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andina Digest Tuesday, September 9 1997 Volume 01 : Number 001
In this issue:
(andina) Chabuca Granda
(andina) Recent Items from Ecuador
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:25:27 -0400
From: "JORGE H. MEDINA" <medina@coqui.net>
Subject: (andina) Chabuca Granda
Joel Fentin wrote:
> 2. Peruvian singer/songwriter Chabuca Granda has two CDs out
> that I know of: One is La Voz Del Peru. The other is a rip-
> off. It think its name is Flor De La Canela. She also sings
> one or two songs on other CDs. Does she have any other CDs
> of her own?
Yes. There is a Two in One CD from RCA VICTOR ( CDC 743213223025) with
the title "Estrellas del Fonografo". Is a 22 songs CD, 12 by a great
mexican folk singer Chavela Vargas and other 10 by Chabuca. GREAT!!!
Record in Mexico with the participation of Mariachi Vargas de
Tecalitlan.
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:15:26 -0500 (UTC -05:00)
From: jsimmons@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
Subject: (andina) Recent Items from Ecuador
I spent a month in Ecuador in July-August on vacation, and thought
I would pass on a few items of interest from there for the list.
First, Quito is awash in charangos. Just a few years ago, you could
occasionally find one imported from Bolivia for very high prices, but
now, they seem to be sold on every corner. Prices range from $40 on
up. Charangos made in Ecuador are mostly of wood, though there are a
few being made with armadillo shells. The quality varies with the
price, and there seems to be a lucrative market for cheap-o toursit
charangos with fancy carvings, etc. I resisted the temptation to buy
another one, mainly out of memory of what happened to my Ecuadorian
guitar during one cold, dry Kansas winter night (the wood cracked as
the guitar shrank, and the guitar shark badly enought that the ends
of the frets stick out!). You could probably nurse a charango
through a North American winter with a humidifier.
Recordings of Andino music and near-Andino music are also everywhere.
There are still some groups doing pretty traditional stuff, but the
temptation is to shorten the songs down and punch up the melodies for
the toursist trade. CDs ran from $10-25 each. There are a few
subsidized CDs of non-Andino music that are worth buying. I picked
up one of 14 wonderful songs by the famed duo Benetiz-Valencia in
the "Ecuador Canta al Mundo" series for a mere $4 or $5. Also found
a Charijayac "Sus Mejores Exitos" (Greatest Hits) and a CD of semi-
traditional music by a band from Salasaca (Salasacamanda, Vol 1)
worth buying. I say semi-traditional, because several of the cuts
have a snare drum added, and of course they include a very new-age
version of "El Condor Pasa."
I recently acquired an excellent and fascinating article by Lynn
Meisch from Stanford University, "We Sell More Tapes When We Play
'El Condor Pasa': Otavalo Musicians on the World Stage" that is
from the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. She laments the death of the traditional sanjuanito,
as market forces seem to be shortening the songs down for gringo
ears. In discussing the conflict between traditional music and
"Western musical ideas" she says "When listening to Sanjuanes in
a folk music club in Otavalo an American friend asked me, 'Where's
the rest of it?'"
While traveling this time, I took along a travel guitar, and would
like to put in a plug for it in case any of you are thinking of
traveling with a guitar. I have NO connection to this company other
than having purchased a guitar from them, so this is not a commercial
(!!). I tried the Baby Taylor and Tacoma Papoose, but they were
really too big and I didn't like the sound. I then tried a Martin
Backpacker, which I thought was a horrible waste of wood. The I
found the Vagabond Travel Guitar, handmade in upstate New York, and
its a wonderful instrument. It is small, light, with a good soft
case, and very durable, GREAT sound, good bass. $349 from
Vagabond Travel Guitar, P.O. Box 845, Albany, NY 12202, phone
1-800-801-1341. The web page is www.stringsmith.com/index.html
Also, toured the Museo de Instrumentos Musicales in the Casa de la
Cultura in Quito, which I had never seen before. My wife, who had
seen the museum a few years ago, said it used to be in better shape.
The labels are a bit ragged and the cases faded, but they have
some pretty interesting instruments, including some charangos,
and a variety of quenas, rondadors, etc. Well worth going to see.
BUT, in the same building, but in a different museum, if you are
in Quito, DO NOT MISS the Banco Central del Ecuador's fantastic
"Instrumentos Musicales Precolombinos." Its a marvel. I have
the guidebook (in Spanish only, sorry) and if people are interested,
I will post some selections from it in a few days. I will leave
you with this quote from the guidebook:
"La musica, que es una combinacion y un matrimonio alquimico entre
las vibraciones sonoras y los intervalos de silencio, se convirtio
en un pilar de la aspiracion y busqueda espiritual del hombre.
- --Valentin Erigene"
John Simmons
Natural History Museum
University of Kansas
jsimmons@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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