Various Artists - Maya-Quiches Guatemala / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

William Hooker is a musician, composer, and poet with over 70 recordings as a leader, encompassing jazz, new music, experimental music and multi-disciplinary forms of expression (e.g. dance, silent film and spoken word). He has been recognized [by The Wire] as Inchan iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation,Inch which is evident nowhere more than on his latest album. Hooker says of the work, which features collaborators Matt Lavelle, Sarah Manning, On Davis, and Adam Lane, Inchour express purpose was to play great music and to communicate such.Inch The group - captured live in 2023 at acclaimed Brooklyn performance arts venue Roulette - does just that, and the result is pure Jubilation (noun; a feeling of great happiness and triumph).The marks Hooker's fourth outing for Org Music, following Flesh and Bones (2023), Big Moon (2021), and Symphonie of Flowers (2019). Album Tracks 1. The Stare 2. Linking 3. The Villages 4. Central Features of Sleep 5. Exhausting Clouds 6. Laws of Heredity 7. Steam

Produced and recorded by Jacques Jangoux. InchThe music presented in this album is typical of rural Guatemala. Most of the inhabitants of this area are Indians of Mayan descent, but almost everywhere in the Guatemalan countryside one can also find Ladinos persons, of whatever descent, who speak Spanish in their homes and have adopted the Ladino way of life, which is mostly Spanish. It is not completely Spanish, however, because both the cultures of rural Guatemala are the result of the confrontation over several centuries of two very different civilizations, the indigenous Mayan, and the Western, introduced by the Spanish in the 16th century. Both cultures have borrowed traits from the other, and this is nowhere more evident than in their music, which is a mixture of European, Indian, and perhaps also African elements...Inch Jacques Jangoux. Album Tracks 1. Chirimia and Drum 2. Chirimia and Drum 3. Chirimia and Drum 4. Marimba and Clarinet 5. Marimba and Clarinet 6. Chirimia and Drum 7. Chirimia and Drum 8. Small Marimba 9. Whistling 10. Spanish Children's Song 11. Spanish Children's Song 12. Spanish Children's Song 13. Humming 14. Marimba 15. Marimba 16. Marimba 17. Marimba 18. Los Almendras (Ladino) 19. Adios Juanita (Ladino) 20. Indian Song 21. Indian Song

Produced and recorded by Jacques Jangoux. InchThe music presented in this album is typical of rural Guatemala. Most of the inhabitants of this area are Indians of Mayan descent, but almost everywhere in the Guatemalan countryside one can also find Ladinos persons, of whatever descent, who speak Spanish in their homes and have adopted the Ladino way of life, which is mostly Spanish. It is not completely Spanish, however, because both the cultures of rural Guatemala are the result of the confrontation over several centuries of two very different civilizations, the indigenous Mayan, and the Western, introduced by the Spanish in the 16th century. Both cultures have borrowed traits form the other, and this is nowhere more evident than in their music, which is a mixture of European, Indian, and perhaps also African elements...Inch Jacques Jangoux. Album Tracks 1. Pito, Chirimia and Big Drum in Procession 2. Two Old Men Singing in Procession 3. Marimba 4. Two Marimbas from Near Aguacatan 5. Marimba of the Baile Vaquero - Baile Del Torito 6. Marimba of the Baile Vaquero - Baile Del Torito 7. Ladino Musicians from Cotzal Playing Marimba 8. Drum and Pito, No. 1 9. Drum and Pito, No. 2 10. Bells of the Church During Procession 11. Violin and Guitar at Market, Restaurants and Bars 12. Violin and Guitar at Market, Restaurants and Bars 13. Violin and Guitar at Market, Restaurants and Bars 14. Violin and Guitar at Market, Restaurants and Bars 15. Marimba, Played By Three Musicians at a Bar 16. Marimba, Played By Three Musicians at a Bar 17. Marimba, Played By Three Musicians at a Bar 18. Old Woman Praying in the Church 19. Drunk Woman Singing at a Bar 20. Two Marimbas Playing at Church 21. Drum and Chirimia