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Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs From Discos Horoscopo 1977-1987

Label: Rebel Up Records

Catno: RUP021

Formats: 2x Vinyl LP Limited Edition Remastered

Country: Belgium

Release Date: Jan 21, 2022

Styles: Global Sounds

Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs From Discos Horoscopo 1977-1987

Musical revolutions are often born from the people. 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. It was a unique moment of fusions and diverse interventions in Peruvian culture brought about by Andean migration from the countryside to the city which gave rise to intercultural adaptations and mixing. The true new Peruvian sound was not played with folk instruments but with guitars and timbales. In the 60’s and 70’s Peruvian tropical music was characterized by psychedelic hybridity and instrumentals for mass delight, by the mid-70s the appearance of a "class consciousness" and therefore a subaltern narrative. ‘Chicha’ is perhaps the genre that has most emphasized its pride in being proletariat, itinerant, provincial and hardworking.

Tracklist

A1 - Chacalón Y La Nueva Crema - Poco a Poco