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Voice Of The Xtabay (CD)

By: Yma Sumac (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Voice Of The Xtabay (CD) Album By Yma Sumac (Artist)
1   Taita Inty :: Virgin Of The Sun God
2   Ataypura :: High Andes
3   Accla Taqui :: Chant Of The Chosen Maidens
4   Tumpa :: Earthquake
5   Choladas :: Dance Of The Moon Festival
6   Wayra :: Dance Of The Winds
7   Monos :: Monkeys
8   Xtabay :: Lure Of The Unknown Love
9   K'arawi :: Planting Song
10   Cumbe-Maita :: Calls Of The Andes
11   Wak'ai :: Cry
12   Incacho :: Royal Anthem
13   Chuncho :: Forest Creatures, The
14   Llulla Mak'ta :: Andean Don Juan
15   Malaya! :: My Destiny
16   Ripui :: Farewell
 
Review

Q (10/95, p.148) - 3 Stars - Good - "...fascinating from first to last..."

Title Note

2 LPS on 1 CD: VOICE OF THE XTABAY (1950)/INCA TAQUL.

Personnel includes: Yma Sumac (vocals); Les Baxter, Moises Vivanco (arranger, conductor).

Exotica began here in this historic 1950 meeting between the Peruvian "princess" Yma Sumac and Hollywood arranger Les Baxter. Neither Inca royalty nor a Bronx girl named Amy Camus as counter-legend had it, Sumac was raised an upper middle class Peruvian, but gifted with an uncanny multi-octave range. With such a powerful instrument at his disposable, the imaginatively resourceful Baxter proceeded to patch together musical bits and pieces from around the globe--gamelon orchestra, all manner of modal scales, ethnic percussion, impressionistic strings--into a fantasy concoction that has stayed surprisingly fresh after a half a century.

There probably isn't anything here that wasn't first heard in Rimsky-Korsakov or Debussy, not to mention Max Steiner whose path-finding score for KING KONG remains the talisman for pop musical journeys to the unknown. Still, Baxter is a skillful orchestrator, especially of strings, and Sumac herself never falters in her tricky wordless improvisations. It was super kitschy stuff at the time and remains so, but retains a certain musical integrity, even timelessness, much like the stone god that hovers scowling above our ersatz princess on the famous album cover.

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