cacharpaya - incantation 1982

[chopchung]

FANTASTIC TUNE!!. SO damn catchy!!!!. A big hit in UK in 1982. Always gets me thinking of the Falklands war due to its being a hit in the same year and of course the South American connection,albeit Peruvian rather than Argentinian.

[alfventress1]

you can help but get up on your feet and start spinning when the tempo kicks up.

[MrCedricthefrog]

Many thanks to Sir Terry Wogan for playing this back in 1892, or was that 1982!!

[TheAngliangirl]

Transports me back to '83, this was my first LP I brought, with my first pay. Beautiful music.

Thank you.

[quarry93]

i love this song!!!

[BamzookiMan130]

I can't help but pump my fist to the drum beat when this comes on. Imagine going to battle with this song in the background, and the battle starting when the tempo starts picking up.

[En3usiast]

Great to hear this 'knees up' tune again.....Andes Pumpsa Desi !!.......

[p0rt13st0y4k11]

mexico no es un pais andino son mayas aztecas , solo quiere imitar a los andinos y esta musica noes de mexico es de Sudamerica

[alexafagan]

Love it , listened to it first when my daughter was a baby, had to dance with her, now I just prance around the kitchen on my own, so what...I will do it again, and again.....

[crewbucket]

Best live band EVER !! Please try to get back together, lads! People NEED to dance in the aisles again. especially now.

[sant11207]

Dior brought me here

[MrChrisrox1]

I dance around in my room and pretened I am mexican when this song comes on.....Oh dont worry Im normal!

[handsomeboy1700]

@MrChrisrox1 lol why mexican!? you should be dancing like a peruvian indio!

[Bilfo]

@handsomeboy1700 Exactly!!! (:

[handsomeboy1700]

@Bilfo yup :)

[MrClairerox1]

@MrChrisrox1 You go sista!

[sirwhale28]

@MrChrisrox1 This song has nothing to do with Mexico. Try a bit further south.

[benuzzzzz]

modern music cant even be compared to this...60's, 70's and 80's music rocks

[sattfield]

Man I haven't heard this in 20 years+. Still sounds great though.

[neil73]

@sattfield Me too - had it in my mind's ear for that long. Always knew it was by a band called Incantation but didn't know the song title. Watching the top 30 countdown from January 1983 brought me here!

[fantazum2011]

I bought this album in the falkland islands in 1984 and lost it in a house move in 2009.

Many thanks for posting this recording - it brings back wonderful memories of my motorcycle adventures in south america and the wonderful people I met.

[DBZdude95]

Good song I heard this on the landscape channel and I'm still now wondering where I've heard this I'm 16 and I remember this from a long time ago it just randomly came on and I was humming it like i play it everyday can somebody please help ?

[handuprun]

Dior haute couture 2005 Anniversary show!!!

[SuperEdwardTeach]

best songs i haver heard

[claudiasl]

me da pena estas canciones me acuerdo mucho de las fiestas del pueblo de mi padre y sus costumbres :(

[xLMFABx]

this is my childhood song. When i was 6 i used to beg my mum to play this to me over and over again. Never stopped loving it :)

[oxxxArkanxxxo]

@xLMFABx Just exactly the same memory :)

[irisferguson]

I did my gymnastic floor exercise to this! Lumping around in a leotard frightening the parents!!

[ABNJIM10]

This is on at the end of 'an Idiot abroad'.

Also check out Gigi d' agostinos version of this.

[steveo1964]

Not heard this since I bought it in 1982 I was watching another youtube video and the word incantations was mentioned completely unrelated to this video/audio track, but it kicked off a series of synaptic lightening storms in my brain to search for the memories attached to that keyword the first record was found as Mike Oldfield I knew it wasn't that then I had a flash of mountain ranges and knew it was the Andes then the name of the group poped to the for front of my mind and you-tube had it.

[fridaynightposse]

@steveo1964 hehe, good work old boy x

[kevzero11]

This was the track that got me into "dance" music,love it

[seamusmolloy]

this beats the shit out of justin bieber and lady gaga

[bobbyzox]

it makes me excited when it gets faster lol... i wanna join in with a tambarine or summat q:o)

[Toygirl2006]

my sister bought this on 7inch when it 1st came out i was 7yrs old top tune good memories of my childhood

[15chipshops]

I actually bought this 7" vinyl for a girl at work back in 1987 for our work Secret Santa. I remember we could only spend around £5 max per person, i had pulled out a pretty cool chick to buy for so i was determined to impress. I went down to a record shop in Camden called Rocket where in the basement they had thousands of 7" Singles from as cheap as 10p upwards. I spent my whole £5 on the 7" singles. She loved her records, especially Incantation.

Great memories!!!

[GJ0KYZ]

@15chipshops Nice story, what happened afterwards?

[BlaargZ]

I had this on an old compilation called 'Raiders of the Pop Charts'!

[Diablo666Daemon666]

i got no sound?

[MrPasarell]

I saw these guys a few years ago, they were great and if you ever go to the Rivercentre, San Antonio, home of The Alamo, you will see a few guys playing this as well, San Antonio is such a great city >

[bonnie3840]

so relaxing

[mrstwattysfella]

brilliant,was my favourite at school,i used to mime on my packet of felt tip pens (you know what i meen) :)

[conradin1000]

I believe the full title of this folk dance is "Cacharpaya del Indio", and it's Bolivian, not Peruvian.

[some1knowsomebody]

@conradin1000 actually it's played both in Peru and Bolivia, and it means "Farewell to my dear village." Suppose to be played when men who are in their teens go off to the big city and hope they make it big.

[fiestaman87]

This brings back memories.

[ybolton1]

I have been looking for this for such a long time!

[edobriensgrin]

@ybolton1 me too, i had no idea what it was called or who it was by and as there were no lyrics i couldn't google it. However, whilst listening to Mike Oldfield I heard a track called incantation and something just clicked in my memory.

[anubissammie]

Got this on 45rpm in 1982. Love this song, Flight of the Condor was on side b. Class stuff.

[yasmimlagunilla]

Excelente

A very good video

thank you for share

kisses

Yasmim

[NICKY752]

I actually had the pleasure of meeting this amazing group in Lettrtkenny Co.donegal Ireland and they were the nicest and most decent people imaginable. They signed a cassette (well it was 1988) and let me have my photo taken with them.. A beautiful memory to go with their beautiful music, Happy times!

[hellix101]

@NICKY752 i had the same thing, but it was in Glasgow and they were doing a street busk.....Brilliant.

[Lusitani74]

FINALLY!!!!...

Been looking for this for ages (literally!!!)

Thanks a lot!!! :)

[antoniodt96]

this music is a legend

[Govanmauler]

No way, I heard this tune on a kids tv programme when I was 6 or 7 (1981 maybe) and it feels like I listened to it yesterday. HUGE !

[tangomoggy]

@Govanmauler The programme you are trying to think of is Blue Peter. And they even had a competition linked to their appearance.

[JK4everyoung]

I can hear this song every day!!!!

It's areally good song!!! XD

[CHUVAOSOL]

the first music i heard from incantation 22 years ago! it opened the bounderies for my passion for andine music. thank you

[dokken87]

great !!! while "qonquering" the top 20 british chart that time - it was the first time for me to be intruduce ot "actually PERUIAN -ANDES " music style ... inspite most of that band were british musicians ..

since then i looked a lot for real ANDES music , and for more INCANTATION stuff

INCANTATION - from what i impressed - they're still quit anonymus - and stuff o f them is quit rare

[Ironic268]

@dokken87 please excuse me cos I am british but I loved this when it came out and still do. wondered if you could help me-we had a series called 'flight of the condor' (on tv just BEFORE this came out and I know it similar style but not been able to find it yet-the theme for the series that is! Just remember both songs made me wish I had wings at 10 and can only find this one now!) Don't suppose you have any ideas? (The condor in question was NOT in a zoo he/she was actually in the Andes BTW)

[SHOLTIE2004]

@Ironic268 Give me a bit of time think I have the theme on vynil up in the loft, will try and upload it one day

[ZodeakUrganomix]

Every time i hear this i want to learn it on my guitar but I would have a hard time keeping up. Also does anyone have a tab? I can only figure out a few notes

[ZodeakUrganomix]

Legendary!

[anthonymerrill]

yeah! i love this song! bring it on! i love it when it gets faster!

and..varieyist you made me laugh about the new wave thing and having a slap! haha! i was a new wave head at the time but i still loved this track and the album and i also liked Pigbag aswell "Papas got a brand new pigbag", which i thought was similar but without the panpipes, anyway, both are classics!

[varleyist]

great song

[varleyist]

great song

[varleyist]

1st south american song i heard loved it ,but did not tell my mates at time ,new wave was the thing then,would have got a slap.

[godisip]

thank you ! :)

[sneakeysmoker1]

reminds me of the patagonians from the fast show!

[robertodowneso]

I spent a year living as an Amazonian style shaman high in the Andes. Living the area around machu pichu, we used to listen to this all the time. great days,thank s for posting this

[BOXER62]

forgot to say give it a few moments to get to the music.

[BOXER62]

strange jump but if you like this look for GHOST DANCERS  watch the ballet one. Be prepared to be moved...

[killutilludi]

fucking brilliant i remeber incantation on top of the pops geez but found them at last excelent

[gigglesden07]

nostalgia aint wot it used to be (think about it) lol

[SmurfTwilight]

Haha imagine dancing to this, would be awwesome!

[gusgorilla76]

@SmurfTwilight I've done it! It's great fun but pretty tiring.

[DANIELHEWITT1]

reminds me of my first acid trip. it was the only album we had at the time, their was a track called flight of the condor,AMAZING

[tygress1uk]

BTW wasnt this pan flute music the reason that South Park got taken over by giant guinea pigs???? lmfao

[Zondergrod]

No, it's what saved it.

[tygress1uk]

Wow legendary i remember having this on some album called chart hits or chart busters back in 83, lmao wow what memories like when Now albums used to come out once a year just before xmas (used to look forward to unwrapping that as a kid for a few yrs) :D

[deeksterN]

I had no idea they were from Britain and Tony from my home country Scotland! Fantastic well done guys for making a song that stayed with me since it's birth!

[jeansim18]

ohh!!! that's the music in caramilk ads!!

[lewisbeckerleg]

This reminds me of my youth!! I think that they are from Bristol, or the West Country somewhere. Awesome!!

[lyndieloo100]

love this track even have it on my ipod

[AmaLuvinIt]

omggggg i used to listen to this tune over and over again as a kid! i made my dad record it on tape from the record we have at home! :O this has made my day! :D

[fedupworking]

I love good music. Thats why i'm not listening to X factor.

[ingi1996]

@fedupworking good you regard this as good music. Quiero tener mas de este tipo de musica! that's spanish and means: i want more of this kind of music.

[pkokweighton]

Great tune- reminds me of my holiday in slovenia in 84 when i was only 15.

[aboliston]

I remember this being in the charts - quite a while back!

Like the way it speeds up

[Bagpussbee]

WOW thank you thank you thank you !!!!!

[reynaldomonterrey]

FLAWLESS!!!

[Homoholic]

At long last! You made my day! I haven't heard this wonderful track for over 20 years. I ♥ it!

It was a Top 10 track in the UK and it's simply amazing.

If you like this kind of sound, check out 'Ultimo Imperio' from Atahualpa. It's more techno, though...

[claregreen90]

I love the little laugh at the end!

[cgerbyw]

awesome

[Orriyoku]

best.... fukin..... song..... EVA :3

[ingi1996]

@Orriyoku thats exactly what i'd say if i had allowed myself to say the f-word

[ageage123]

love this.

[LanesAccount]

Keep this shit pumpin all day and night.. or the giant hampsters will come!

[guibou153]

caramilk..:P

[davidnettleton]

Well done! I can now forget cartoon rats and Dr Who and listen to this instead.

[natsishere]

I love this.

[muscle134]

caramilk song :D

[Biggy001]

Peruvian my arse