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Los Thuthanaka – Wak’a

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From the darkness of eternal night, weaving twilight, weaving red through the heat of their voices They say the ancestors were dancing, singing: Desnudito, never let the light come / Desnudito, never let the day arrive Beacause they knew the approaching sunrise brought the mundo en policía (policed world) Attributed to Aymara oral history, these lines accompanied as a kind of preface an...

Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka

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Beyond the bristling sound of panpipes, the rhythms of Andean music are now so deeply embedded within popular culture that their influence can sometimes be easy to overlook. Rooted in the instruments and ceremonies of the pre-Colombian era, brusquely impacted by the push and pull of colonialism which entwined local traditions with African customs, European military bands and Italian...