Cusco 2000

Infobox Album | Name = Cusco 2000
Type = Album
Artist = Cusco


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1991-1992
Genre = cross-cultural new age
Length = 41:43
Label = Higher Octave
Producer = Michael Holm
Reviews =
Last album = "Sielmann 2000 Soundtrack"
(1991)
This album = "Cusco 2000"
(1992)
Next album = "Cusco 2002"
(1993) |

"Cusco 2000" is an album by German cross-cultural new age band Cusco. It was released in 1992 under Higher Octave Music.

This album was created for the short TV series "Sielmann 2000". It was a documentary on changes occurring in the environment. Unlike the 1991 Sielmann 2000 Soundtrack, Cusco 2000 and its companion Cusco 2002 are arranged as proper studio albums. The music on this album combined classical styles, euphoric melodies and rhythms of Old Europe with the occasional Peruvian pan flute and African drum beat. Overall, this album is much more symphonic in style than any previous Cusco album (the soundtrack excluded), and this has gained the album much critical and commercial attention. The tracks "North Easter" and "Flying Condor" are completely different versions from those of the earlier abum releases, each severely reworked for these symphonic versions. Of lesser-known interest is that the opening track "Islands of the Galapagos" is a similarly extremely reworked version of "Galapagos" from their 1980 debut album Desert Island.

Track listing

# "Islands of the Galapagos" – 3:52
# "South America" – 3:25
# "North Easter" – 3:46
# "Rift Valley" – 4:53
# "Dark Fascination" – 3:41
# "Canada - Last Paradise" – 4:49
# "Serengeti" – 3:20
# "Rhythm of the Wilderness" – 4:18
# "Africa - Afrika" – 4:04
# "Flying Condor" – 5:21