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13 October 2008 - The group isn't from the Andes, it was formed in Calgary, Canada. The name of the group is "Nuna'Y" and they are pleasant to listen to.
29 March 2005 - I have known about a Live365 radiostation called "Walisuma De Los Andes" for some time. They just didn't catch my attention at the right time. By this I mean that there are times that I like to listen to "música andina" and there are times that I don't. Today was a "I like" day. When I checked the stats, they have 12 TLH or 12 listening hours. For a style of music that is so relaxing, that must be frustrating. I simply like the sound of the quenas or sikus (zampoñas).
22 June 2004 - I learned a new word. It is zampoña or panpipes. The panpipes are also called Siku. What I found interesting was a site called pan-flutes. There are 2 ways in flash or non-flash. Both have their advantages. Once you get to the non-flash site, a little pan creature appears. You just have to click on it and then follow the links. It is a very interesting web site but I found the pantunnel extremely interesting. It is like you are on a moebus strip and a continuous loop. The site also descibes the musical instruments used to produce música andina.
7 March 2004 - I received an email from the owner of Vin Argentin and he suggested that I add his site and links to two artists. As I write this, I am listening to Pablo Salcedo. The flute, or more likely a quena, almost gives me goosebumps. The 2nd artist was Markama and it also has a unique sound. Markama is a Quechua word meaning "to the people". I will have to add an "Music from the Andes" section to my Music of Interest web page. Groups such as Inkamerica (Columbia) are really consider folklore or folkloric. Music from the Andes and the Llano have a similar heritage in that they are old (viejo) and come from the people. I have always like the sound of tribal or folk music that make use of the flute of panpipes. The only things missing on Vin Argentin are 30 second sound bites to spur you into buying a CD.
One of the groups that I could listen to for hours was Inkamerica (Columbia). They had 2 songs and you could download one of them. The other you had to listen to on Mp3.com. Mp3.com has died and I am left listening to "Ojos azules", which I downloaded when I had the chance. I normally played it from Mp3.com and had to find where I save it. I have it on my Creative Nomad Zen2 and frequently listen to it. When you only have 1 song, it can get old in a hurry; however, when you only have 1, you don't have much choice.
Another Andean style group also fell into my listening group. They are called Peru Andes. They had one song with a terrible burst of noise in it and I sent an email to them. The next thing I know all of their music that you could play disappeared. So, you can't listen to them to see if you like their style of music. I wasn't quite there and had to make a choice of buying their CD-ROM are try and find someone else to listen to. What I found is that there was a station on mp3.com called Andes_on-line where you can find a number of Andean sounding musical groups. I also started listening to Colores Andinos, which is based in Ontario, Canada. The also have a website called Colores Andino.
Listening to stations on Andes On-Line eventually led me to an MP3 station called "The Mood of The Andes". I downloaded some songs from this station, included Peru Andes and Colores Andinos and that is what I am listening to while I drive right now. The town I live in is doing a traffic enforcement thing on after work traffic and my Andes Music makes pleasant listening in the heavy traffic. When you have a tendancy to be slightly aggressive driver, anything that can calm you down in the middle of other aggressive drivers has to be a good thing. You can let someone cut in front of you that makes you have to brake to avoid them. It still makes you angry, just not as angry.
An interesting web page on Andean culture is Andes.org. They have a number of interesting culture links. The highlight of my recent browsing is finding a number of really cool web pages on Machu Picchu. I will work up a page with links that I have found. The web pages that show up in search engines such as Google have problems because they are old and the links have developed "URL rot", i.e., their link has changed and they 404 on you.
Another web site is called Pacoweb. I could have linked you to their index.html but you ought to see the person holding fire at least once. It is dedicated to Music from the Andes. It is written in Spanish but most of it you can figure out even if you don't know any Spanish. A few words such as búsqueda (search), fechado (dated), cualquier palabras (any words), and todas las palabras (all the words) need to be explained. While others such as frase exacta (exact phrase) don't need an explanation.
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