http://www.317x.com/albums/s/ymasumac/enlargement.html
but Miracles is very different and kinda cool... neat to hear her singing over heavy psych & blues guitars. the music's a very square & tame version of psyche pop, and the melodies aren't that distinctive, but yma always sounds fantastic, and it's nice to hear her singing into insane amounts of reverb & delay
― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
actually checking out Miracles again a bit, 'tree of life' & 'flame tree' are very cool... it's only the opening track that's really heavy, the rest of it is much more casual & groovy... yeah this record works. she always sounds great.
she toured about six or seven years ago, and I didn't go -- what a fool
― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 14 March 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
BUMP FOR JOREL
― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
calling ian rm!
go see yma sumac!!!
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of society's derangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
RIP
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP! i think i'll listen to "miracles" later.
― ROBIN TROUSERS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 November 2008 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck :(
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 3 November 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw shit man - I actually thought she'd died some years ago. :(
I'm playing Legend of the Jivaro.
RIP, octave-queen.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 3 November 2008 07:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I though she had left us some time ago, but its still sad she's away - playing "Taita Inty"...
― Sandy Blair, Monday, 3 November 2008 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
goddess! bye bye yma.
― stirmonster, Monday, 3 November 2008 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I also assumed she was no longer with us. but, indeed, sad news. a total legend.
― m the g, Monday, 3 November 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Monday, 3 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
her stage name "Yma Sumac" means "how beautiful" in Quechua.
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aw man, RIP Yma.
― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
sigh... RIP
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 November 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Shasta OTM
― sleeve, Monday, 3 November 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-memory-of-yma-sumac-life-magazine.html
― Milton Parker, Monday, 24 November 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
She's so classic. Mambo is the best
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
Monos is the track I have always loved. Think it's on Voice Of The Xtabay.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
Goddess. Nice recent story about the many myths of Yma Sumac: On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link
There's a new 3cd out through Cherry Red that includes at least 6 of her lps in entirety and I think plus some other stuff. I have been wondering how good it sounds. Cos I was going to grab it if I saw it in London then didn't see it.
Do have a 2cd set that does include Monos thankfully. That was the track I always fancied working up a version of or based on if I got a band together. Then never got a band together.
Need to find out if Amy camus is as much of a myth as what it thought it was dispelling.
& it was the copy of the 78s album of Voice of the Xtababay that taught me not to use vinyl cleaner on shellac cos it's not surface dirt that comes off but the actual surface.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 January 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link