There’s the goofy polka of “Danza del Raspa Raspa,” or the strange, supposedly rock and roll-influenced “Twist Lamista,” showing that even at its most hardcore, Lamas musicians picked up on radio transmissions and foreign migrations.
Flute lines move in and around the rhythms, repeating various parts before shifting. A single flute and various drums carry these tunes. Everything in this collection was recorded between 20 by Percy Alexander Flores Navarro and shows off the most hardcore indigenous music from this Quechua-speaking area. The music of the Lamista Kechwas focuses on a single ensemble, the elderly Los Abuelos del Wayku, who are from the Lamas Province of Peru’s San Martin Department, a region of Northern Peru where mountains, jungle, and wide valleys converge. La música de los Kechwas lamistas: Registros sonoros de comunidades nativas de Lamas by Los Abuelos del Wayku La música de los Kechwas lamistas: Registros sonoros de comunidades nativas de Lamas by Los Abuelos del Wayku All of these tracks are raw, infectious, and punctuated by hollers from the musicians. Songs move from the percussion and clarinet blast of the Conjunto Esperanza de San Martin to the guitar, flute, and violin-driven Los Solteritos, who more than hint at the kinds of Andean melodies typical of Peru and Bolivia’s mountain regions. There may be cumbias, waltzes, or Andean huaynos found here, all played on a mix of traditional and not-so-traditional instruments such as maracas, guitar, clarinet, quena, and various hand drums. However, what they show are musical forms that had long ago hybridized to included sounds from the coasts, the mountains, as well as the Amazon, which means to hear whatever Peruvian Amazonian “traditional” music is to hear a stew of the country’s vast assortment of instruments and rhythms. Around the Humisha focuses on ensembles from the country’s vast Amazon region. So, it only makes sense that they have decided to release two collections of more foundational tracks from the rainforest or rainforest-adjacent areas of the country. Instead, Buh has exposed a country that has boundless experimentation on par with anything from Europe or the states.Īlrededor de la Húmisha: La música de los conjuntos típicos amazónicos de Perú by Varios Alrededor de la Húmisha: La música de los conjuntos típicos amazónicos de Perú by Varios A visit to the label’s bandcamp page unearths treasures, and expands knowledge of the country’s music beyond more well-known (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) collections of Amazonian Chicha or coastal Afro-Latin rhythms found on various compilations.
They’ve dropped archival recordings by radical composers such as Miguel Flores and Arturo Ruiz de Pozo, noisy-free rock by Liquidarlo Celuloide, and more contemporary tracks by Berlin-based Peruvian born artist Ale Hop. L ima, Peru-based experimental label Buh Records has been releasing reminders of the massive, multi-cultural, geographically astounding South American country’s vast experimental music scene for the better part of the last 20 years. La música de los Kechwas Lamistas: Recordings of native communities of Lamasīoth titles on Buh Records (Review by Bruce Miller
Alrededor de la Húmisha: The music of the traditional Amazonian ensembles from Perú
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