Voice of the Xtabay | 
 enlarge | Artist: Yma Sumac
Label: The Right Stuff
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 15837
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 91217
UPC: 077779121724
EAN: 0077779121724
ASIN: B000002UTZ
Release Date: March 5, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Taita Inty (Virgin Of The Sun God) | | • | Ataypura (High Andes) | | • | Accla Taqui (Chant Of The Chosen Maidens) | | • | Tumpa (Earthquake) | | • | Choladas (Dance Of The Moon Festival) | | • | Wayra (Dance Of The Winds) | | • | Monos (Monkeys) | | • | Xtabay (Lure Of The Unknown Love) | | • | K'Arawi (Planting Song) | | • | Cumbe-Maita (Calls Of The Andes) | | • | Wak'Ai (Cry) | | • | Incacho (Royal Anthem) | | • | Chuncho (The Forest Creatures) | | • | Llulla Mak'Ta (Andean Don Juan) | | • | Malaya! (My Destiny) | | • | Ripui (Farewell) |
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 Songbird January 7, 2008
This music brought me back to my youth when my parents would play Ima Sumac on the stereo. She has the only voice that I have ever heard with such range in both high and low octaves.
 Yma Sumac November 28, 2007
As a young child in New Zealand of all places my mother had this as an LP in fact I still have it .She knew all about this woman and was fascinated by her voice.I was too and still am so it is wonderful to be able to get this voice on CD.She had an incredible range which is still mind blowing today I shall look forward to adding her CDs to may collection
Voice of the Xtabay Yma sumac February 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Outstanding CD will continue to buy from your company. Fast service and great shipping.
Listen to that voice ... . January 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found one take of this record on some obscure Rolling Stone "Rare Tracks" world sampler. Its character, somewhere in between world, psychedelia, opera, put some eerie kind of spell on me.
Subsequent queries at some artist/album review sites indicated this best pick. I immediately ordered and received a loosely bound concept album ("aztec style") in song format, with focus on this beautiful, experimental voice .
Highly recommended for open minded world music explorers ... .
An Entire Genre of Music In A Single Voice June 12, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My parents had both of the 10" records that were eventually combined on one LP, available now as a CD. The music caught my ear as a child, and then I rediscovered it as a young man, when experiments with pot and psychedelic drugs lead to this music being in heavy rotation on my turntable. But you don't need chemical augmentation to enjoy this incredible stuff, just an adventurous spirit; there is nothing else like either the music of Yma Sumac, or her voice, and few have bothered to imitate her (it's impossible, anyway; with the help of Les Baxter, Bas Sheva tried and failed). What, exactly, IS this music? Is it exotica? Opera? Avant-Garde? Latin Dance Music? The answer is "all of the above," and then some ... it harkens back to primitive times and anticipates acid rock. It would be at home in a tiki lounge, yet not be out of place on club dance floor. Check out a lounge/remix album called (what else?) ELECTRO LOUNGE, which samples Yma Sumac's music on a couple of tracks. Back to VOICE OF THE XTABAY, what was once a 10" record called INCA TAQUI makes up the second half of this album, and includes some of Ms. Sumac's most astounding vocal work. Among the first artists to play with vocal double-tracking, Yma's performances on 'Chuncho (The Forest Creatures )' and 'Maylaya! (My Destiny)' may be heard yet still not be believed. The first half of the LP features the musical arrangements of Les Baxter, and is slightly more conventional than the more ethnic sounding second half (arranged by then-husband Moises Vivanco), yet taken as a whole, this is probably Sumac's most powerful effort. For a look at the beautiful Yma Sumac in person, see the campy 1954 Charlton Heston adventure film SECRET OF THE INCAS, in which she pantomimes to a couple of songs from VOICE OF THE XTABAY. The cover of this album is taken from the set of that movie. For further listening, seek out the stereo version of FUEGO DEL ANDE (my personal favorite Yma Sumac record). I am still waiting for a CD issue of 1972's MIRACLES, a failed attempt at a comeback, which is, nevermind the dismal reviews it got at the time, a stunner, sounding like a cross between the Yma of old and Led Zeppelin! Unfortunately, this album did see digital reissue as YMA ROCKS for a brief time and, drat it, I missed it ... I think its time has come again. Is anyone listening?
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