First, we congratulate the producer on this report on the Psychedelic Amazonian Cumbia. Secondly, we respect everything detailed in this documentary, but we don't share the opinion regarding Los Mirlos. It is true that we made two cover songs of our musical brothers of Los Wemblers, where the copyright is respected. And doing a cover isn't a bad thing because they both benefit in their copyright and performer's rights. But it's also true that the first members contributed with emblematic and instrumental songs, such as: - "La Danza de Los Mirlos" from Gilberto Reátegui, considered as the cumbia of America and not mentioned in this report. And we currently have our documentary of the same name: ruclips.net/video/5M0uL8-OZD0/видео.html. Others such as El Milagro Verde, Lamento en la Selva, El Sonido de Los Mirlos, El Escape, El Poder Verde, Eres Mentirosa, etc. Also, don't mention the international success of our group, since we were the pioneers in taking the Amazonian Cumbia abroad since 1978 through our musical productions on vinyl and festival presentations abroad since 1980. Los Mirlos is a group that spreads music and culture of Peruvian Amazon, with the sound of their guitars that give it identity and personality, which is the reason for its existence, about to turn 50 years old. A brand that has positioned itself in the national and international market, making a difference among the others. Congratulations and greetings from Perú.
As a Peruvian born in Lima, it's astonishing to hear an english video talk about peruvian history and its music, it's like im watching my country through totally different lens, thank you!
I was halfway through the video and paused it to listen to Los Destellos. Just one track. It was like 2 hours ago and I am still down the Peruvian music rabbit hole. Cheers mate, you make me love music even more.
Estoy profundamente agradecido que un extranjero se haya tomado el tiempo de hacer una breve historia de la cumbia Peruana , ya que se merecen un reconocimiento por tan magnifico trabajo y talento , pioneros en usar guitarras eléctricas y darle su propia interpretación , estoy complacido
As an American, I feel enlightened! I never even suspected that such great music was happening in Peru! This only makes me want to visit Peru even more than before!
I'm totally impressed by the fact that an English speaker is interested in Peruvian music and made a long video talking about Amazonian cumbia. Such a great job, man!❣
Im glad! Id never know about any of this. We may have access to most information but in the US people don't stray to far from American related stuff. This was cool
THIS IS SOME GRINGO BULLSHIT. Yes, but that video is a lie because these gringos believe that all the cultures of other countries revolve around what they create. The cultures of Peru belong to Peruvians, we have created one of the first six original civilizations in human history, cumbia is an Indigenous and African music genre, we don't need to copy from nobody, especially from colonizers, give me a break.
I am a NewZealander of British descent. About a decade ago I watched a film called El Violin. There was a scene in a bar where the soundtrack featured music. I was so intrigued by the music I searched it and found it was by an artist Cuauhtémoc Tavira, and was a Cumbia. I found a whole new kind of music I like just from that one little scene.
Omg as a Méxican i got into Peruvian cumbia last year and I’m so glad there is a video talking about that time, psychedelic cumbia is the best mixture of music and on top of that each band has their own flavor. My favorite artists are Mily with pintura roja, los shapis, grupo néctar, súper grupo and many more!!! I wish I experienced those tracks at those times 💜
Yes, Pintura Roja, such a distinctive sound. This kind of music is still the soundtrack to a lot of life here in Peru. I didn't know the psychadelic roots, having lived here only a decade or so.
I am Mexican American and I too got into Peruvian cumbia a few years back mostly by accident (randomly listening to stations on Pandora) and I’ve been in love with it since. Los Shapis are one of my faves tooo!
I think it's so cool that showed that map of LATAM with it's musical genres and crossed off only one as a tribute to its immense diversity and variety. Really much appreciated. As a Panamanian that now lives in a middle eastern country, I really feel that Latin America is an exemplary region of the world and even a hope for mankind in so many ways. Most media focus on its economic failures, but it is a region that so many races and religions co-exist in a way that is seldomly seen elsewhere. Not to mention the beauty of the natural environment.
As a Peruvian from Lima, I thank you very much for your contribution telling the story of this genre and such a interesting facts I did not know. You made me feel so proud! What Enrique wanted is play rock and rock but with a different touch and his contribution influenced this genre. This music was marginal, I remember this clearly when I was was kid, it was shameful to listen to this music, not played on the radio or by middle class people, but later, it suddenly became widely listened by people of all classes (including the upper class) in the last 10 years thanks to bands like Bareto, La Nueva Invasion, Cumbia All Stars and many others who brought the genre to the spot again. This made Juaneco, Destellos, Mirlos and other old school bands to reunite and play again, and they are listened and appreciated by new generations in Peru today. A topic you could explore as well is the artwork of the marketing posters in fluorescent and colorful themes developed by Elliot Tupac that became symbolic our culture.
As a Peruvian from Lima, I would like to say thanks for this video! Very cool and needed tour of Peruvian Cumbia!! I love Los Destellos, Los Ecos, Los Wemblers, Juaneco and Chacalon!! One comment expanding some of what is being said in this video (not a correction, because we all understand the time-constraints the author faces) is the description of the meaning of the term ¨chicha¨ beyond the music (which is not that accurate): ¨it (Chicha) meant shabby homes and low skilled jobs, as well as clothing and cuisine associated with lower class migrant life¨. We Peruvians mostly do not use the word ¨Chicha¨ to refer to clothing, food, or low class homes. Most of the andean migrants arrived in Lima with nothing. They did not have the means to rent a place in the city. And so, they started to build very humble houses, made of straws, in the outskirts of Lima, where there was no drinkable water, no electricity and no water drains. They were literally moving into dusty plains where there was nothing before. That is how one of the biggest districts of Lima started ¨Villa El Salvador¨. They were brave and courageous people. That is why they used to say: ¨Cuando Chacalón canta, los cerros bajan (When Chacalon sings, the hills come down)¨ because most of the people living in very tough conditions on those dusty hills in the outskirts of Lima were andean migrants and many, if not all, of them were devoted fans of Chacalon and would go down to the city to see Chacalon. Coming back to the term ¨chicha¨. Surely, Chicha is a specific andean drink. But in Lima, at that time, that meaning got overshadowed very fast. In the early 80s,¨Chicha¨was strongly associated with this music and to the people that listened to this music, the andean migrants that came to Lima. There is no doubt that there was a big wave of racism against these migrants, there was a twisted process of ¨othering¨ them, coming from the middle and high socio-economic classes that were already living in Lima. These people felt threatened with the massive arrival of the Andean migrants. Very soon, these migrants who did not manage to find jobs in Lima, due to racism, language issues (they spoke mostly quechua) and also lack of jobs, started to create their own jobs. They started to sell everything in the streets of Lima. They sold anything from candy, water, clothes, food, etc. They also started to rent mini vans to transport people, as a sort of informal bus system. And little by little, they started their own businesses providing other types of services. All that became a sort of informal economic system that was not seen with good eyes by the middle and high classes of Lima, who saw this movement with a hidden anger. They criticized this informal economic activity, they saw it as chaotic and lacking any organization. Somehow, the middle and high classes of Lima felt that these migrants had ruined their city (Nevermind, the city was not in such a great shape anyway, and the migrants actually renewed the city and brought their rich legacy to the cultural melting pot of the capital.) So, since these people sort of hated what the migrants represented and one of the strongest words associated with the migrants was ¨Chicha¨ (due to the music), these middle and high classes started to attach to the word ¨chicha´, everything that they believed was wrong with the migrants. And it became an adjective that described everything that, for them, was wrong with the migrants. It became a sort of derogatory adjective to refer to anything that was done in a sort of cheap way, put together fast, that lacked organization, that lacked quality, that lacked class. Surely, these people did not listen to Chicha, and if at that time or even in the 2000s, .you listened to Chicha in a middle class neighborhood of Lima, they would ¨other¨ you, they would see you as less, as a member of a lower class. Some examples:¨tren chicha¨(referring to the Lima train that was built on the cheap), ¨presupuesto chicha¨ (referring to a budget put together overnight), ¨parlamentario chicha¨( a senate member who changes his political party affiliation like changing his underwear) ¨partido politico chicha¨ ( a political party that has no tradition or history and that was created a week before the elections), or even ¨colores chicha¨ (colors that are not harmonious but rather intense, and contrasting), ¨diario chicha¨ (a newspaper that has no standard for journalism and that can create fake headlines or twist the truth just to sell). Happily, nowadays, the meaning of Chicha is mostly, if not solely, musical and that is great!! And as somebody commented below, thanks to Bareto, La Nueva Invasion and other bands, Peruvian Cumbia and, somehow, Chicha have started to become accepted and embraced by the middle and high classes of Peru. Although not fully, there are people from Peru who still see Chicha as the music of the lower classes. I remember playing ¨El Arbolito¨ from ¨Grupo Nectar¨ in a Peruvian marriage a few years ago, and they got so mad that they almost threw me out of the party...I don´t want to imagine what would have happened if I would have played my next song which was ¨Mi Dolor¨ from Chacalón. LOL Lima is much better now thanks to those brave migrants that came to the capital and stay, despite all the rejection and lack of support. As with many stories of migration, the cultural legacy they left in that melting process was priceless, they gifted us with psychedelic cumbia and chicha!!!
Well, that was a tremendous explanation, I have known this genre as “Chicha” without understanding the additional social connotations, I love the term for the genre; however, as a social pejorative adjective, I’d say this is sort of like “tacky” for English equivalency.
La cumbia Peruana tiene es un genero completamente diferente, las guitarras, la persecución, lo mejor le pudo haber pasado a la Argentina fue tener esa influencia musical de nuestros hermanos peruanos, con grupos como, grupo nectar, grupo karicia, grupo ciclon, los mirlos, y muchos mas que vinieron a la Argentina y formaron un lindo vinculo entre Peruanos y Argentinos.
Pretty amazing video. As a Salvadoran/Mexican American, who grew up stateside to Cumbia, I found this deeper dive into Psychedelic Rock, Cumbia and Chicha extremely fascinating. Saludos!
This is a great crash course in Peruvian Cumbia! The genre came into my life in 2020 when I was "stuck" in Iquitos for 6 months during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown and first found Los Wemblers and spanned out from there. It's been a long-time desire of mine to put together something similar to this documentary, but now I can just share this video with all my friends to educate them on my musical obsession. Viva La Cumbia Peruana!
This research is sooo good, as a Peruvian, I'm so grateful for this. One of the most know psychedelic chichas is Guajira Sicodelica - Los Destellos. People were trying to figure out how they made those effects since delay or flanger weren't invented yet. Turned out they used a 12 string guitar.
😮 THIS IS SOME GRINGO BULLSHIT. Yes, but that video is a lie because these gringos believe that all the cultures of other countries revolve around what they create. The cultures of Peru belong to Peruvians, we have created one of the first six original civilizations in human history, cumbia is an Indigenous and African music genre, we don't need to copy from nobody, especially from colonizers, give me a break.
This video is something wonderful! As a peruvian and musician it really brought tears to my eyes seeing the level of accuracy and detail of your research and that you also put in context important parts of our recent history and social conditions. Thanks a lot man, muy buen contenido! 🇵🇪
Being from Argentina and having listened mainly to cumbia villera (a very different and interesting sub-genre too!) I remember how crazy it was to discover cumbia peruana, it felt so vintage and trippy. Thanks for doing such a serious and dedicated job when covering music and culture from abroad. You manage very well to avoid "exoticism" and stereotypes that are sometimes sported by anglosphere creators when discussing foreign topics in which politics and history are inevitably involved. This channel is truly great!
Modern cumbia is Peruvian and spread throughout all of Latin America, not even salsa is played in all of Latin America, only in the Caribbean and cumbia is played throughout Latin America. Amazing.
Born and raised in Belém, Pará, Brasil, hometown of Carimbó and Lambada. These guys are HEROES there and oft played by lambada bands along with other latin-dance mainstays. The electric guitar never went out of fashion -- it's a dance instrument, first and foremost, and improvising while reading and interacting with the dancefloor's vibe is a must. Belém has the peculiarity of vibing more with the andes/amazon/caribbean than anywhere else in Brasil.
Buen documental, solo creo que faltó una de las piezas claves en la psicodelia que es la cumbia. "Onsta la yerbita" del grandísimo Enrique Delgado. 7 minutos de guitarras y desenfreno psicodélico
Hi bandsplaining ....here from Perú Thanks for a great vídeo and sharing this music from Perú...fantastic bands in the 60s70s... Peace and love from PERU
There was a psychedelic rock/metal peruan band in the 70s called Tarkus, it was a little experimental too. I don't know if it have anything to do with cumbia but I think they were cool.
@@Angel.T-340 We All Together is a continuation of Laghonia, a progressive rock band, which itself is a continuation of New Juggler Sound, which was a psychedelic/garage band.
Chicha (Peruvian Cumbia) is one of the most amazing music genres in the world! ✨ Thank you for this video, world needs to know this beautiful music!
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En 21 min de este video aprendí más de las raíces y evolución de una rama de la música popular peruana que en mis 25 años de práctica musical profesional. Felicitaciones!!
@@Ulexcool amigo, prefiero enfocarme en la *responsabilidad* en lugar de la *culpa*. Con responsabilidad se resuelven los problemas y generamos aprendizajes de ellos. Por el contrario la culpa es castigadora, vengativa y persecutoria. No resuelve nada. Que seas feliz 🤗
Hola Hernán; debo comentarte que si bien se agradece que este canal se haya tomado el tiempo de analizar el fenómeno de la cumbia peruana; también es cierto que la base de lo que se propala en el análisis musical desde el punto de vista histórico es lo que se piensa como la influencia de la cumbia colombiana en el mundo, en nuestro caso el Perú y su influencia en nuestra sociedad a tal punto que la adoptamos y adaptamos a nuestra cultura, dando nacimiento a la llamada cumbia peruana; es decir a partir de la cumbia colombiana de donde la cumbia como tal es originaria; y es precisamente allí donde radica el principal error de este reportaje; la cumbia peruana nace en las costas peruana a inicios de los 60s como consecuencia de la influencia cubana, con ritmos tales como la guaracha, el son montuno, el guaguancó, el danzón, el bongaloo; etc; que se bailaba mucho y eran muy populares en el Perú de la época; a ello se agregó el rock, con ritmos tales como el gogó y el surf; a ello le sumaron ritmos peruanos tales como la música negra, criolla, etc; estamos hablando del nacimiento de la mal llamada cumbia peruana, un ritmo nacido en el Perú producto de la fusión de ritmos foráneos y autóctonos; la influencia de la cumbia colombiana seria ya mas tardía; en su evolución; Saludos
Wonderful rendition of one of the many music genres of Peruvian folklore. As a Peruvian I have no words of how to express my appreciation for this video, through the photos as well historical footage shown here, you have taken many Peruvians way back, I am sure of that, thank you! FYI “vacilando” does not mean “floating” it means “partying “ or “having a great time” however because it is referring to Ayahuasca maybe so 😂
Hace años que busco un video asi! Siempre fui cumbiero y e experimentado y tocado varios subgeneros de la Cumbia. La Cumbia Psicodelica Peruana es legendario; Combina los elementos selvaticos de las culturas Indigenas y la modernidad del rock psicodelico. Enrique Delgado fue unos de los grandes maestros y compositores de la Chicha Peruana. Viva la Chicha, perdida en el tiempo. Viva Latinoamerica!
You missed Grupo Néctar (I love EL ARBOLITO!!!) but thanks for mentioning Rossywar and Los Ecos (Tres cruces is such a BOP)!!! I'm Mexican-Peruvian and I ABSOLUTELY love this music genre, its so vibrant and gives me so much energy!!! Thank you so much for this video. This summer I went to Perú to visit my family and I played Juaneco at the cemetery because it was my uncle's favorite band. 🤗
Bro, this is amazing. This year I just started listening to cumbias from this time period, because Im learning spanish and love this sound. Destellos is one of my favorites. Now here you are, making an amazing documentary of the genre. You could not have come at a more perfect time. MUCHAS GRACIAS
En SERIO ?? Woaw ..! Eres de Colombia ? aquí en Perú también todavía se escucha Cumbia(es decir la Colombiana)de las antiguas, las de origen. Gracias por aportarnos tanto, Colombia. La Salsa Colombiana también es TESORO ! increíble cómo lograron todo eso con la Salsa.
This is so awesome 💕 I'm from México and around these parts bus drivers blast remixes of psychedelic cumbia (in a micro genre we call sonidero), and I'd never stopped to think about the history of that music ♥️ This is just wonderful. Muchas gracias💕
Thanks for commenting! I'm in Mexico right now on vacation and just heard "Sonido Amazonico" while sitting at a coffee shop. Made me realize this music isn't quite underground 😂, but I'm glad you can still appreciate hearing the history
I'm peruvian, and i have to tell that Ayahuasca isn't a drug as they say in this video. Is a master plant used by our shaman ancestors, is an entheogen similar to San Pedro, it doesn't create a pleasant state, it isn't either addictive, it takes you to a hard inner revelation to subconscious, but this only if you're chosen by the spirit of the plant, otherwise you'll only get to threw it up... On the other hand, thankyou so much for the interest in investigate and post about our beautiful and magical music, as soon as you hear cumbia or chicha.. it's hard to avoid start dancing ccc:
As a peruvian I got to say you are stating misticism as a fact. Ayahuasca has hallucinogen components, just because it isn't addictive it doesn't mean it isn't a drug.
@@jochenliberato278 yeah, also I have taken San Pedro and it definitely produces a pleasant state and it is definitely a drug by the scientific definition, although obviously it is completely different to drugs of abuse like cocaine or pasta basica
@@jochenliberato278 a caffeine is a drug. DMT technically is the drug if isolated. Ayahuasca technically contains DMT as well as other chemical constituents. Though, culturally we do not refer to it as a “drug” because it is not used recreationally. It is also culturally sensitive because of spiritual practices, it is used as a medicine for illnesses.
@Jochen Liberato is not a recreational drug, this tea is taken during Amazonian ceremonies with shamans, not something you can find at your local dealer. It makes you nauseous in the process so nothing to look forward to. Is purpose is ceremonial / religious, not our fault colonizers have bastardised it.
For anyone interested in further bands, I believe Chacalon’s Amazonian equivalent was Ranil, a working class legend from the Amazonian city of Iquitos. I don’t know much further about him but his album Ranil’s Jungle Party is an absolute classic of the genre. If there are any Peruvians who can comment further on this, I would love to hear your knowledge!
Thank you for making this! Chicha/Cumbia has been some of my favorite music of all time since I first heard it around 10 years ago. Peru has produced better psychedelic music than what we got here in the states, IMO. If you want to hear something that is a little more of the folky side of psychedelic, but still 100% peruvian, look up the band, El Polen. .. ..They're amazing. PS; I fkn love your channel
HI! First, thank you for all the job well done in this video. I am a Peruvian, from the highlands, born in the 60s' in a city very close where Los Shapis started. It is a warm feeling coming into my soul seeing this respectful way to study and show others our modern music, the one that I grown along. Music is part of everyone's life and society's history. Thank you!
GRAN APORTE Y RECONOCIMIENTO ALOS MÚSICOS Y CREADORES PERUANOS, PAÍS BENDITO POR SU MULTICULTURALIDAD, EH AHÍ SU RIQUEZA CULTURAL, MUSICAL, GASTRONÓMICA, ETC...!!
Todo país es Multicultural. Imagina China que es 10veces más grande en tamaño tiene infinidad de dialectos, música y culturas. En países MÁS PEQUEÑOS QUE Perú como Alemania también hay diversidad de culturas. Italia que es minúscula no es lo mismo el Norte Italiano que el Sur Italiano. TODO PAÍS DEL MUNDO ES multi-diverso.
Thank you for making this video. Years ago, I would visit the record store Amoeba Music. I would pick out a record I liked and a random record, one of those was The Roots of Chicha. It completely blew my mind. The more I heard it, the more I loved it. Soon I recommended it to all my music enthusiast friends and they also adopted it into their personal preference. This video taught me a lot about the people, the genre and I can even see reflections about myself and who I am. Chicha is such an underrated genre and these musicians named in the video are all geniuses. They changed the world and created many influences that we listen to in today’s modern music, and it’s beautiful to see that you took the time to pay respects to them by teaching us more about them. Keep up the good work, subscribing immediately.
Im a daughter of a Peruvian and Chilean. Whenever I hear the cumbia beat, I have to dance. I love it so much that I perform it too! Im planning to add a Huaynito to my set list (which includes some Mirlos).
Daughter of Peruvian and Chilean here too! Totally obsessed with dancing to alll cumbia beats. If you have a public channel or Insta do share it plz :D
Los Wemblers came to DC before the pandemic. I went to see them in Adams Morgan and danced the night away reminiscing my childhood in the outskirts of Lima. I can't believe that some of his members didn't survive the pandemic. This is tragic.
Incredibly informative, as always! I would never have found so many interesting details about such obscure music genres. I guess the amount of research to make such an episode is astounding. Your channel is a truly gold mine for everyone who appreciates music in any of its manifestations, Jeremy.
Amazing documentary! Some years ago I really got into Peruvian Cumbia and chicha and always wondered at some of the origins of this music having so many great songs and albums from that era, great work!
Una de las principales características por las que se reconoce musicalmente a la cumbia peruana es en especial, el uso de la guitarra eléctrica y efectos de fuzztone como parte esencial del ritmo, también el uso muy común del pedal Wah-wah, que se ha mantenido hasta la actualidad desde que fuera escuchada casi por primera vez en la agrupación Los Destellos de Enrique Delgado, y su tema «La ardillita» para Discos Odeón en 1968. El tipo de ejecución sobre la guitarra eléctrica es de un estilo ya definido por el folclore particular del país de utilizar tonos altos de requinto (solo de guitarra)y por lo regular consiste de al menos una guitarra y hasta incluso tres, este tipo de composición es muy común en la mayoría de las agrupaciones peruanas con dos requintos (derivados de las arpas y guitarras ahuaynadas del Perú). El fuzztone (deformación eléctrica del sonido de cuerdas) y el solo son muy característicos de la cumbia peruana. La ejecución de la guitarra eléctrica en la cumbia peruana difiere de las hechas en México, Colombia y Argentina en el sentido de que la digitación sobre ese instrumento es distinta, mientras en los países mencionados los rasgueos sobre el instrumento son hacia abajo, los rasgueos en la guitarra de cumbia peruana son por lo regular rasgueos hacia arriba, o abajo o combinación de estas dos técnicas, derivadas de la digitación hecha en el huayno y la música criolla. Debido a que desde entonces las rítmicas y estilo en el uso de la guitarra eléctrica han seguido una pauta muy particular de estilo peruano siendo un instrumento protagonista mayoritariamente en las diversas variantes de la cumbia peruana, y a que se ha mantenido hasta la actualidad sin cambios como interpretación clásica. Para descubrir, la cumbia peruana, se puede, "sin vacilar", comenzar con estas 3 recopilaciones, con grupos variados pero también dominantes de la escena de esta época dorada : The Roots of Chicha - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru (Vol. 1) The Roots of Chicha Vol. 2 - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru, que es mas un disco de "Chicha" verdadera Cumbias Chichadélicas : Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha
I stumbled into this video by accident, but since I lived 40 years in South and Central America I thought I'd at least give a listen and enjoy the music I learned to appreciate over the years. Frankly, I was surprised -- very pleasantly so! -- at the depth of your research and the clarity of your narrative. You reminded me of some of the sights and sounds I experienced acquiring a new language and becoming multi-cultural. Thank you for your hard work producing these 21 minutes...I know the results took you many, many hours to create!
Great vid, been getting into more South American 60s stuff since I saw a video focused on Los Saicos a few months ago that sparked my interest and greatly expanded the variety of South American music I listen to, this cumbia stuff is excellent. Two additional great cumbia tracks are Cumbia de sal by Cumbia En Moog and Ritmo de Tambo by La Sonora Dinamita, Lucho Argain for anyone searching for more.
As a Chilean, it's wild to me that people don't know cumbia, is such a cultural mark here. As you mentioned, cumbia has had many variations from its Colombian roots, and here in Chile I would say the most noticeable difference lies in a big Bolero influence and the frequent use of accordions in the songs, also widely used in our traditional folk music Cueca, thanks to German and Croatian immigration during the 19th century. I recommend to anyone interested in the genre to listen to Chico Trujillo, La Sonora Palacios and La Sonora de Tommy Rey, those are the best and most influential cumbia bands in the country. Great video!
In the Netherlands/Europe music from Africa and South America is considered "World music" and people who don't actively seek out "World music" will know nothing about it.
I’m Ecuadorian, Growing up I’ve heard so many of the songs you talked about but I never knew about how dee the lore was for that genre. I moved to The US when I was a kid and got really into rock from the 60’s and 80’s. Knowing that in south America there was a psychedelic Cumbia scene is mind blowing!! Thank you so much for this video!!
COngratualetions for the excelent documentary for the english speaking audance, I am impressed that this topic came to this channel's radar since they are not a Peruvian or latin amercan channel. Great Job!
Thank you thank you thank you! Your video encapsulates everything I've been listening to the las t5 years and I thought I was the only one! Born in Peru and now in the US 50 yrs you've completed me.
Its trippy ... normally held on popular marginal districts, high on cheap alcohol and emotions as people tend to know each other as they share jobs, houses and so, can get violent, smells like sweat, tears and vomit, a mess of tumbling people about to pass after 4am. Its Its too intense for a reserved person like me, but you can see some of these people need to vent out and this is how they do. Some might be say i am generalizing... To those PCs: Fck off. Truly Psicodelic Cumbia doesnt happen on nice neighborhoods.
Aún mucha gente se resiste a decir CHICHA a este género tan exitoso que lograron los Destellos... Enrique Delgado Montes.. el creador tocó en muchas agrupaciones de Huayno, Vals y era un gran Rockero.... La fusión de estas melodías Más la Cumbia nació la CHICHA... Gracias por estudiar nuestra cultura 👏👏🙏🙏💪💪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
Musica tropical se refiere a los tropicos ( zona. CAliENte ) y zonas. CAlientes hay en todo el mundo pero la ethno zona de la fusion cumbia se llama CHICHA.
I first heard pysch cumbia on a cassette comp many years ago. In the last year or so I have been really, really digging it. I will never not love cumbia! My favorites are Los Destellos, Chacalón and Los Ecos! Ranil is great too. There are some great Colombian cumbia acts as well, which I'm learning more about.
Thank you 🙏🏻 for this excellent video. I am so happy people value our Cumbia from Peru.. I’m glad to see that young people from other countries value and love our music. Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇵🇪
one of my favorite genres ever, almost impossible to dislike. i just found out there is one band that plays this music in my city! it’s so much fun to dance to at a club
I would love it if you go over the list of genres, especially in Venezuela where we had Joropo merged with big band Jazz and orchestral music during the "Nueva Onda" movement led by Aldemaro Romero. Also, Gaita, which was merged with funk, disco, and eventually even fusion jazz by the group "Guaco", which is known as "La super banda de Venezuela" created a whole sound and genre on their own over the last 50+ years. As much as I love all these great stories, I would love to know more about the rest of these less known artists, genres, and movements from Latin America, and it's even more interesting watching it from an outside perspective.
Thanks for the history lesson and all the old videos and photos. I am From America but live in Cambodia and here was the same kind of thing in the 60s .it must have been world wide at that time.
Thanks a lot for.the video. I think u need part 2. Los destellos - Onsta la yerbita it's the greatest psychedelic cumbia peruvian song. Also some on "Traffic Sound - Meshkalina " Greetings. I hope to see part 2 🥺☺️☺️
Que gran documental estoy muy sorprendido de la dedicación que se le ha dado, Perú país de múltiples culturas, gente de afuera la aprecia, gente del propio país las ignora, junto con el estado a nivel de todas las instituciones, Tenemos oro y no sabemos que hacer con el.
ah, Chicha! it's so much fun! sometimes i like to call it switched-on Morricone. i wonder if they used electric guitars instead of the usual brass sections out of necessity: at least in Chile, bands like Viking 5 did that, their sound came out from emulating brass on guitars. BTW, where i come from, "techno-cumbia" is called Saund (or Sound). great video as usual, nice to see you went hunting for bits and bobs from Peruvian media!
To he who did research and produce this video: I congratulate you. Thank you for being someone from far away who loves and appreciates stuff from this continent and presents it to English speakers. I am a musician and composer residing in Bolivia; and I am from Australia. I produce 2 genres; Musica Folklorica Boliviana (bolivian folk) and electronic landscape music not otherwise classified by genre; did you know that in Bolivia the many different genres of music (particularly rural/indigenous) are so numerous that no single person can simultaneously know of the existence of them all? So few people know of anything of these wonderful things in Latin America. Thank you for sharing.
Thank youuu for sharing this in this format. You explained it sooo well! I have Peruvian blood on my dad’s side, but he wasn’t into cumbia or chicha or anything like that. But then I went to Peru in 2017 and listened to "Cariñito" accidentally on a bus, and that something got in me! That was the beginning of my obsession with all of these genres 🥹🥹❤️❤️
Saludos, Peruvian here raised in NYC. I've always listened to Cumbia since I was very young. Last year I went to sightsee in Mexico City, I went to a popular Taco restaurant called "Cariñito", didn't think too much of the name, but after speaking to the owner out of luck, he mentioned that he loved Peruvian Cumbia and named his place after the Song. I was elated and happily surprised.
Bandpslaining is our generations Lomax. Bringing a whole new world of music to audiences that may have never otherwise ventured into the more obscure corners of music. I fucking love this channel so much.
Los Hijos Del Sol brought me here, I’ve been digging for more of this music and specific sound, cause it’s frigging sick, nice to get some insight into the history of its beginnings!
I appreciate the Latin American music map at the end of the video (20:48). I wasn't familiar with the music genres of Ecuador prior to this video. When I searched "Pasillos Ecuatorianos" here on RUclips, a couple Julio Jaramillo playlists appeared in the suggestions. My grandmother loved his music. She passed away a few years ago, so I've associated that sound with her memory. Now that I know the genre, I can check out more songs and artists, as well as the other genres of Ecuador!
@@javierbustamante5696 you should check Novos Baianos too! They're great and also collaborate with Caetano. Search for "Baiano e os Novos Caetanos" and you'll find it!
Asi!! I’m American and worked in the Amazon oil fields from 81 through 86, spent two years in Iquitos and pucallpa. Los Continentales and El Quarteto Continental were thing. Chicha. I loved that they played El Aguajal in the video. From Poco a Poco to the Piura music scene- Grupo 5 and Corazon Serrano and dozens of others. I love it all though I’ve been told by Chilean friends it’s rubbish and you can hear it in all the kitchens of the better houses is Santiago, because that’s what the Peruvian maids want to hear.
Chileans should be happy for the contribution to their musical culture by the Peruvian migration, now it is with gastronomy, Américo who is Chile only sings PERUVIAN songs from group 5 and other Peruvian groups. well, but they always think they are Europeans.
Fantastic channel, so glad to have found it. I knew the Peruvian Cumbia (they also had some interesting Salsa in those times) but had no idea about its history. Thanks. Greetings from Chile.
Peru’s cumbia now is sort a mix of techno and the psychedelic/jungle cumbia. They use smooth guitar mixed with synthetic sounds and added brass. It sounds amazing, and its one of my favorite cumbias sub genres.
great video. my peruvian father played a ton of chacalon, enrique delgado, and jueneco when i was growing up. my favorite that you didnt mention is vico, who is another chicha artist very much in a similar vein to chacalon. his song “noche” is probably the best cumbia song imo
Thanks for taking the time for making this video. This video is brilliant! The summary was impressive and the level of details simply blew my mind. The origins of psychedelic cumbia in Peru must be contextualised to appraise this genre. You described this context almost perfectly. Excellent job.
Para hablar hay que saber mucho de la historia de la cumbia peruana desde sus inicios, y esto se remonta desde la década de los año sesenta.. La cumbia peruana nace de los barrios dé Lima, grupos como Compay Quinto, Los beta 5, Los Girasoles, Los Destellos, fueron innovadores de la cadencia y punteó de la guitarra electrica, aplicando de una y otra manera el Rock Sicodelico, cómo influencia. Por la década de los setenta siguen otros grupos como Los Ecos, El Grupo Celeste, los Mirlos, y muchos grupos qué hicieron de la cumbia evolucionarlo, incluyendo la chicha, combinación de la música andina y la cumbia, Chicha, es un término más despectivo, la cumbia peruana tiene de todas maneras sus influencias.. Hoy tenemos muchos grupos en el Norte Peruano. Agua Marina, Armonía 10, Grupo 5, y Corazón Serrano, con su cumbia San Juanera, y claro mucho otro grupos, que sean ganado los elogios y el reconocimiento de mucha gente siguen la cumbia peruana.
Thank you for making this video❤ Peru has a los of genres but my favorite it’s this psychodelic cumbia and huayno (thanks to my granpa an immigrant from the Andes) VIVA EL PERU CARAJO 🎉
First, we congratulate the producer on this report on the Psychedelic Amazonian Cumbia. Secondly, we respect everything detailed in this documentary, but we don't share the opinion regarding Los Mirlos. It is true that we made two cover songs of our musical brothers of Los Wemblers, where the copyright is respected. And doing a cover isn't a bad thing because they both benefit in their copyright and performer's rights. But it's also true that the first members contributed with emblematic and instrumental songs, such as:
- "La Danza de Los Mirlos" from Gilberto Reátegui, considered as the cumbia of America and not mentioned in this report. And we currently have our documentary of the same name: ruclips.net/video/5M0uL8-OZD0/видео.html. Others such as El Milagro Verde, Lamento en la Selva, El Sonido de Los Mirlos, El Escape, El Poder Verde, Eres Mentirosa, etc.
Also, don't mention the international success of our group, since we were the pioneers in taking the Amazonian Cumbia abroad since 1978 through our musical productions on vinyl and festival presentations abroad since 1980. Los Mirlos is a group that spreads music and culture of Peruvian Amazon, with the sound of their guitars that give it identity and personality, which is the reason for its existence, about to turn 50 years old. A brand that has positioned itself in the national and international market, making a difference among the others.
Congratulations and greetings from Perú.
Los Mirlos is one of my favorite bands ever! I tried to travel to one of your gigs in the US but couldn't make it. I hope you tour the States again 🙂
AGUANTE CARAJOOOO. QUE ORGULLO PTM
It's an honor to have you comment, thanks for watching and dropping in!
Todo el respeto. aguanten los mirlos!
Here un argentina Los Mirlos are by far the most popular peruvian group
As a Peruvian born in Lima, it's astonishing to hear an english video talk about peruvian history and its music, it's like im watching my country through totally different lens, thank you!
Yo vivo en California, and in one class in college they talk about Peruvian Cumbrian. I remembered they played “ the roots of chicha”
agreed! I was mindblown at all the history behind it!!
I was halfway through the video and paused it to listen to Los Destellos. Just one track. It was like 2 hours ago and I am still down the Peruvian music rabbit hole. Cheers mate, you make me love music even more.
check out los bitches !!
You should listen to "Los Mirlos" and "Juaneco y su Combo" two of the most representative bands of Peruvian Cumbia
Rico's Listen also Meshkalina from TRAFFIC SOUND ! That song is from other universe !
That’s exactly how it works
Estoy profundamente agradecido que un extranjero se haya tomado el tiempo de hacer una breve historia de la cumbia Peruana , ya que se merecen un reconocimiento por tan magnifico trabajo y talento , pioneros en usar guitarras eléctricas y darle su propia interpretación , estoy complacido
Veste conche
Yo igual estoy muy agradecida
X3 :v
Igualmente yo.
As an American, I feel enlightened! I never even suspected that such great music was happening in Peru! This only makes me want to visit Peru even more than before!
I'm totally impressed by the fact that an English speaker is interested in Peruvian music and made a long video talking about Amazonian cumbia. Such a great job, man!❣
Im glad! Id never know about any of this. We may have access to most information but in the US people don't stray to far from American related stuff. This was cool
THIS IS SOME GRINGO BULLSHIT. Yes, but that video is a lie because these gringos believe that all the cultures of other countries revolve around what they create. The cultures of Peru belong to Peruvians, we have created one of the first six original civilizations in human history, cumbia is an Indigenous and African music genre, we don't need to copy from nobody, especially from colonizers, give me a break.
I am a NewZealander of British descent. About a decade ago I watched a film called El Violin. There was a scene in a bar where the soundtrack featured music. I was so intrigued by the music I searched it and found it was by an artist Cuauhtémoc Tavira, and was a Cumbia. I found a whole new kind of music I like just from that one little scene.
Are you referring to the film based in Tierra Caliente Guerrero Mexico? The tavira Brothers? Wondering if we're talking about the same film
Omg as a Méxican i got into Peruvian cumbia last year and I’m so glad there is a video talking about that time, psychedelic cumbia is the best mixture of music and on top of that each band has their own flavor. My favorite artists are Mily with pintura roja, los shapis, grupo néctar, súper grupo and many more!!! I wish I experienced those tracks at those times 💜
Yes, Pintura Roja, such a distinctive sound. This kind of music is still the soundtrack to a lot of life here in Peru. I didn't know the psychadelic roots, having lived here only a decade or so.
I am Mexican American and I too got into Peruvian cumbia a few years back mostly by accident (randomly listening to stations on Pandora) and I’ve been in love with it since. Los Shapis are one of my faves tooo!
Grupo naranja y los destellos tambien estan conmadre
Rip Mily :(
R.I.P. Milly 2023 😢
I think it's so cool that showed that map of LATAM with it's musical genres and crossed off only one as a tribute to its immense diversity and variety. Really much appreciated.
As a Panamanian that now lives in a middle eastern country, I really feel that Latin America is an exemplary region of the world and even a hope for mankind in so many ways.
Most media focus on its economic failures, but it is a region that so many races and religions co-exist in a way that is seldomly seen elsewhere. Not to mention the beauty of the natural environment.
As a Peruvian from Lima, I thank you very much for your contribution telling the story of this genre and such a interesting facts I did not know. You made me feel so proud! What Enrique wanted is play rock and rock but with a different touch and his contribution influenced this genre. This music was marginal, I remember this clearly when I was was kid, it was shameful to listen to this music, not played on the radio or by middle class people, but later, it suddenly became widely listened by people of all classes (including the upper class) in the last 10 years thanks to bands like Bareto, La Nueva Invasion, Cumbia All Stars and many others who brought the genre to the spot again. This made Juaneco, Destellos, Mirlos and other old school bands to reunite and play again, and they are listened and appreciated by new generations in Peru today. A topic you could explore as well is the artwork of the marketing posters in fluorescent and colorful themes developed by Elliot Tupac that became symbolic our culture.
I was just listening to The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru this morning. Such an underrated genre !
Los Mirlos did a US tour a few years ago. Hoping they come back.
Such a great album!
Chicha, that's the genre.
As a Peruvian from Lima, I would like to say thanks for this video! Very cool and needed tour of Peruvian Cumbia!! I love Los Destellos, Los Ecos, Los Wemblers, Juaneco and Chacalon!! One comment expanding some of what is being said in this video (not a correction, because we all understand the time-constraints the author faces) is the description of the meaning of the term ¨chicha¨ beyond the music (which is not that accurate): ¨it (Chicha) meant shabby homes and low skilled jobs, as well as clothing and cuisine associated with lower class migrant life¨. We Peruvians mostly do not use the word ¨Chicha¨ to refer to clothing, food, or low class homes.
Most of the andean migrants arrived in Lima with nothing. They did not have the means to rent a place in the city. And so, they started to build very humble houses, made of straws, in the outskirts of Lima, where there was no drinkable water, no electricity and no water drains. They were literally moving into dusty plains where there was nothing before. That is how one of the biggest districts of Lima started ¨Villa El Salvador¨. They were brave and courageous people.
That is why they used to say: ¨Cuando Chacalón canta, los cerros bajan (When Chacalon sings, the hills come down)¨ because most of the people living in very tough conditions on those dusty hills in the outskirts of Lima were andean migrants and many, if not all, of them were devoted fans of Chacalon and would go down to the city to see Chacalon.
Coming back to the term ¨chicha¨. Surely, Chicha is a specific andean drink. But in Lima, at that time, that meaning got overshadowed very fast. In the early 80s,¨Chicha¨was strongly associated with this music and to the people that listened to this music, the andean migrants that came to Lima. There is no doubt that there was a big wave of racism against these migrants, there was a twisted process of ¨othering¨ them, coming from the middle and high socio-economic classes that were already living in Lima. These people felt threatened with the massive arrival of the Andean migrants.
Very soon, these migrants who did not manage to find jobs in Lima, due to racism, language issues (they spoke mostly quechua) and also lack of jobs, started to create their own jobs. They started to sell everything in the streets of Lima. They sold anything from candy, water, clothes, food, etc. They also started to rent mini vans to transport people, as a sort of informal bus system. And little by little, they started their own businesses providing other types of services.
All that became a sort of informal economic system that was not seen with good eyes by the middle and high classes of Lima, who saw this movement with a hidden anger. They criticized this informal economic activity, they saw it as chaotic and lacking any organization. Somehow, the middle and high classes of Lima felt that these migrants had ruined their city (Nevermind, the city was not in such a great shape anyway, and the migrants actually renewed the city and brought their rich legacy to the cultural melting pot of the capital.)
So, since these people sort of hated what the migrants represented and one of the strongest words associated with the migrants was ¨Chicha¨ (due to the music), these middle and high classes started to attach to the word ¨chicha´, everything that they believed was wrong with the migrants. And it became an adjective that described everything that, for them, was wrong with the migrants. It became a sort of derogatory adjective to refer to anything that was done in a sort of cheap way, put together fast, that lacked organization, that lacked quality, that lacked class. Surely, these people did not listen to Chicha, and if at that time or even in the 2000s, .you listened to Chicha in a middle class neighborhood of Lima, they would ¨other¨ you, they would see you as less, as a member of a lower class.
Some examples:¨tren chicha¨(referring to the Lima train that was built on the cheap), ¨presupuesto chicha¨ (referring to a budget put together overnight), ¨parlamentario chicha¨( a senate member who changes his political party affiliation like changing his underwear) ¨partido politico chicha¨ ( a political party that has no tradition or history and that was created a week before the elections), or even ¨colores chicha¨ (colors that are not harmonious but rather intense, and contrasting), ¨diario chicha¨ (a newspaper that has no standard for journalism and that can create fake headlines or twist the truth just to sell).
Happily, nowadays, the meaning of Chicha is mostly, if not solely, musical and that is great!! And as somebody commented below, thanks to Bareto, La Nueva Invasion and other bands, Peruvian Cumbia and, somehow, Chicha have started to become accepted and embraced by the middle and high classes of Peru. Although not fully, there are people from Peru who still see Chicha as the music of the lower classes. I remember playing ¨El Arbolito¨ from ¨Grupo Nectar¨ in a Peruvian marriage a few years ago, and they got so mad that they almost threw me out of the party...I don´t want to imagine what would have happened if I would have played my next song which was ¨Mi Dolor¨ from Chacalón. LOL
Lima is much better now thanks to those brave migrants that came to the capital and stay, despite all the rejection and lack of support. As with many stories of migration, the cultural legacy they left in that melting process was priceless, they gifted us with psychedelic cumbia and chicha!!!
Thanks for writing all this extra context. It's very interesting!
Gran comentario, hermanno
Beautiful comment, thank you for this!
Well, that was a tremendous explanation, I have known this genre as “Chicha” without understanding the additional social connotations, I love the term for the genre; however, as a social pejorative adjective, I’d say this is sort of like “tacky” for English equivalency.
well said, gracias por educarme!! Creo que los limenos tenemos cultura gracias a todos los que emigraron y nos ensenaron de todo un poco.
Peru has an amazing culture, really makes you proud to be Peruvian
"La Danza de los Mirlos" a Peruvian Psychedelic Cumbia tune is nowadays a "Cumbia Standard"
Yes, Los Mirlos is such a great band! Listened a lot to them, so many great songs!
La cumbia Peruana tiene es un genero completamente diferente, las guitarras, la persecución, lo mejor le pudo haber pasado a la Argentina fue tener esa influencia musical de nuestros hermanos peruanos, con grupos como, grupo nectar, grupo karicia, grupo ciclon, los mirlos, y muchos mas que vinieron a la Argentina y formaron un lindo vinculo entre Peruanos y Argentinos.
Pretty amazing video. As a Salvadoran/Mexican American, who grew up stateside to Cumbia, I found this deeper dive into Psychedelic Rock, Cumbia and Chicha extremely fascinating. Saludos!
This is a great crash course in Peruvian Cumbia! The genre came into my life in 2020 when I was "stuck" in Iquitos for 6 months during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown and first found Los Wemblers and spanned out from there. It's been a long-time desire of mine to put together something similar to this documentary, but now I can just share this video with all my friends to educate them on my musical obsession. Viva La Cumbia Peruana!
This research is sooo good, as a Peruvian, I'm so grateful for this. One of the most know psychedelic chichas is Guajira Sicodelica - Los Destellos. People were trying to figure out how they made those effects since delay or flanger weren't invented yet. Turned out they used a 12 string guitar.
Soy rockeraza, a morir.....
Pero la guitarra cumbiambera peruana es otro levelll !!!
😮 THIS IS SOME GRINGO BULLSHIT. Yes, but that video is a lie because these gringos believe that all the cultures of other countries revolve around what they create. The cultures of Peru belong to Peruvians, we have created one of the first six original civilizations in human history, cumbia is an Indigenous and African music genre, we don't need to copy from nobody, especially from colonizers, give me a break.
This video is something wonderful! As a peruvian and musician it really brought tears to my eyes seeing the level of accuracy and detail of your research and that you also put in context important parts of our recent history and social conditions. Thanks a lot man, muy buen contenido! 🇵🇪
Cumbia peruana, que gran esfuerzo por entender esta variante y propia línea musical. GRACIAS!
Being from Argentina and having listened mainly to cumbia villera (a very different and interesting sub-genre too!) I remember how crazy it was to discover cumbia peruana, it felt so vintage and trippy.
Thanks for doing such a serious and dedicated job when covering music and culture from abroad. You manage very well to avoid "exoticism" and stereotypes that are sometimes sported by anglosphere creators when discussing foreign topics in which politics and history are inevitably involved. This channel is truly great!
Yo conocí gracias a la versión de Damas Gratis de La danza de los mirlos.
Gran mezcla de cumbiasss
Hay mucha cumbia muy buena, pero hay mucha basura también sobretodo desde que apareció la cumbia villera.
Modern cumbia is Peruvian and spread throughout all of Latin America, not even salsa is played in all of Latin America, only in the Caribbean and cumbia is played throughout Latin America. Amazing.
@@ejc8017 qué decir, para mí la cumbia villera es una música increíble y un signo de los tiempos en los que surgió
La cumbia villera vendría a ser como el punk de la cumbia (de jóvenes desclasasos, antisistema, antipolicia)
Born and raised in Belém, Pará, Brasil, hometown of Carimbó and Lambada. These guys are HEROES there and oft played by lambada bands along with other latin-dance mainstays. The electric guitar never went out of fashion -- it's a dance instrument, first and foremost, and improvising while reading and interacting with the dancefloor's vibe is a must. Belém has the peculiarity of vibing more with the andes/amazon/caribbean than anywhere else in Brasil.
Buen documental, solo creo que faltó una de las piezas claves en la psicodelia que es la cumbia. "Onsta la yerbita" del grandísimo Enrique Delgado. 7 minutos de guitarras y desenfreno psicodélico
Y Guajira Sicodelica
como peruano puedo decir que este es un documental excelente sobre la musica peruana .
I found Peruvian cumbia a few years ago and was lucky enough to find a compilation of popular songs on vinyl! Glad I came across this video!
Hi bandsplaining ....here from Perú
Thanks for a great vídeo and sharing this music from Perú...fantastic bands in the 60s70s... Peace and love from PERU
There was a psychedelic rock/metal peruan band in the 70s called Tarkus, it was a little experimental too. I don't know if it have anything to do with cumbia but I think they were cool.
Foda dimais. El pirata
_I recommend other great Peruvian rock bands:_
- Traffic Sound
- Pax
- We All Together
- Frágil
@@Angel.T-340 We All Together is a continuation of Laghonia, a progressive rock band, which itself is a continuation of New Juggler Sound, which was a psychedelic/garage band.
Tarkus es creo, el primer grupo de rock metal en español de LATAM. PAX fue primera en inglés.
Chicha (Peruvian Cumbia) is one of the most amazing music genres in the world! ✨ Thank you for this video, world needs to know this beautiful music!
En 21 min de este video aprendí más de las raíces y evolución de una rama de la música popular peruana que en mis 25 años de práctica musical profesional. Felicitaciones!!
Y de quien es la culpa amigo...?
@@Ulexcool amigo, prefiero enfocarme en la *responsabilidad* en lugar de la *culpa*. Con responsabilidad se resuelven los problemas y generamos aprendizajes de ellos. Por el contrario la culpa es castigadora, vengativa y persecutoria. No resuelve nada. Que seas feliz 🤗
Hola Hernán; debo comentarte que si bien se agradece que este canal se haya tomado el tiempo de analizar el fenómeno de la cumbia peruana; también es cierto que la base de lo que se propala en el análisis musical desde el punto de vista histórico es lo que se piensa como la influencia de la cumbia colombiana en el mundo, en nuestro caso el Perú y su influencia en nuestra sociedad a tal punto que la adoptamos y adaptamos a nuestra cultura, dando nacimiento a la llamada cumbia peruana; es decir a partir de la cumbia colombiana de donde la cumbia como tal es originaria; y es precisamente allí donde radica el principal error de este reportaje; la cumbia peruana nace en las costas peruana a inicios de los 60s como consecuencia de la influencia cubana, con ritmos tales como la guaracha, el son montuno, el guaguancó, el danzón, el bongaloo; etc; que se bailaba mucho y eran muy populares en el Perú de la época; a ello se agregó el rock, con ritmos tales como el gogó y el surf; a ello le sumaron ritmos peruanos tales como la música negra, criolla, etc; estamos hablando del nacimiento de la mal llamada cumbia peruana, un ritmo nacido en el Perú producto de la fusión de ritmos foráneos y autóctonos; la influencia de la cumbia colombiana seria ya mas tardía; en su evolución; Saludos
Wonderful rendition of one of the many music genres of Peruvian folklore. As a Peruvian I have no words of how to express my appreciation for this video, through the photos as well historical footage shown here, you have taken many Peruvians way back, I am sure of that, thank you! FYI “vacilando” does not mean “floating” it means “partying “ or “having a great time” however because it is referring to Ayahuasca maybe so 😂
Hace años que busco un video asi! Siempre fui cumbiero y e experimentado y tocado varios subgeneros de la Cumbia. La Cumbia Psicodelica Peruana es legendario; Combina los elementos selvaticos de las culturas Indigenas y la modernidad del rock psicodelico. Enrique Delgado fue unos de los grandes maestros y compositores de la Chicha Peruana. Viva la Chicha, perdida en el tiempo. Viva Latinoamerica!
You missed Grupo Néctar (I love EL ARBOLITO!!!) but thanks for mentioning Rossywar and Los Ecos (Tres cruces is such a BOP)!!!
I'm Mexican-Peruvian and I ABSOLUTELY love this music genre, its so vibrant and gives me so much energy!!! Thank you so much for this video. This summer I went to Perú to visit my family and I played Juaneco at the cemetery because it was my uncle's favorite band. 🤗
El Arbolito de Néctar es la vergüenza de la cumbia peruana, es una canción horrible y kitsch
Bro, this is amazing. This year I just started listening to cumbias from this time period, because Im learning spanish and love this sound. Destellos is one of my favorites. Now here you are, making an amazing documentary of the genre. You could not have come at a more perfect time. MUCHAS GRACIAS
Due to the great influence of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia, the genre spread out in Colombia with a group called Afro sound. Must hear it.
En SERIO ?? Woaw ..! Eres de Colombia ? aquí en Perú también todavía se escucha Cumbia(es decir la Colombiana)de las antiguas, las de origen. Gracias por aportarnos tanto, Colombia. La Salsa Colombiana también es TESORO ! increíble cómo lograron todo eso con la Salsa.
AFROSOUND es el grupo
Emocionado de ver en este documental a la pastorita Huaracina...❤❤❤❤
This is so awesome 💕 I'm from México and around these parts bus drivers blast remixes of psychedelic cumbia (in a micro genre we call sonidero), and I'd never stopped to think about the history of that music ♥️ This is just wonderful. Muchas gracias💕
Thanks for commenting! I'm in Mexico right now on vacation and just heard "Sonido Amazonico" while sitting at a coffee shop. Made me realize this music isn't quite underground 😂, but I'm glad you can still appreciate hearing the history
@@Bandsplaining now I’d like to learn more about how Mexico developed its own version of cumbia it’s kind of unclear
I hope he do tribal next, and not only because of the boots
Pues por acá (Mèxico) sòlo se escucha puro narcocorrido, el sonidero prácticamente no se escucha, al menos por aquì.
@@Bandsplaining Mexico also birthed their answer to mixing house dub and cumbia: Tribál
I'm peruvian, and i have to tell that Ayahuasca isn't a drug as they say in this video. Is a master plant used by our shaman ancestors, is an entheogen similar to San Pedro, it doesn't create a pleasant state, it isn't either addictive, it takes you to a hard inner revelation to subconscious, but this only if you're chosen by the spirit of the plant, otherwise you'll only get to threw it up...
On the other hand, thankyou so much for the interest in investigate and post about our beautiful and magical music, as soon as you hear cumbia or chicha.. it's hard to avoid start dancing ccc:
As a peruvian I got to say you are stating misticism as a fact. Ayahuasca has hallucinogen components, just because it isn't addictive it doesn't mean it isn't a drug.
@@jochenliberato278 yeah, also I have taken San Pedro and it definitely produces a pleasant state and it is definitely a drug by the scientific definition, although obviously it is completely different to drugs of abuse like cocaine or pasta basica
@@jochenliberato278 a caffeine is a drug. DMT technically is the drug if isolated. Ayahuasca technically contains DMT as well as other chemical constituents. Though, culturally we do not refer to it as a “drug” because it is not used recreationally. It is also culturally sensitive because of spiritual practices, it is used as a medicine for illnesses.
@Jochen Liberato is not a recreational drug, this tea is taken during Amazonian ceremonies with shamans, not something you can find at your local dealer. It makes you nauseous in the process so nothing to look forward to. Is purpose is ceremonial / religious, not our fault colonizers have bastardised it.
For anyone interested in further bands, I believe Chacalon’s Amazonian equivalent was Ranil, a working class legend from the Amazonian city of Iquitos. I don’t know much further about him but his album Ranil’s Jungle Party is an absolute classic of the genre. If there are any Peruvians who can comment further on this, I would love to hear your knowledge!
Que discazo!!!!!
Ingesting musical info, but an embarrassing display of sociological and political ignorance
That's a masterpiece mate.
Thank you for making this! Chicha/Cumbia has been some of my favorite music of all time since I first heard it around 10 years ago. Peru has produced better psychedelic music than what we got here in the states, IMO. If you want to hear something that is a little more of the folky side of psychedelic, but still 100% peruvian, look up the band, El Polen. .. ..They're amazing.
PS; I fkn love your channel
HI! First, thank you for all the job well done in this video. I am a Peruvian, from the highlands, born in the 60s' in a city very close where Los Shapis started. It is a warm feeling coming into my soul seeing this respectful way to study and show others our modern music, the one that I grown along. Music is part of everyone's life and society's history. Thank you!
GRAN APORTE Y RECONOCIMIENTO ALOS MÚSICOS Y CREADORES PERUANOS, PAÍS BENDITO POR SU MULTICULTURALIDAD, EH AHÍ SU RIQUEZA CULTURAL, MUSICAL, GASTRONÓMICA, ETC...!!
Todo país es Multicultural. Imagina China que es 10veces más grande en tamaño tiene infinidad de dialectos, música y culturas. En países MÁS PEQUEÑOS QUE Perú como Alemania también hay diversidad de culturas. Italia que es minúscula no es lo mismo el Norte Italiano que el Sur Italiano. TODO PAÍS DEL MUNDO ES multi-diverso.
Thank you for making this video.
Years ago, I would visit the record store Amoeba Music. I would pick out a record I liked and a random record, one of those was The Roots of Chicha.
It completely blew my mind. The more I heard it, the more I loved it. Soon I recommended it to all my music enthusiast friends and they also adopted it into their personal preference.
This video taught me a lot about the people, the genre and I can even see reflections about myself and who I am. Chicha is such an underrated genre and these musicians named in the video are all geniuses. They changed the world and created many influences that we listen to in today’s modern music, and it’s beautiful to see that you took the time to pay respects to them by teaching us more about them.
Keep up the good work, subscribing immediately.
Beautiful video. Thank you for introducing me Los Destellos 🎶
Im a daughter of a Peruvian and Chilean. Whenever I hear the cumbia beat, I have to dance. I love it so much that I perform it too! Im planning to add a Huaynito to my set list (which includes some Mirlos).
Daughter of Peruvian and Chilean here too! Totally obsessed with dancing to alll cumbia beats. If you have a public channel or Insta do share it plz :D
Los Wemblers came to DC before the pandemic. I went to see them in Adams Morgan and danced the night away reminiscing my childhood in the outskirts of Lima. I can't believe that some of his members didn't survive the pandemic. This is tragic.
Saludos desde Colombia hermanos peruanos 👍
I was born in Lima into a migrant family and I am proud of having been risen with this music
Incredibly informative, as always! I would never have found so many interesting details about such obscure music genres. I guess the amount of research to make such an episode is astounding. Your channel is a truly gold mine for everyone who appreciates music in any of its manifestations, Jeremy.
Amazing documentary! Some years ago I really got into Peruvian Cumbia and chicha and always wondered at some of the origins of this music having so many great songs and albums from that era, great work!
Columbian Cumbia was quite popular in London in the 80s. Its great we can now discover the Peruvian sound, even though we are late to the party.
Una de las principales características por las que se reconoce musicalmente a la cumbia peruana es en especial, el uso de la guitarra eléctrica y efectos de fuzztone como parte esencial del ritmo, también el uso muy común del pedal Wah-wah, que se ha mantenido hasta la actualidad desde que fuera escuchada casi por primera vez en la agrupación Los Destellos de Enrique Delgado, y su tema «La ardillita» para Discos Odeón en 1968. El tipo de ejecución sobre la guitarra eléctrica es de un estilo ya definido por el folclore particular del país de utilizar tonos altos de requinto (solo de guitarra)y por lo regular consiste de al menos una guitarra y hasta incluso tres, este tipo de composición es muy común en la mayoría de las agrupaciones peruanas con dos requintos (derivados de las arpas y guitarras ahuaynadas del Perú).
El fuzztone (deformación eléctrica del sonido de cuerdas) y el solo son muy característicos de la cumbia peruana.
La ejecución de la guitarra eléctrica en la cumbia peruana difiere de las hechas en México, Colombia y Argentina en el sentido de que la digitación sobre ese instrumento es distinta, mientras en los países mencionados los rasgueos sobre el instrumento son hacia abajo, los rasgueos en la guitarra de cumbia peruana son por lo regular rasgueos hacia arriba, o abajo o combinación de estas dos técnicas, derivadas de la digitación hecha en el huayno y la música criolla.
Debido a que desde entonces las rítmicas y estilo en el uso de la guitarra eléctrica han seguido una pauta muy particular de estilo peruano siendo un instrumento protagonista mayoritariamente en las diversas variantes de la cumbia peruana, y a que se ha mantenido hasta la actualidad sin cambios como interpretación clásica.
Para descubrir, la cumbia peruana, se puede, "sin vacilar", comenzar con estas 3 recopilaciones, con grupos variados pero también dominantes de la escena de esta época dorada :
The Roots of Chicha - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru (Vol. 1)
The Roots of Chicha Vol. 2 - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru, que es mas un disco de "Chicha" verdadera
Cumbias Chichadélicas : Peruvian Psychedelic Chicha
Que genial comentario.
As an journalist, editor and cumbia drummer…this is outstanding 👏👏👏👏👏
Gracias a un gringo, que un mexicano (yo) conoce estas maravillosas bandas, estoy estupefacto!
I stumbled into this video by accident, but since I lived 40 years in South and Central America I thought I'd at least give a listen and enjoy the music I learned to appreciate over the years. Frankly, I was surprised -- very pleasantly so! -- at the depth of your research and the clarity of your narrative. You reminded me of some of the sights and sounds I experienced acquiring a new language and becoming multi-cultural. Thank you for your hard work producing these 21 minutes...I know the results took you many, many hours to create!
Thank you for the thoughtful comment!
Great vid, been getting into more South American 60s stuff since I saw a video focused on Los Saicos a few months ago that sparked my interest and greatly expanded the variety of South American music I listen to, this cumbia stuff is excellent.
Two additional great cumbia tracks are Cumbia de sal by Cumbia En Moog and Ritmo de Tambo by La Sonora Dinamita, Lucho Argain for anyone searching for more.
_I recommend other great Peruvian rock bands:_
- Traffic Sound
- Pax
- We All Together
- Frágil
As a Chilean, it's wild to me that people don't know cumbia, is such a cultural mark here. As you mentioned, cumbia has had many variations from its Colombian roots, and here in Chile I would say the most noticeable difference lies in a big Bolero influence and the frequent use of accordions in the songs, also widely used in our traditional folk music Cueca, thanks to German and Croatian immigration during the 19th century. I recommend to anyone interested in the genre to listen to Chico Trujillo, La Sonora Palacios and La Sonora de Tommy Rey, those are the best and most influential cumbia bands in the country. Great video!
In the Netherlands/Europe music from Africa and South America is considered "World music" and people who don't actively seek out "World music" will know nothing about it.
I do think people know about cumbia without realizing it for example with Selena
I always had an doubt, don't take it bad, but there's an chilenean/Spanish dictionary?
@Angel. wym yes we do
here to the south we teach the youth about it pretty often, i do wish the love for all of our cultures was more widespread trough the country.
Gracias por popularizar la música de vanguardia peruana de los 60's
20:47 Lols! Great Episode! Thoroughly Enjoyed. Paz,
I’m Ecuadorian, Growing up I’ve heard so many of the songs you talked about but I never knew about how dee the lore was for that genre. I moved to The US when I was a kid and got really into rock from the 60’s and 80’s. Knowing that in south America there was a psychedelic Cumbia scene is mind blowing!! Thank you so much for this video!!
COngratualetions for the excelent documentary for the english speaking audance, I am impressed that this topic came to this channel's radar since they are not a Peruvian or latin amercan channel. Great Job!
I am half Peruvian and I feel so much more connected to Peruvians through this video.
Thank you thank you thank you! Your video encapsulates everything I've been listening to the las t5 years and I thought I was the only one! Born in Peru and now in the US 50 yrs you've completed me.
Fuck, I can't imagine how wild a psychedelic cumbia concert would be
Its trippy ... normally held on popular marginal districts, high on cheap alcohol and emotions as people tend to know each other as they share jobs, houses and so, can get violent, smells like sweat, tears and vomit, a mess of tumbling people about to pass after 4am. Its Its too intense for a reserved person like me, but you can see some of these people need to vent out and this is how they do. Some might be say i am generalizing... To those PCs: Fck off. Truly Psicodelic Cumbia doesnt happen on nice neighborhoods.
Aún mucha gente se resiste a decir CHICHA a este género tan exitoso que lograron los Destellos...
Enrique Delgado Montes.. el creador tocó en muchas agrupaciones de Huayno, Vals y era un gran Rockero....
La fusión de estas melodías Más la Cumbia nació la CHICHA...
Gracias por estudiar nuestra cultura 👏👏🙏🙏💪💪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
No es chicha se conoce como música TROPICAL después viene chicha ,cumbia
Musica tropical se refiere a los tropicos ( zona. CAliENte ) y zonas. CAlientes hay en todo el mundo pero la ethno zona de la fusion cumbia se llama CHICHA.
I first heard pysch cumbia on a cassette comp many years ago. In the last year or so I have been really, really digging it. I will never not love cumbia! My favorites are Los Destellos, Chacalón and Los Ecos! Ranil is great too. There are some great Colombian cumbia acts as well, which I'm learning more about.
Thank you 🙏🏻 for this excellent video. I am so happy people value our Cumbia from Peru.. I’m glad to see that young people from other countries value and love our music. Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇵🇪
Finally found out who's been making those Los Pakines threads on /mu/
Great job!!! Peruvian music is great
one of my favorite genres ever, almost impossible to dislike. i just found out there is one band that plays this music in my city! it’s so much fun to dance to at a club
I would love it if you go over the list of genres, especially in Venezuela where we had Joropo merged with big band Jazz and orchestral music during the "Nueva Onda" movement led by Aldemaro Romero. Also, Gaita, which was merged with funk, disco, and eventually even fusion jazz by the group "Guaco", which is known as "La super banda de Venezuela" created a whole sound and genre on their own over the last 50+ years. As much as I love all these great stories, I would love to know more about the rest of these less known artists, genres, and movements from Latin America, and it's even more interesting watching it from an outside perspective.
Thanks for the history lesson and all the old videos and photos. I am From America but live in Cambodia and here was the same kind of thing in the 60s .it must have been world wide at that time.
Thanks a lot for.the video. I think u need part 2. Los destellos - Onsta la yerbita it's the greatest psychedelic cumbia peruvian song. Also some on "Traffic Sound - Meshkalina "
Greetings. I hope to see part 2 🥺☺️☺️
Que gran documental estoy muy sorprendido de la dedicación que se le ha dado, Perú país de múltiples culturas, gente de afuera la aprecia, gente del propio país las ignora, junto con el estado a nivel de todas las instituciones, Tenemos oro y no sabemos que hacer con el.
ah, Chicha! it's so much fun! sometimes i like to call it switched-on Morricone. i wonder if they used electric guitars instead of the usual brass sections out of necessity: at least in Chile, bands like Viking 5 did that, their sound came out from emulating brass on guitars. BTW, where i come from, "techno-cumbia" is called Saund (or Sound). great video as usual, nice to see you went hunting for bits and bobs from Peruvian media!
Escuchar a Los Destellos es lo mejor que me paso en la vida.
To he who did research and produce this video: I congratulate you. Thank you for being someone from far away who loves and appreciates stuff from this continent and presents it to English speakers. I am a musician and composer residing in Bolivia; and I am from Australia. I produce 2 genres; Musica Folklorica Boliviana (bolivian folk) and electronic landscape music not otherwise classified by genre; did you know that in Bolivia the many different genres of music (particularly rural/indigenous) are so numerous that no single person can simultaneously know of the existence of them all? So few people know of anything of these wonderful things in Latin America. Thank you for sharing.
Los reales cumbieros y músicos Chicheros en un video de un gran analista del arte musical mua perfcto
Thank youuu for sharing this in this format. You explained it sooo well! I have Peruvian blood on my dad’s side, but he wasn’t into cumbia or chicha or anything like that. But then I went to Peru in 2017 and listened to "Cariñito" accidentally on a bus, and that something got in me! That was the beginning of my obsession with all of these genres 🥹🥹❤️❤️
Saludos, Peruvian here raised in NYC. I've always listened to Cumbia since I was very young. Last year I went to sightsee in Mexico City, I went to a popular Taco restaurant called "Cariñito", didn't think too much of the name, but after speaking to the owner out of luck, he mentioned that he loved Peruvian Cumbia and named his place after the Song. I was elated and happily surprised.
@@castillo21j sooo cool! it really gets in your bones and soul 😳
Bro casually dropped one of the best videos i ever saw
Bandpslaining is our generations Lomax. Bringing a whole new world of music to audiences that may have never otherwise ventured into the more obscure corners of music. I fucking love this channel so much.
Love seeing all those 60s Japanese guitars. They are the coolest.
Been living in Michigan all my life and been a huge fan of Chicha and Cumbia for the last ten years.
What an awesome video,as a Peruvian I learned a lot, my favorite song is onsta la yerbita by Los Destellos.
Los Hijos Del Sol brought me here, I’ve been digging for more of this music and specific sound, cause it’s frigging sick, nice to get some insight into the history of its beginnings!
I appreciate the Latin American music map at the end of the video (20:48). I wasn't familiar with the music genres of Ecuador prior to this video. When I searched "Pasillos Ecuatorianos" here on RUclips, a couple Julio Jaramillo playlists appeared in the suggestions. My grandmother loved his music. She passed away a few years ago, so I've associated that sound with her memory. Now that I know the genre, I can check out more songs and artists, as well as the other genres of Ecuador!
You should add Tropicalia to Brazil list! Like Peruvian Cumbia it's our Psychedelic Rock inspired music.
Novos Baianos are the best thing ever invented
So much great joints from tropicalia
Tropicalia is just too good.
Thank you! I flipped over Caetano Veloso's Transa
@@javierbustamante5696 you should check Novos Baianos too! They're great and also collaborate with Caetano. Search for "Baiano e os Novos Caetanos" and you'll find it!
Asi!!
I’m American and worked in the Amazon oil fields from 81 through 86, spent two years in Iquitos and pucallpa. Los Continentales and El Quarteto Continental were thing. Chicha. I loved that they played El Aguajal in the video. From Poco a Poco to the Piura music scene- Grupo 5 and Corazon Serrano and dozens of others. I love it all though I’ve been told by Chilean friends it’s rubbish and you can hear it in all the kitchens of the better houses is Santiago, because that’s what the Peruvian maids want to hear.
Chileans should be happy for the contribution to their musical culture by the Peruvian migration, now it is with gastronomy, Américo who is Chile only sings PERUVIAN songs from group 5 and other Peruvian groups. well, but they always think they are Europeans.
Love this! Thanks for introducing me to some absolutely fantastic new music. Keep it coming!
No way, I’ve been loving Cumbias Chichadelicas for the last few months now!!’
Fantastic channel, so glad to have found it. I knew the Peruvian Cumbia (they also had some interesting Salsa in those times) but had no idea about its history. Thanks. Greetings from Chile.
Peru’s cumbia now is sort a mix of techno and the psychedelic/jungle cumbia. They use smooth guitar mixed with synthetic sounds and added brass. It sounds amazing, and its one of my favorite cumbias sub genres.
A very comprehensive cumbia history compilation, thank you dude! Greetings from Peru.
great video. my peruvian father played a ton of chacalon, enrique delgado, and jueneco when i was growing up. my favorite that you didnt mention is vico, who is another chicha artist very much in a similar vein to chacalon. his song “noche” is probably the best cumbia song imo
F@cken beautiful documentary!!! Grew up listening them and finally found a doc. in English. Thank you, much love
Your channel is amazing thank you
Thanks for taking the time for making this video. This video is brilliant! The summary was impressive and the level of details simply blew my mind. The origins of psychedelic cumbia in Peru must be contextualised to appraise this genre. You described this context almost perfectly. Excellent job.
I LOVE THESE GENRES! Thanks!!
dude, awesome video!!! I'm Peruvian, I grew up listening to some of this bands.
It's so great to see people sharing this beautiful music!
Para hablar hay que saber mucho de la historia de la cumbia peruana desde sus inicios, y esto se remonta desde la década de los año sesenta..
La cumbia peruana nace de los barrios dé Lima, grupos como Compay Quinto, Los beta 5, Los Girasoles, Los Destellos, fueron innovadores de la cadencia y punteó de la guitarra electrica, aplicando de una y otra manera el Rock Sicodelico, cómo influencia. Por la década de los setenta siguen otros grupos como Los Ecos, El Grupo Celeste, los Mirlos, y muchos grupos qué hicieron de la cumbia evolucionarlo, incluyendo la chicha, combinación de la música andina y la cumbia,
Chicha, es un término más despectivo, la cumbia peruana tiene de todas maneras sus influencias..
Hoy tenemos muchos grupos en el Norte Peruano. Agua Marina, Armonía 10, Grupo 5, y Corazón Serrano, con su cumbia San Juanera, y claro mucho otro grupos, que sean ganado los elogios y el reconocimiento de mucha gente siguen la cumbia peruana.
Thank you for making this video❤ Peru has a los of genres but my favorite it’s this psychodelic cumbia and huayno (thanks to my granpa an immigrant from the Andes) VIVA EL PERU CARAJO 🎉