Chocolate
Peru's Master Percussionist
"Peru's Master Percussionist" collects recordings made in 1990 in Las Vegas, during a trip that the artist made as a
member of Peruvian jazz group Perujazz. The album was produced by the Englishman J. Blue Sheppard and released in 1991
by the New York-based label Lyrichord. It also includes a track originally recorded and published in Lima, in 1984. This
reissue on Buh Records presents the material in remastered form and, for the first time ever, in a vinyl edition.
"Peru's Master Percussionist" combines festejo rhythms, of Afro-Peruvian origin, with the polyrhythms of the Santeria
rituals of Haiti and Cuba. Using congas, kalimbas, seeds and cajon, Chocolate embarks on a journey towards the original
Yoruba sounds, of African roots. The cajon (a percussion instrument representative of Afro-Peruvian culture) is
incorporated into the hypnotic, trance-inducing rhythmic repetitions that Chocolate generates.
In the end, Perujazz makes an appearance with a discharge of avant-garde jazz, in a culminating moment, to close a
creative and exceptional circle, which at the same time is the perfect summary of a career that led Chocolate to move in
the heart of Afro-Peruvian culture and on the edges of the avant-garde jazz.
This album is a masterpiece that presents Chocolate in the fullness of his virtues as a master percussionist, as a
musician who transcended all classification, who inspired many and whose creative impulse has found its place in an area
where Afro-Peruvian culture, Santeria and the avant-garde converge.
"Peru's Master Percussionist" inaugurates series of "Perspectives on Afro-Peruvian Music. The Collection" which will
begin to reveal some of the best-kept secrets of black rhythms of Peru.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
29-03-2019
Label
Item-nr
525046
EAN
2212392821349
Availability
In stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
UN NINO EN TIEMPO (3:38)
2
CONGA FORTE, RICO CAJON (14:26)
3
ANI-ANI MANOLA (15:07)
4
UN TYCH (5:19)