Slow Dance from Machu Picchu

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        I heard this dahce from the Machu Picchu area of Peru .on a tape made · there by a friend.* It was played on the local cane flutes and assorted other instruments; our version is my reconstruction of it from memory. The only conscious change we made was to shorten up the pattern in the first two parts. In the last part (where the whistle duet begins again) you can hear the full pattern as I remember it. We also used what instruments we had: high whistle= Annie Muir, low whistle= Pat Bok, high guitar= Gordon Bok, low guitar= Ed Trickett.** Only those who know and love traditional South American music will know how much of this is lost-intranslation, but we hope the joy and dignity of the tune will come through to hold you as it has held us. (GB) ' * This friend now lives in Brazil, but I'm trying to find out the name of the melody and the excellent local group that perrformed the song. When I do, this in£ormation will be on file at Folk-Legacy. ·

** Whistles by Gordon Bok, guitars by Nick Apollonio.

Slow Dance from Machu Picchu is recorded on the CD Turning Toward The Morning