TAYKALI - Sur Tierra '2021

Tracks list

In the Aymara language, TAYKALI means the «old woman», the elder, the
ancestor. The name of the group TAYKALI is about the old knowledge and native
wisdom that a shaman uses for healing rituals around the fire in the Native
American culture. It is in the heart of living South American traditions that
the album Sur Tierra finds its origin and inspiration. Each song is a prayer
celebrating the holiness of nature, for the traditional doctors invoke the
forces they need to heal people through music. In the Native cosmogony, a human
being is considered a mirror of the whole universe. How could a man be healthy
without the community honouring the body that supports every human being : our
Mother Earth? May the wisdom of the traditional doctors of South America be
heard, at least through the graceful melodies that go through them...

TAYKALI results from the meeting of two musicians from Peru, the guitarist
Sergio Valdéos and the percussionist Cali Flores, long-time friends and
colleagues, with the Swiss singer and journalist Laetitia Fontana. After several
years of meeting the shamans who live in the Amazon basin and the Andean
Cordillera, Laetitia has at her fingertips and in her voice a whole repertory of
celebration songs in relation with the healing rituals and the cosmogony of the
Native South American culture. Her dream is to offer an elegant musical suit to
the melodies she collected around the fire. In February 2020, she presents her
project to Sergio and Cali. It is already rumoured that a pandemic is invading
the world. A very particular time begins when the three musicians start to
record the so called “medicine songs” they chose to work on...
Because of the circumstances, the album will be entirely homemade, each one to
his house.

Laetitia sends a simple voice and guitar interpretation of each song to Sergio.
On the basis of it, Sergio builds a rich weaving of guitars. Laetitia then adds
the vocal harmonies and Cali goes on with percussion, flutes, charango... The
result is Sur Tierra, a profound acoustic Metis album, in which rhythms from a
wide variety of horizons (Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba... ) meet a voice tinted
with soul and jazz. A sound to which the talented engineer Philippe Tessier du
Cros will add his touch of poetry.

Tracklist: 
1.01 - TAYKALI - Cura y Curo (6:12) 
1.02 - TAYKALI - Àbrete Corazòn (4:11) 
1.03 - TAYKALI - Agua de Estrella (3:32) 
1.04 - TAYKALI - Sur Tierra (5:01) 
1.05 - TAYKALI - Flor das Águas (3:21) 
1.06 - TAYKALI - Tren del Cielo (4:44) 
1.07 - TAYKALI - En el Cielo y en la Tierra / Abuelito Protector (6:41) 
1.08 - TAYKALI - Cura Sana (4:12) 
1.09 - TAYKALI - Ojos de Cielo (3:42) 
1.10 - TAYKALI - Caminante de Estrellas (3:14)

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