mudd up!

Esa Cumbiera Intelectual (en español) - …another long article on cumbia , out today in the Argentine newspaper Página 12. (aside: as we drove, Pablo Lescano played me some of the upcoming Kumbia Queers album he produced and it sounded great, Andean-style vocals !, all in all unlike their current album’s dull rock covers.) shout to Sonido Martines for the tip.

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Musicans have to tune to something, and “in-tune” versus “out of tune” is a matter of relativity, so you might as well tune to the rooster.

Vibracatheral Orchestra has a nice album by that name which i blogged about 2 years back (”hangin’ out in another corner of the astral plane parking lot…); today i found its likely namesake:

Blind Street Musicians of Cusco - Tuning to the Rooster

… once they’ve tuned it, the Peruvian harps and mandolins sound like this:

Blind Street Musicians of Cusco - Marinera Cusqueña (3-Beat Rhythm)

the album’s buyable. Japan possess an intense tradition of blind street musicians playing strings which Ove-Naxx introduced me to.

posted by jace on June 27, 2008. you can subscribe to this post's comments via rss 2.0.