| Various Artists / Rough Guide Latin Psychedelia |
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| Album: | Rough Guide Latin Psychedelia | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | 02/2013 | |
| Label: | World Music Network | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-03-02 | Pull Date: | 2013-05-05 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 5 May | 28 Apr | 21 Apr | 14 Apr | 7 Apr | 31 Mar | 17 Mar | 10 Mar |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 02, 2014: | KZSU Top 100 of 2013 Baila Mi Rumbita | 4. | Apr 22, 2013: | "no way to say" 0012 Piratas En El Titicaca | |
| 2. | May 02, 2013: | Catharsis La Pelea Del Gobernador | 5. | Apr 20, 2013: | Uncle Steve's Dance Party Dame Un Tipi | |
| 3. | Apr 25, 2013: | The Sunset Life Onsta La Yerbita | 6. | Apr 16, 2013: | A Global Warming Sunshine In the Afternoon En El Temblor |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2013-02-21 | ||
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Rough Guide to Latin Psych Reviewed by Sadie O., 2/21/13 Mostly 60’s and 70’s Latin Psych, from Nuyorican to South American. Most of the first half of CD 1 is from Latin explants in the US, after that it’s mostly Peruvian. Peru, eh? Who knew? Every track is terrific – your favorites might be different from mine. CD 1: 1. 3:16 ***loungy mambo with vibes, rock ‘n’ roll vocals in English. 2. 3:34 ***soul vocals in English, swingy cha-cha groove, manic laughter. Drug-related lyrics. 3. 3:13 **basically Cuban son, until it’s time for the guitar solo – yikes! Fuzzilicious! 4. 3:40 ****awesome Latin funk, great Latin percussion, totally stoned horn section. 5. 3:21 ***sweet swingy Latin soul, fine singing, playing and production – from OHIO? 6. 3:17 ***definitely schooled at the feet of Santana – very complex, uptempo percussion, with plenty of psych in the guitar and keyboards. Mostly a psych jam! 7. 4:02 ***funky swing with lots of rat-a-tat on the snare, farfisa, very sweet norteno-style harmonies. Groovy horns, only a hint of psych mostly, but a lot of jam. 8. 3:10 **groovy swingy son with major fuzz. Instrumental. 9. 3:38 ****sweet, soulful funky groove, pretty harmonies in Spanish. Offshoot of Antibalas and Grupo Fantasma. Nice stuff – great for burning trees… 10. 2:23 ***cumbia! Very stoned, with lots of wah wah. Female bandleader from Columbia. Wah wah wah wah wah… 11. 2:47 ****nice! Upbeat with lots of percussion, apparently a Peruvian-style version of a Barcelonan hit. Dribbly guitar bits, farfisa. 12. 3:28 ****fuzz-rock from Peru, driving guitar and freaky horns. Changes to a nice fuzzy cumbia, garage-rock vocals, then into a psych jam. 13. 3:30 ****WAH WAH guitar, relaxed cumbia jam with Santana feel to the guitar. Goes all laid-back psychedelic soul a bit, then back to jam. 14. 3:56 ***very downbeat hazy fuzzy psych mambo, pretty vocals, garage-y. 15. 4:34 ****slow cha cha, garage-rock vocals in English, plenty of fuzzy guitar, extremely prog-psych flute solo. 16. 2:48 ***slow cumbia, swingy and fuzzy, a bit proggy. Definite Santana influence. 17. 5:24 ***goats. Goats? After quite a bit of goats, a sort of low-key freaky crawl, then hard-driving funky something, with a bit of Tull-ish flute, and a bit of Os Mutantes. Interesting. Bird calls for a bit… Huh! 18. 3:19 *****wah wah farfisa (my life is fulfilled now!), deeply druggy psych. Processed vocals in English. Ends with squeebles. CD 2: 1. 6:16 *****wah wah and heavily accented English announcement – pretty bizarre, looooong intro, then midtempo loungey rock with extremely fuzzy guitar solo. Psych, alright! Santana tinge. 2. 3:24 ***echo-y plinks, uptempo instrumental swing with fuzz guitar. 3. 3:25 ****cha cha with echo and a fair amount of drugs (and a bit of surf…) Odd. 4. 2:32 ****boogaloo with big drums, large chorus, Cuban sound. Cool percussion. 5. 3:19 ***goofy spoken intro and squeals, wobbly downbeat surf-garage-rock. 6. 3:55 ****sweet uptempo cover of a Latin classic. Not real psych, but fun. 7. 5:11 ***pretty, folky, uptempo son, with lots of echo. Electronic “flute” ending. 8. 2:53 ****uptempo folksy cumbia-bop with wah wah wah wah wah wah wah. 9. 3:11 *****very fast mambo with wah wah and percussion and lots of stuff. 10. 3:25 ****fast cumbia, lots of guitar. Not deeply psych, but nice. 11. 3:15 ***fast mambo with a bit of relaxed feel, gnarly guitar solo. 12. 3:18 ***uptempo cumbia with lots of guitar solo and percussion. 13. 3:26 ****mellow midtempo cumbia with tremolo and sweet male vocals. | ||
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