Chicha Libre
Sonido Amazonico

In several Andean countries, 'chicha' is an alcoholic drink made from fermented corn. In Peru, it’s also a style of music popularised in the late 1960...

Chicha Libre is an anomaly, a modern American band playing a kind of music that was popular among the working classes of northern Peru in the 1960s an...

The cover art—in fetching olive and red, with moustachioed bust of some venerable don—cries pastiche even before the first note sounds, but it still d...