Various Artists - Indian Music Upper Amazon / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The area designated by the vague term 'Upper Amazon' is actually incredibly extensive. The great Amazon system drains three million square miles of territory, or approximately half the South American continent. Some of it's most remote tributaries, fed by melting glaciers in the Andes, originate less than eighty miles from the Pacific coast. Others extend upward into the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This vast area, flanking the eastern slopes of the Andean chain, embraces a bewildering number of Indian tribes, an almost unbelievable number of unrelated languages, and a series of tropical forest cultures that range from exceedingly simple and primitive to highly sophisticated and complex... Harry Tschopik, Jr. Album Tracks 1. Fiesta Music 2. Fiesta Drum Music 3. Social Dance Music 4. Traveling Music 5. Girl's Puberty Rite 6. Public Work Music 7. Social Dance Music 8. Work Song 9. Welcoming Drum Music 10. War Song 11. Dance for Adolescent Girl 12. Lullaby 13. War Music 14. Drinking Music 15. Fiesta Dance Music 16. Fiesta Dance Music 17. Game Lure Whistle 18. Social Dance Music 19. Fiesta Drum Music 20. Social Dance Music 21. Social Dance Music 22. Fiesta Music 23. Public Work Music 24. Animal Sacrifice Music 25. Funeral Music 26. Fiesta Drum Music