Today’s Random Album of the Day is Recuerdo Andino from Llajtasuyo. I can’t find any information about this recording online. No stream or anything. So I’ll do my best to relay what this is.
This is, at a minimum, influenced by traditional music from South America. The Andean reference suggests as much. When I googled Llajtasuyo I couldn’t find much except a reference to them performing at a School for the Americas Protest. This is where the USA trained troops who conducted human rights abuses in South America and Central America. I wonder if that is how I came into possession of this – through my activist roots.
I know next to nothing about traditional Andean music so I’ll just say that this is really good music. Well performed and quite entertaining. It’s not my usual fair of noise rock or twee pop. It is what it is though and it is quite interesting.
Rating: 9.0
Favorite Track(s): Sariri or Nucallaqta or El Pitch. I could go on really. It’s all good.
Keep or Trash: Keep. It seems unique. I don’t know how much I’ll listen to it, but it seems worth keeping. It’s cool we have this in our collection of music.
I hate that I do not have a stream for you. But this may be who this is. This Youtube channel has several videos of a band performing traditional music that goes by this name and that sounds similar. And they tag their location as Atlanta which fits with a School of Americas Protest since that was located in Georgia. Also their Youtube shows the Peru flag which fits.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: