The Whole Music Experience

  World Joël Francisco Perri The Andean Flutes Arc Music Bombo, charango, and Andean pan flutes--these instruments hail from the indigenous people of the Andean regions of South America.   In the 1970s many musicians, writers, and musicians fled Chile and Argentina to avoid persecution by ruthless dictatorships.   Many fled to Paris and formed a community where they brought the Andean instruments and songs from the nuevo canción (poetic and political songs) movement.   In 1971, Joël Francisco Perri, a percussionist of Sicilian and French descent encountered the South American musicians in Paris and eventually, this led the musician to dedicate himself to Andean flutes.  His son, Cedric Perri followed in his father's footsteps and appears on this CD. On his 2012 recording The Andean Flutes , we hear the jaunty side of several types of pan flutes including Bastos, Siku, Zampoña, Rondador and the bamboo recorder Kena played with the Ande...

Silvana Kane La Jardinera Six Degrees Records Silvana Kane (Canadian band Pacifika) offers an enchanting solo debut La Jardinera , featuring nueva cancion (new songs) from South America.   The minimalist approach of Kane’s yearning vocals set against a framework of acoustic guitar, banjo, bass and trumpet gives off an intimate feeling as if we sit in Silvana’s living room while she shares her favorite songs.   Kane reaches back to her childhood living in Peru, Canada and the United States when she discovered celebrated Latin American singer-songwriters such as Mercedes Sosa, Violeta Parra, and Chabuca Granda.   Kane transforms the folkloric songs into contemporary lullabies, which Kane sings in sweet, whispery Spanish.   Since I’m a fan of South American folk songs and warm acoustic music, I enjoy immersing myself in Kane’s recording.   When I first listened to the CD, I also visited YouTube to watch Kane’s sensual and touching videos. T...

I'm already looking at 2011 and what I seek regional music of France (and Corsica), Italy, Spain, Finland, Norway, and the Americas (especially Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina). I encourage labels that release this regional music to contact me by e-mail and then we'll go from there. I look forward to exploring this music. By the way, I'm always interested in acoustic music from Mali, Senegal, and Cuba. WME

Marta Topferova Trova World Village Marta Topferova’s third recording for World Village, Trova focuses on the traditional Cuban sound—mainly sones and trovas, but makes a few excursions to South America. Marta returns with her cuatro while adding guitar and maracas on this recording. Aaron Halvo (accordion, très, vocals), Roland Satterwhite (violin, vocals), Pedro Giraudo (bass, vocals) and Neil Ochoa (traditional Latin percussion) round it off the sweet Caribbean ( Come and Walk to the Hill ), and South American sounds ( The Fireflies ). Marta’s vocals sound warmer and lighter on Trova then on previous recordings—a mixture of honey and cinnamon. True to the trova and son traditions, poetry plays a central role either portrayed as Marta’s spiritual yearnings or the poetry of others reflecting on nature, love or transcendence over pain such as in the Pablo Raùl Trullenque and Carlos Carabajal’s Come to My Place without Knocking . The lyrical content radiates a wistful f...