Essential Cusco

Infobox Album
Name = Essential Cusco: The Journey
Type = compilation
Artist = Cusco


Released = 2005
Recorded = 1984-2003
Genre = cross-cultural new age
Length =
Label = Higher Octave
Producer = Michael Holm
Reviews =
Last album = "The Early Best
of Cusco"
(1999)
This album = "Essential
Cusco"
(2003)
Next album = "The Magic Sound of Cusco"
(1988)

"Essential Cusco: The Journey" is a compilation album by German cross-cultural new age band Cusco. It was released in 2005 under the Higher Octave label, and was produced by lead musician of the band Michael Holm. This collection includes tracks from the Higher Octave albums released between 1988 and 2003, although the albums Mystic Island, Water Stories, and A Choral Christmas are not represented. Several of the tracks on this compilation were also released on the previous compilation album The Best of Cusco.

Track listing

#"Da Gama" (Ancient Journeys)
#"Oracle of Delphi" (Inner Journeys)
#"Waters of Cesme" (Ring of the Dolphin)
#"Africa-Afrika" (Cusco 2000)
#"Montezuma" (Apurimac II)
#"Tula" (Apurimac II)
#"White Buffalo" (Apurimac III)
#"Ghost Dance" (Apurimac III)
#"The Hunt" (Apurimac III)
#"Flying Condor" (Cusco 2000)
#"Flute Battle" (Apurimac)
#"Australia" (Cusco 2002)

Album credits

*Michael Holm – Composer, main performer
*Murray Whiteman – Cover art
*Debra Holland – Liner notes
*Ron Mcmaster – Digital remastering
*Kristian Schultz – Main performer