Traditional Music of Peru 4: Lambayeque.

• Author: Holston, Mark

Traditional Music of Peru S: Cajamarca and the Colca Valley (Smithsonian SF CD 40468)

Since 1948 Smithsonian Folkways has undertaken the task of documenting the music of many of the world's most remote cultures. These two extensively annotated collections, produced in collaboration with the Archives of Traditional Andean Music of the Riva-Aguero Institute of the Catholic University of Peru, transport the listener directly to the source of styles that have been refined and polished to a lustrous aural sheen by the kind of professional, international-level musicianship demonstrated on Andean Legacy.

Plaintive vocals, dissonant wind instruments, and cacophonous percussion resonate with humble conviction throughout the sixty-nine tracks on these companion albums...