Tag: Los Thuthanaka

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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...

For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

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...