Tag: Pacha Wakay Munan

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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...

A comprehensive undertaking by a couple of Peruvian musicians and researchers in Dimitri Manga Chávez and Ricardo López Alcas, the debut album by the duo Pacha Wakay Munan explores the sonic possibilities of pre-Hispanic instruments almost too numerous to mention, including pututos a type of ceremonial trumpet made from conch shells, antaras those ceramic pan flutes which were native...