Merveilleuse Yma Sumac. Une des plus grandes voix de tous les temps.
#YmaSumac #mambo #voice
https://open.spotify.com/track/31EKf1HRXKA3lD2LOjJJNX?si=Lw5vsMmSRpiAHeoE0kqMGA
This is the first time I've ever heard Yma Sumac so I'm probably doing it wrong since I assume this psych rock album is not her typical sound. But I love it!
Yma Sumac - Miracles (1972)
Oh! And, there's also this vocal insanity (or massive wide range talent)!
It's all her! And, that's NOT a theremin!
Thrifted a SECOND vintage copy of "Songs by Tom Lehrer." The second is the EP version -- all the same songs, but on two 7" 45s. Both are early editions, when Lehrer had a private record label and sold them by mail order. $2 at the Friends of the Library bookstore.
Last year, at the same store, I thrifted a boxed set of four, 7-inch 45 rpm records of Peruvian singer Yma Sumac's second album, Legend of the Sun Virgin. That did NOT have all the songs of the LP version.
Je découvre la cantatrice péruvienne Yma Sumac et son incroyable tessiture qui lui conférera le titre de "diva aux quatre octaves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYiflDw18o&list=RDDL9glWlzu9Q&index=2
Yma Sumac was a soprano widely known as the Queen of Exotica, a so-called Incan Princess with a 5-octave vocal range, or “the bird who turned into a beautiful woman.” Sumac was born in Peru in 1922, w
Music:
The Dreaming, #KateBush
Born Yesterday, #MrPips
Nunsexmonkrock, #NinaHagen
Frozen Days, #YosukeYamashita
Legend of the Jivaro, #YmaSumac
2012: The Era, R&J Emp
Tanta Hasha, #Kaoru
Nearly anything at https://www.mixotic.net/
Laughs:
A.P.E. (1976)
18 Bronze Girls of Shaolin (1983)
#StarTrek Abridged https://www.youtube.com/user/StarTrekAbridged
Interactive:
Patatap https://patatap.com/
Neon Flames https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames
Flight Radar 24 https://mobile.flightradar24.com
Hopalong Orbits https://hopalongvr.dghost.net