Tatati

©Horatio Salinas Alvarez

        From yet another tape sent to me by a friend, with a lot of unidentified tunes on it. (I've loved this kind of music since friends used to bring it back from South America in the early 60's. These friends of mine who get together once a week just to play heard this and said: "Let's try that; that's beautiful!" So we did, with what we had. There were more musicians on the tape than we had, but our indomitable Will Brown decided that the tambourine (which was playing a different rhythm from the others) could, indeed, be played, so we strapped (with masking tape) a borrowed tambourine to his right foot and he played guitar with both hands and the odd rhythm with his foot - and having seen that, we were committed. I'm not sure what the original instruments were (turns out the tape was from the ubiquitous group: Inti-Illimani; "Viva Chile"), but this is how we reconstructed it. Gordon: Laud (A small, gourd-shaped 12-string: Canary Is./Apollonio) Christine Statler: Flute Carol Rohl: Black bodhran Will Brown: Rhythm guitar and (simultaneous) foot-tambourine Thanks to Molly Schauffler for help, and to Debbie Suran for locating the source of the tune.

Tatati is recorded on the CD Ensemble