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Picaflor

  • Cat No: CLTCD-2095
  • updated:2024-02-12

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CD 2200 JPY

A range of organic grooves centered on "huayno," the altitude-sickness music of Peruvian folklore. From SHIKA SHIKA, the label run by Barrio Lindo and El Buho.

Rather than SHIKA SHIKA's signature slow organic techno / electric folklore direction, this leans more toward live playing and traditional folklore. So who is MARTIN BRUHN? He's played with none other than Carlos Aguirre and comes from the circle around the post-Juana Molina "Argentine sound" school. The fact that he's putting this out on Barrio Lindo's label gives you a sense of where Argentine music is heading. That said, what he's playing here is music from the Andes of South America: huayno, Peruvian musica criolla (mixed-race music), and there's even a cumbia track. The snare drum, hand claps, and odd meters induce a kind of imaginary altitude sickness—an almost abnormally heightened festive energy, dance music of the mountain people. If you've never experienced it, this is one to hear. The album title "Picaflor" refers to the hummingbird, the most popular little bird in South America, often sung about in folklore and familiar from the Nazca Lines. Even though it's live playing, it's dance music too, so we'd love to hear it blasted in a lounge. Just enjoy these traditional South American carnival grooves. (Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)

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