Yma Sumac - The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection
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Artist: Yma SumacEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-06
Music Label: The Right Stuff
Soundtracks:
- Taita Inty (Virgin of the Sun God)
- Najala's Lament
- Ataypura (High Andes)
- Bo Mambo
- Kuyawa (Inca Love Song)
- Tumpa (Earthquake)
- Taki Rari
- Chuncho (The Forest Creatures)
- Monos (Monkeys)
- Suray Surita
- Wanka (The Seven Winds)
- Negrito Filomino [#]
- Huayno [#]
- Inca Waltz [#]
- Babalu
- Wimoweh
- Xtabay (Lure of the Unknown Love)
- Molina
- Llora Corazon
- Pampa y la Puna
- Virgenes del Sol
Music reviews of The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection
Music Review: One of the wonders of Peru
Rating: 5 Stars
We took an extraordinary trip to Peru last year, and I did a great deal of reading and other research about that complex and fascinating country. I knew a tiny bit about Yma Sumac through "The New York Times Crossword Puzzle", of course; all three of those letters (and sometimes all eight) are worth their weight in gold to constructors in a tight spot.
By chance, I learned that Sumac was from Peru, and was lucky enough to find a copy of this CD. Her voice was amazing -- an extraordinarily wide vocal range of more than four octaves, from a low baritone to above the range of an ordinary soprano. Both low and high extremes can be heard on this album in "Chuncho" (The Forest Creatures) (1999 Digital Remaster), and the song can also be down loaded alone as an MP3.
This collection has excellent fidelity, and many of the songs have deep roots in Peru and especially in the Andes. It is a great introduction to the "Peruvian Songbird", who died today.
Robert C. Ross 2008
Description of The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection
In 1950, at the dawn of an era of musical exotica (in which composers such as Esquivel, Martin Denny, and Les Baxter would test the limits of hi-fi strangeness), Yma Sumac entered the scene. She was a diva from the Andes with a four-vocal octave range, an unrelenting trill, and great looks, and she became an overnight sensation. Within years of her debut LP, Voice of the Xtabay, Sumac recorded more concept albums, starred in a Broadway musical (Flahooley), and appeared onscreen with Charlton Heston in 1954's Secret of the Incas. Truth be told, exotica music's popularity was short-lived (only to resurface again with the '90s lounge culture), and many would claim Yma Sumac was merely American housewife Amy Camus spelling her name backwards. No matter. This is still great, hilarious music unlike any other. With composer-husband Moises Vivanco, Sumac created a hybrid jazz, mambo, and world music that was the perfect showpiece for her vocal pyrotechnics. She scats, she trills, she bellows, but--mostly--she entertains. This disc collects Sumac's very best works, three unreleased tracks (worth hearing for the opening to "Negrito Filomino"), and extensive liner notes. --Jason VerlindeGeneral CDs
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