Artist: Various Artists
Album: Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
Release Date: 2007
Genre: Various / World
Of this year's many exceptional reissue titles, this wins the "unexpected" prize. Party-hardy oil workers in the Peruvian Amazon crank out a delightful amalgam of surf, cumbia and Andean folklore. (Listen: "Sonido Amazonica
