REPRESS! The mythical group from the Amazon was born in Pucallpa in 1966. Juaneco started on accordion, along with his dad who played saxophone and led the band at the time. They mostly covered Latin American standards, including a lot of Colombian cumbia, and called themselves a jazz band. In 1968, in the midst of an oil boom, Juaneco bought himself a farfisa organ and hired a new guitarist, Noe Fachin, who, until then, had mostly played romantic waltzes in the criollo style. The group went electric and rapidly became the first psychedelic group of the Amazon. Noe Fachin explored both these new sounds, and Ayahuasca – the indigenous psychotropic substance under whose influence he claimed to have written all his songs; an exploratory journey that bears some resemblance to that of some of his California colleagues’. The result is an unequaled musical jubilation, a sort of Amazonian Funk colored by psychedelia. In 1977, most of the group – including Noe Fachin - died in a plane crash. All the titles on the compilation were originally produced by Alberto Maravi for INFOPESA, the Peruvian label that was primarily responsible for promoting Cumbia Amazonica. Tracklisting 1. Mujer Hilandera / 2. Caballito Nocturno / 3. Linda Nena / 4. Ya Se A Muerto Mi Abuelo / 5. El Llanto De Ayaimama / 6. Me Robaron Mi Runamula Side B 1 Vacilando Con Ayahuasca / 2. El Agua Del Higueron / 3. Un Shipibo En España / 4. Dale Juaneco / 5. A La Fiesta De San Juan / 6. La Patadita / 7. Recordando A Fachin