It's rare for a successor to sound better than the original, but in the case of 'Peru Bravo' (successor to the 2013 compilation 'Peru Maravilloso') that is certainly the case. As the title suggests, this is a collection of Peruvian soul, funk and psychedelia and the "radical decade" in the title refers to the late nineteen sixties and the early nineteen seventies. The mother of Peruvian garage rock was a band called Los Saicos, who in 1965 scored a national hit with 'Demolicion'. Merely a year later the Peruvian capital Lima already counted dozens of similar bands and not much later, other "American" genres gained popularity in Peru as well. In the beginning of that period president Fernando Belaúnde Terry and his Acción Popular party were still in power, but as the Peruvian sol continued to devalue as a result of bad economic policy, the Peruvian army seized power. After the coup, General Juan Velasco Alvarado was appointed president and his authoritarian leftwing regime put a ban on Western music, forcing bands like Los Destellos, Laghonia, Cacique or Traffic Sound to go underground and eventually crippling the movement. 'Peru Bravo' offers the listener an extremely enjoyable time capsule featuring music few outside Peru will have suspected existed. Excellent compilation!