Yma Sumac - Miracles

This is the album all of the Yma fans can't stand. It's my favorite Yma LP! I love it because it's just so insane sounding.

This is Yma and Les Baxter's "rock" album from 1970. All of the tracks but the last one ("El Condor Pasa") were written by Les.

What allmusic.com says:

"The first song on this disc should've been a hit; "Remember" begins with a hard rock explosion and Sumac exploring what the liner notes call her "extraordinary five-octave voice." There are no lyrics here, just Sumac's vocal flights which ride over rock & roll textures. Although the rock here sounds like it is straight out of the Berklee College of Music, jazz influenced organ courtesy of Richard Person, Chuck Cowan's guitar, the bass of Roger Cowan, and Skippy Switzer's drums all shine here. On "Let Me Hear You," Sumac reaches down into her gut and comes up with a sound Peter Frampton utilized on his 1976 hit "Show Me the Way," the amazing thing is, she didn't have to use the mouth instrument employed by Frampton!"

What I said on another forum some time ago:

"That album's so whacked I'll always love it. It makes me think of a group of early 70s long-sideburned, mustachioed, Peruvian narco-guerillas getting floopy on ayahuasca and jamming out with some kind of birdgod woman spirit guide. If that makes any sense."

Play this at closing time to run all those rum thieves out of your tiki bar.

Miracles

EDIT: The above dead link has been fixed!