XINGU: CHILEAN HEAT

El Combo Xingu: Tanga Boo Gonk + Moby Dick (IRT, 196?, Xingu) Rock/funk album out of Chile. This was one of the first non-U.S. “holy grail” LPs I ever became aware of and sure, it only took me like…15+ years to cop one but better late than never. The back story behind this LP always sounded remarkable, maybe bordering on apocryphal: Chilean dictator Pinochet sought to repress any semblance of American cultural influence and thus purged the country of artists/albums like this [...]Co...

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