finetune artist: Inti-Illimani

Inti-Illimani is Latin America's greatest, most long-lived folkloric group ever recorded. Their regal name comes from Bolivia's Ayamara dialect, meaning Sun-Mountain. In more than three decades of existence, Chile's Inti-Illimani has acted as an Andean musical ambassador to the world, rendering the soulful folk idioms of their region and others with more than 30 different wind, string and percussion instruments. Rustic meets refined in graceful arrangements that always have both musical and poetic allure. Of Inti-Illimani's seven current members, Jorge Coul¢n, Horacio Dur n and Horacio Salinas remain the founding core of the band. Their tale begins in the spring of 1967 at Chile's Universidad Tcnica de Santiago, where the original five players (Coul¢n, Dur n, Salinas, Pedro Ya¤ez, and Max Berr£) were studying to be engineers. In the bubbling atmosphere of a decidedly politically left-leaning university (with a newly elected communist dean), enormous social unrest and an artsy folkloric revitalization, Inti-Illimani's members found themselves falling in love with their hemisphere's neglected traditional instruments ? namely the mandolin-like charango and flutes such as the quena, zampo¤a and rondador.

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(1998) Lejania

Arpa Peruana
Subida (Climb)
Amores Hallaras (You'll Find Another Love)
Sikuriadas
Tonada Triste