Indian Music of the Upper Amazon

"The area designated by the vague term ‘Upper Amazon’ is actually incredibly extensive. The great Amazon system drains three million square miles of territory, or approximately half the South American continent. Some of its most remote tributaries, fed by melting glaciers in the Andes, originate less than eighty miles from the Pacific coast. Others extend upward into the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This vast area, flanking the eastern slopes of the Andean chain, embraces a bewildering number of Indian tribes, an almost unbelievable number of unrelated languages, and a series of tropical forest cultures that range from exceedingly simple and primitive to highly sophisticated and complex..."

Harry Tschopik, Jr.

"A área designada pelo vago termo “Alto Amazonas” é em realidade incrivelmente extensa. O enorme sistema fluvial amazônico drena um território de três milhões de milhas quadradas, aproximadamente metade do continente sul-americano. Alguns dos afluentes mais remotos se originam oito milhas da costa do Pacífico e são alimentados pelas geleiras dos Andes. Outros vem das regiões altas da Venezuela, Colombia, Equador, Peru e Bolívia. Nesta vasta área há um número de tribos indígenas, com um inacreditável número de línguas distintas, e uma série de tradições tropicais que variam de extremamente simples e primitivas as mais sofisticadas e complexas..."

Harry Tschopik, Jr.

"El vago término ‘Alto Amazonas’ designa, en realidad, un área increíblemente extensa. El enorme sistema fluvial amazónico drena un territorio tres millones de millas cuadradas, aproximadamente la mitad del continente suramericano. Algunos de sus más remotos tributarios, alimentados por los glaciares andinos, se originan a menos de ochenta millas de la costa pacífica. Otros provienen de las tierras altas de Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. Esta vastísima área abarca un inmenso número de tribus indígenas, una casi increíble cantidad de lenguajes independientes, y una variedad de culturas que abarcan desde las extremadamente simples y primitivas hasta las más sofisticadas y complejas..."

Harry Tschopik, Jr.

Track Listing

101	Cocama: Fiesta Music (1)	Kukama men singing, drumming	02:16
102	Cocama: Fiesta Drum Music	Kukama pan-pipe players, drummers	01:45
103	Cocama: Social Dance Music (1)	Kukama flute player	01:57
104	Cocama: Music Played When Traveling by Canoe	Kukama flute player, two drummers	01:32
105	Shipibo: Girl's Puberty Rite	Shipibo-Conibo drummers, mixed voices	02:16
106	Shipibo: Public Work Music (1)	Shipibo-Conibo drummer, flute player, mixed voices	02:49
107	Shipibo: Social Dance Music (2)	Shipibo-Conibo drummers, male singer	01:22
108	Shipibo: Work Song	Shipibo-Conibo man	01:22
109	Shipibo: Welcoming Drum Music	Shipibo-Conibo drummer	01:06
110	Shipibo: War Song	Shipibo-Conibo man	02:27
111	Shipibo: Dance for Adolescent Girl	Shipibo-Conibo drummer, blowing tube player, bell player, mixed voices	01:43
112	Shipibo: Lullaby	Three Shipibo-Conibo women	01:32
201	Campa: War Music	Asháninka men and women	01:50
202	Campa: Drinking Music	Asháninka female singers and drummer	01:14
203	Campa: Fiesta Dance Music (1)	Asháninka pan-pipe player	01:08
204	Campa: Fiesta Dance Music (2)	Asháninka pan-pipe player	01:20
205	Campa: Game Lure Whistle	Asháninka hunter	00:45
206	Campa: Social Dance Music (3)	Asháninka male singer with female chorus, drummer	02:20
207	Campa: Fiesta Drum Music (1)	Two Asháninka drummers	01:13
208	Campa: Social Dance Music (4)	Asháninka men and women	02:10
209	Conibo: Social Dance Music (5)	Shipibo-Conibo flute player	01:12
210	Conibo: Fiesta Music (2)	Shipibo-Conibo male and female singers, drummer	02:17
211	Conibo: Drum Music to Call People to Public Work (2)	Two Shipibo-Conibo drummers	01:23
212	Conibo: Animal Sacrifice Music	Shipibo-Conibo flute player	01:22
213	Conibo: Funeral Music	Shipibo-Conibo female mourners	01:30
214	Conibo: Fiesta Drum Music (2)	Two Shipibo-Conibo drummers	01:44