Track Listing

1. Taita Inty (Virgin Of The Sun God)
2. Najala's Lament
3. Ataypura (High Andes)
4. Bo Mambo
5. Kuyaway (Inca Love Song)
6. Tumpa (Earthquake)
7. Taki Rari
8. Chuncho (The Forest Creatures)
9. Monos (Monkeys)
10. Suray Surita
11. Wanka (The Seven Winds)
12. Negrito Filomino
13. Huayno
14. Inca Waltz
15. Babalu
16. Wimoweh
17. Xtabay (Lure Of The Unknown Love)
18. La Molina
19. Llora Corazon
20. La Pampa Y La Puna
21. Virgenes Del Sol

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40078 in Music
• Released on: 2010-06-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

From Amazon.com
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 Verlinde

Chronique amazon.fr
Ses disques moisirent dans les bacs des soldeurs au rayon exotica puis dans ceux de l'easy listening avant qu'elle ne soit redécouverte, rééditée, et étiquetée world. Erreur grossière : "incredibly strange music" serait plus exact pour définir l'univers de cette princesse descendant d'Atahualpa, dernier empereur Inca, et l'impressionnante virtuosité de sa voix couvrant cinq octaves. Si l'on a pu dire d'un instrument comme le Theremin qu'il imitait la voix humaine, celle d'Yma Sumac évoque on ne sait quel instrument étrange. Les ambiances de ses disques rappellent la jungle d'Ellington, les processions de Sun Ra, Oum Kalsoum, la Callas ou Mahalia Jackson sur "Black, Brown And Beige". The Ultimate Yma Sumac compile le meilleur (Mambo, Legend Of The Jivaro, Voice Of Xtabay) de celle que Diamanda Galas et Nina Hagen revendiquent comme influence majeure. Curieux et envoûtant. --Philippe Robert