruvian Soul", and "Peru's Tina Turner". She has had a remarkable five-decade musical career and has released more than 30 albums. Allyón's achievements include 4 platinum records, a sold out Carnegie Hall performance, and a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

#music #musicians #singers #peruvian #peru #afro-peruvian #black women #afrolatina #latina #latin america #south america #Youtube

[frauncestavern]

you ever think about how the most beautiful compositions of music of all history are probably random things no ones heard of? listen to this young girl from the mountains of peru and tell me its not the most beautiful song youve ever heard. yes im crying listening to the voyager golden record leave me alone

 https://open.spotify.com/track/5P02GOAJkbbgwOpP07n1Ex

#indigenous music #peruvian music #peru #voyager golden record #space #humanity #south american #music #music theory #world music

[arthistoryanimalia]

For the #Caturday night band:

Jaguar Trumpet Moche, Peru (north coast), 200 BCE- 600 CE terracotta Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“Among the Moche and other Pre-Columbian cultures, the jaguar, a large, powerful, and stealthy nocturnal predator and symbol of might, was revered and associated with gods, rulers, and shamans. The Maya and others considered the jaguar's growls as the voice of thunder, and the roaring jaguar trumpet appropriately evokes its cry.”

#Moche art #Peruvian art #South American art #Indigenous American art #Indigenous art #musical instruments #ceramics #terracotta #ancient art #Jaguar #feline #big cat #Caturday #Metropolitan Museum of Art New York #museum visit #animals in art

[mywifeleftme]

306: Jardín // Maqui de hierro

Maqui de hierro Jardín 2005, Self-released (Bandcamp)

Peru’s Buh Records was the subject of a lavish Pitchfork feature last year, which introduced me to a lot of cool Latin American avant garde artists on the label’s roster. Most of their releases that I’ve checked out have been ‘70s-era reissues, but one that jumped out at me was a late ‘90s to early ‘00s noise/techno duo called Jardín. In the piece, the label’s founder Luis Alvarez says meeting them “opened up a whole musical universe that I didn’t know. Jardín’s music was like an epiphany for me.” You can tell from the way Alvarez talks about them, and the gushing liner notes on this 2019 reissue of their third/fourth (the liners can’t decide which) cassette release from 2005, that he has a personal investment in keeping their memory alive—the kind of heart’s fav that makes someone start a label in the first place. I think anyone who has spent time in an art scene has their own archive full of brilliant unknowns, artists who maybe ruled the city for a year before fizzling out, people who dazzled at open mics and then got a full-time job at Shopify, leaving no publishable utterances behind.

So, I had a degree of preloaded affection for the band before I even listened to them, but I’m happy to second Alvarez that these guys ruled. Hard electronic that sorta sits on the border between techno and power noise, the liners make reference to the influence of Andean Indigenous drumming and the use of ocarinas (originally a Mesoamerican instrument) but I don’t find that Maqui de hierro (Iron Maqui, a type of Chilean berry) reads as explicitly “ethnic fusion” music. If I were listening blind, I’d’ve likely guessed they were German, Spanish, American, or even Montreal’s own before getting down the atlas to Peru—actually, I’d probably have given up, told you they were extremely sick, and then pulled my hoodie up and kind of bobbed up and down in place while staring at the ground.

Recorded mostly live or in their studio space, these are roiling concrete and metal constructions. The opening tracks are the most conventionally danceable, percolating techno rhythms and warlike bass drones kicking it beneath an upper atmosphere of slashing static and endless delay. “Perfume de ceniza” (“Ash Perfume”) in particular goes extremely hard, with this thrilling rill of digital distortion in its midst that sounds like a laser shark’s fin sheering through an ocean of metal. Both LP sides gradually descend into harsher, more experimental murk, still rhythmic though the irregular beats are now localized on a singular position, like a malfunctioning compressed air hammer trying to batter a crooked plate flat. I have to imagine Jardín played this stuff live at ear-bleeding volume, but with the stereo knob in your own hand at home you’re free to enjoy the wild variety of textures they tease out of their ratking of pedals, switchboards, and wires. The 15-minute “Serpientes de humo” reveals their Latin influences most clearly, with spooky ocarina trills like forlorn bird calls and some ritualistic percussion passages peeping through the maelstrom.

Kudos to Buh for keeping the memory of a cool project alive—highly recommend adventurous listeners take a trawl through the rest of the label's catalogue, there are a ton of gems to discover.

306/365

#Jardín #Buh Records #peru #peruvian music #hard techno #power noise #industrial #power electronics #'00s music #music review #vinyl record #latin american music

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

"Esquizo Serrano" by Chachapoyas, Peru-based post-punk cumbia act Cancelados off of their 2023 release En Perú, distributed by Chachapoyas, Peru-based indie label Discos Soma

#post punk #cumbia #peruvian cumbia #post cumbia #Cancelados #Esquizo Serrano #En Perú #music #first share #Peruvian #South American #2023 #Chachapoyas Peru #Peruvian music #Peruvian post punk #Bandcamp

[eternal-reverie]

I fell down the rabbit hole with discovering new music and then new-to-me old music, and then somehow circling back to familiar yet unknown music that I rarely search for. Music that my mom would play from her country in the background since my childhood.

#all because of an instagram ad for this guy’s debut single which is a really good disco bop and scrolling thru his ig #and finding that out he’s a pianist too and played an arrangement of siempre en mi corazón which is a gorgeous Cuban melody #then I typed into Spotify and found other versions because when I like a song w/ lots of versions out there I have to go listen to them all #and then I stumbled upon huaynos and peruvian folk music and i was like oh hey!!! #all that to say I miss Peru 😭 #I was trying to find out more about this Peruvian music artist which there’s barely any info on #and I ended up on the travel side of YouTube with someone going around a peruvian neighborhood and my soul aches to return #and see my family there #I really do miss them and that place. a part of my heart was left there forever I guess (இ﹏இ`｡) #click clack #also discovered a taiwanese music artist because the piano disco guy deep in his ig had a photo together with her. good music everywhere