For Pachamanca, a short ethnic documentary, I recorded a bass siku-bipolar panflute. The melody is "Aguita de Putina" from the south of Peru. I chose the song since all luthiers and the workshop are from Puno.
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Shaman CD. 2024. 9 songs.
60 minutes
This is a clip of excerpts of the live recording in the studio of the Gael song for the Shaman, CD. The objective is to produce a CD album for 2024.
The melody was composed by Dougie MacLean while thinking of the Lochness monster in Ireland. He had a vision of 2000 years ago where the Gaels lived around the lake and their reaction to the monster in the water. This was a work for hire from an Irish recording company.
Dougie: I wrote the song for the Loch Ness Monster Centre-– it was a commission for them. The monster in the loch goes way back to ancient Gaelic myths of seahorses (kelpies), and to write this little tune, I imagined a Gaelic community on the banks of Loch Ness, believing in such myths, and I thought about how real that would have been to them. I wrote several songs for “The Search,” the CD that contains “The Gael” and other songs about Loch Ness, including a song about the vigils on the loch in the 1960s. At the time I got right into the whole Loch Ness monster thing. I’m fascinated by man’s search for myth, and I was inspired by thinking of the Gaels back in ancient times, waiting for the monster to appear.
https://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2010/07/interview-with-dougie-maclean-songmaker.html
The original song was composed by Dougie MacLean. It appeared in "Promontory" As The Gael with a mesmerizing violin solo melody. Trevor Jones from South Africa composed a similar song and used it in the soundtrack of The Last of the Mohicans. 1992.
For this recording, I will use a Mama Quena in C, Do Mayor, and to create harmony I will intermix the melody with an Antara Latin-American panflute in C, a Nai, Rumanian Panflute in C, and a bass Siku bipolar, Zampoña in C.
Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru