Apurimac II

Infobox Album
Name = Apurimac II
Type = studio
Artist = Cusco


Released = 1994
Recorded =
Genre = cross-cultural new age
Length =
Label =
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Australia"
(1993)
This album = "Apurimac II"
(1994)
Next album = "A Choral Christmas"
(1995)

"Apurimac II: Return to Ancient America" is an album by German cross-cultural new age band Cusco. It was released in 1994 on the Higher Octave music label.

The album is second in the Apurimac series, and contains native Central American and South American sounds reincarnated with a European musical touch, and has a much more lush, contemporary sound than the first Apurimac album, or other Cusco albums in general. Sounds of ancient American civilizations like Maya, Inca and Aztec are represented, and the orchestral touches remind of the then recent Cusco 2000 and Cusco 2002 albums, though on this album they are used more sparingly. This album is also a commercial high watermark in the band's career. "Montezuma" was featured as bumper music on Coast to Coast AM, and was also used for a Bud Ice television commercial.

Track listing

#"Montezuma"
#"Quetzal's Feather"
#"Dance of the Sun Priest"
#"Tula"
#"Yucatan"
#"Xul-Kan, King of Palenque"
#"Maya Temple"
#"Mexica"
#"Goddess of the Moon"
#"Temple of Remembrance"

Album credits

*Matt Marshall – Executive producer
*Kristian Schultze – Arranger, programming
*Dan Selene – Executive producer
*Joseph L. Steiner III – Digital remastering
*Murry Whiteman – Design
*Dee Westlund – Art direction
*Frank Von Dem – Bottlenburg mixing
*Michael Holm – Producer, mixing
*Cusco – Main performer