Today I'm listening to sixties and seventies Peruvian rock music scene and trust me, it's an astonishing treat as well as an enormous find. You may already be familiar with Los Saicos who in many ways were one of the original garage punk bands and who I've already written about on here but they are by no means the whole story.
A small window of cultural opportunity opened to the country in Lima most obviously for a few years in the mid to late sixties and countless musicians seized upon it.
'Nearly two decades of pro-U.S. governments had opened the borders to imports. For the country's small but culturally influential middle and upper class youth, this meant steady access not only to the recordings and imagery of the rock revolution happening abroad but to the musical technology as well. Lima's rock scene had an air of youthful, naive ebullience. There were scores of local bands performing and recording across a variety of styles.'
Here is Los Holy's 1968 album Sueno Psicodelico to prove the case. I've posted the whole of it for your listening pleasure. It has to be said, it's something of a genius record. An instrumental album that never stops surprising and delighting which sounds pitched somewhere between The Shadows and Sun Ra. Perhaps that's a rather outlandish claim but just listen to it. It's certainly music for the stars. No track is quite the same as the one which came before. They slip in a snippet of classical chamber music at one point, psychedelic surf, futuristic easy listening moves, a splash of theremin the next. I imagine there's no way of getting your hands on an original copy except by heading down to Lima. Never mind. Put headphones on and click the link above! For more
Holys Moley!
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