Facio Santillan

 

SORTILEGES DE LA FLUTE DES ANDES avec FACIO SANTILLAN

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SPELL OF THE ANDEAN FLUTE with FACIO SANTILLAN

Riviera, 1968 or 1970, 521 087 

I played this LP over and over when I was a teenager trying to learn the kena. I was a beginner at that time and F. Santillan was really a big boost after I discovered bands like Los Calchakis or Los Incas. Born in Argentina in Santiago del Estero he was very popular in France and Germany where he lives now. Argentina was an important place for the neo-folklore type of Andean music since the 50s with musicians like Hector Miranda, Jorge Milchberg or Ricardo Galeazzi.
He's a virtuoso on the kena and he's able to play any tune in any scale. I think this LP was recorded in Paris but the other musicians are not mentionned at all. They play mostly guitars, bass and bombo. The most exciting pieces are tunes from Venezuela and Paraguay where the kena is unknown but adapted for the kena in a masterly manner. Published in a collection called ''Talent'' by the French label Riviera founded in 1951 by Eddie Barclay.

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