2 posts tagged “glass harmonica”

I first heard this track on a tape that was a copy-of-a-copy, without track listings, which just had the name 'Congreso' on it. The previous copy had been given to my friend Omar by someone from Chile, and he duplicated it for me. That was about all I knew, but I was grabbed by this song that opened the album. I couldn't track down the album for years, though I did find a more recent album from what I presumed was the same group, which turned out to be a disappointment. As for more information on the band, I just knew they were from Chile, and were some loose collective with a vague connection to a music professor at some Chilean university; they took traditional Andean music and mixed it with rock, haunting harmonies and complex rhythms, without shying from a spot of dissonance here and there. I still haven't got the album this comes from, but did manage to track down an mp3 of it recently. My version here is pretty faithful in structure and melody, but with a few instrumentation changes including a spot of theremin and glass harmonica.