Olivier Conan was doing what he always does when he discovered Peruvian "Chicha" music while vacationing in South America a few years ago: He was looking for new music that might change his life. What ...

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Olivier Conan grew up in Paris, but his musical passion is Latin. He plays a small South American guitar, called a cuatro, in a Brooklyn-based band called Chicha Libre. The group started out paying ...

Dormant for about 30 years, Peru’s chicha music — a hybrid sound popular in the 1960s and 1970s that blends Andean and cumbia rhythms, among others, with psychedelic effects — is experiencing a global ...

Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek phrase that they think listeners will understand, and it offends instead. On May 8, freelance reporter Banning Eyre reviewed the new album by a ...

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