ARAWI
La Doctrina de los Ciclos/The Doctrine of Cycles
NA029

The Contemporary Orchestra of Native Instruments, La Paz, Bolivia; for flutes, whistles, strings, percussion, bells

Borrowing a word or a sound is an option left to those who have exhausted their possibilities of constructing languages capable of naming and creating.

Man and the Andean World, whose vision moves his mutant relationship with time and space, maintains in his music an element of surroundings and people.

"Arawi" (Aymara for song and musical creation) was founded in 1985 and is dedicated to musical options that exist in both traditional styles and classical forms of Bolivian music.

The majority of the musicians who study at the Workshop are adolescents and young adults from low income sectors in the barrios of La Paz. The traditional folk music of the Andes, also referred to as 'musica ancestral' (ancestral music), with its wide array of musical instruments, forms the backbone of the educational curriculum, to which are added techniques and approaches applied to contemporary music as an aesthetic alternative. In this way Arawi attempts to address the temporal and spatial concept of returning to origins and of creating a language for an emerging culture.

Exotic and intensely beautiful sonorities that could only come from the roof of the world.

--San Francisco Examiner

Track List

1. Dibujos 3:52
2. La Doctrina de los Ciclos 8:55
3. Amtasiñani 10:07
4. Rozando el Poste 4:40
5. Imaraycu 2:29
6. Ellos 4:21
7. Cumbres 13:30
8. Movimiento Pendular 7:02

Total: 55:37

$15.00

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