Yma Sumac - The Very Best of (2008)

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. --Jason Verlinde

Tracklist:
1-1 Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo [3:21]
1-2 Yma Sumac - La Molina [3:27]
1-3 Yma Sumac - Carnavalito Boliviano [2:07]
1-4 Yma Sumac - Taki Rari [1:51]
1-5 Yma Sumac - Chicken Talk [3:04]
1-6 Yma Sumac - Huayno [2:52]
1-7 Yma Sumac - Five Bottles Mambo [2:48]
1-8 Yma Sumac - Gopher [2:17]
1-9 Yma Sumac - Kon Tiki [3:09]
1-10 Yma Sumac - Montana [3:41]
1-11 Yma Sumac - Karibe Taki [3:05]
1-12 Yma Sumac - Indian Carnival [2:06]
1-13 Yma Sumac - Kuyaway (Inca Love Song) [2:45]
1-14 Yma Sumac - Zana [2:03]
1-15 Yma Sumac - Tumpa (Earthquake) [3:20]
1-16 Yma Sumac - Inca Waltz [3:11]
1-17 Yma Sumac - La Pampa Y La Puna [3:09]
1-18 Yma Sumac - Babalu [2:50]
1-19 Yma Sumac - Ataypura (High Andes) [3:04]
1-20 Yma Sumac - Wanka (The Seven Winds) [3:05]
1-21 Yma Sumac - Monos (Monkeys) [2:41]
1-22 Yma Sumac - Negrito Filomino [2:16]
1-23 Yma Sumac - Taita Inty (Virgin Of The Sun God) [3:07]
1-24 Yma Sumac - Goomba Boomba [4:14]
1-25 Yma Sumac - Cha Cha Gitano [3:53]
1-26 Yma Sumac - Xtabay (Lure Of The Unknown Love) [3:20]
1-27 Yma Sumac - Wimoweh [2:41]
1-28 Yma Sumac - Najala's Lament [3:17]
1-29 Yma Sumac - Lament [3:18]
1-30 Yma Sumac - Suray Surita [3:19]
1-31 Yma Sumac - Llora Corazon [3:01]
1-32 Yma Sumac - Mamallay! [3:00]
1-33 Yma Sumac - Witallia! (Fire In The Andes) [2:23]
1-34 Yma Sumac - Ccori Canastitay [2:21]
1-35 Yma Sumac - Jungla [2:23]
1-36 Yma Sumac - Virgenes Del Sol [2:50]
1-37 Yma Sumac - Panarima [3:27]
1-38 Yma Sumac - Malambo No. 1 [2:57]
1-39 Yma Sumac - Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) [3:40]
1-40 Yma Sumac - No Es Vida [2:22]