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.