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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Dear listeros,</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>I'm searching for ancient
indigenous Mesoamerican and Andean music.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>I know of Jaramar Sosa
who has spent her musical career performing in ancient indigenous languages
such as Zapotec and Quecha. But I don't know if there allready exist something
of her on cd. She was planning a full album with songs in the Purapecha
language.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Binni Gulaza, a vocal and
guitar trio, which played "sones istmenos", the traditional music of
the Zapotec Indians which live in </span></font></i><i><font color=blue><span
lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>Oaxaca</span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>. Zapotec
guitarists and composers are seemingly well known throughout </span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>Mexico</span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>. Some of the
country's most popular love songs are from the sones istmenos tradition. In the
last hundred years brassbands have been largerly replacing string bands, with
the result that many lyrics, noted for their masterful command of the Zapotec
language, have been lost.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>I'm also searching for
the roots of contemporary Andean music, which go back before and during the
Incan Empire. Music with the zamponas, the pan pipe, and the charango, the
double stringed mandolin, made of the shell of an armadillo.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>The shrill mournful sound
of the pipes seems to touch something deep in the human soul, and is a perfect
complement to the rich tones of the charango.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Stringed instruments
seemed unknown before the Spanish Conquest. But accounts from the time of the
Conquest praised the hypnotic and smoothing effects of the music.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>I'm aware of Jorge
Milchberg y Los Incas, who achieved fame with his album El Condor Pasa. I'm in
the possession of the song "Tema de Maimara" from the album Alegria,
that seems to succeed in evoking the beauty of the </span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>Andes</span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'> themselves.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Ollantay of Expression,
which is based on Incan ceremonial forms called Yaravi and Huayno, and tells
the story of General Ollantay. This track should be from the band's second
album Wasichakuy, which is a Quecha Indian word that means "to build your
own house", as well as the circle of light that surrounds the Sun and the
Moon.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Wasichakuy is seemingly a
strong united energy by which one could overcome any obstacle, and in the Incan
soul it encouraged faith and radiated an aura of positive energy.</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Lahun Ik 62</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Baert Georges</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>Flanders</span></font></i><i><font
color=blue><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue;font-style:italic'> Fields</span></font></i></p>
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