Various Artists - Indians of Bolivia / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made entirely within Guyana, where all the three families are well represented... David Blair Stiffler.

The city of Cuzco, Peru is home to a number of indigenous peasant communities. Much of their music continues to be associated with fertility rites and to mark agrarian cycles, but the Spanish introduced guitars, mandolins, and other instruments that the indigenous peoples adapted and blended into their ancestral music. The songs are sung in Quechua. The liner notes, in English and French, provide information about the geography of the region, the history of it's inhabitants, local rituals involving music, and especially the musical instruments heard on the recording.

..excellent performances of some captivatingly colourful music. (Russian Easter Festival) splendidly exuberant playing from players who naturally have the stuff of the music in their bones... marvellous gravity and resonance.... (Dubinushka) only a trifle, but quite a rare one. Rimsky-Korsakov heard the song during the 1905 revolutionInch - both his liberal instincts and his musical invention were fired... scored by the master hand and very effective (The Golden Cockerel) excellently played under Svetlanov (he has a marvellously strangled trumpet for the cock-crow) Inch.