The slinky funk of Peru’s black communities — the legacy of Spanish slave trade — was a secret on the international scene until Luaka Bop’s Afro-Peruvian Classics: the Soul of Black Peru. An entrancing amalgam of Afro-Caribbean beat, flamenco flash and Spanish poetry, the music of Peru’s African communities has undergone a renaissance in that country. Now revered in Peru on a par with our devotion to the Delta, Afro-Peruvian music has turned the world’s impression of the Andes upside down.