mudd up!

Living in Spain you hear flamenco go — or get pushed — in a lot of directions. Few are as enticing as what I’ve been hearing in Peru, via this compilation.

Cecilia Barraza - Canterurias (Songs)

This is beautiful music & I need to know more about it, este criollismo, this Peruvian music that sounds more like sweet, lightly funky flamenco than anything “Afro-”. ¿Alan?

You can buy Afro-Peruvian Classics: Black Soul from Peru as mp3s from Calabash.

“Authentic fun from start to finish– though the last cut, a vanity item from producer David Byrne, is a bit off– his Spanish is… not comfortable.” Thus notes an accurate Amazon reviewer…

3 Canal - Mud Madness [video]

i learned about 3 Canal and their embrace of paint and mud via Word the Cat’s Dutty Artz post The Rag is the Water, and the addictively upbeat soca mix inside it, Word the Cat - Soca Exhaust. Heartbeats quicken as the family fattens up…