CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Thirsty for Chicha (Music)?

Cultural phenomena streak through popular consciousness like meteorites. There's a significant, even life-changing, impact made somewhere, but for many it's only a moment that flickers by, soon to be swallowed back into the cosmos. Chicha might have been like that. Instead, a once-obscure music that enjoyed a fanatic embrace in the Peruvian slums of the 1970s has become a full-fledged global occasion—thanks to the stunning success of a 2007 CD called The Roots of Chicha...

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