Aymara's Music Poscast aymaras

A charango is a musical instrument to ten cords (five cords doubled pinches) out of nylon resembling a small guitar. Following the arrival of the Spaniards to America, the natives took as a starting point the guitar to create this small instrument. After its creation, it had much influence on the Andean countries.
The first charangos were built by using the carapace of armadillos of small size, called Kirkincho, like case of resonance. This practice continues although certain races of armadillos are protected. However, the use of wood for the case of resonance is increasingly frequent, best the charangos while being conceived of only one part.

Huajcha Pucuito me llaman todos,
porque no tengo padre ni madre,
solo, solito había quedado,
en este yelmo del altipampa,
por eso cuando la luna llega,
mi voz doliente elevo al viento,
mis tiernas alas agito al aire,
en busca de mis perdidos padres
pucuy pucuy siempre diré
llamando a mis queridos padres
que voy hacer, soportaré,
la amarga vida que estoy pasando
apiadaté cielo de mi,
si eres divino y real,
sacame de esta orfandad,
te pago mi corazón.

Author: Zacarias Puntaca

Meaning of "Huajcha Puquito" in Aymara language is orphan.

The true sikuri of Mañazo as in the Puno's streets, this group is the oldest of the Candelaria's festivity in south of Peru.

Peruvian carnivals are marked by the festive character of Andean areas, which regularly break with their solemn traditions. Beyond regional variations, a common characteristic of nearly the entire highland chain is the ritual of the yunza, called umisha in the jungle and cortamonte on the coast. It involves artificially planting a tree trunk laden with gifts, around which the guests dance until it is chopped with a machete or an ax.
The couple who make the final hack that brings down the tree will then both be in charge of organizing the yunza next year. Peruvians across the country are extremely fond of tossing buckets of water at each other during this festival. Cities where carnivals reach a high point include Cajamarca, Arequipa and Puno.

Pueblo Andino - Selection of Peruvian Carnivals (Fusion version):
- Cuzco's carnival
- Arequipa's Carnival
- Cajamarca's carnival
- Huancayo's carnival

Heights of Macchu Picchu: I
Pablo Neruda

From air to air, like an empty net,
I went wandering between the streets and the atmosphere, arriving and saying goodbye
leaving behind in autumn's advent the coin extended
from the leaves, and between Spring and the wheat,
that which the greatest love, as within a falling glove,
hands over to us like a large moon.
(Days of live brilliance in the storminess
of bodies: steel transformed
into the silence of acid:
nights unraveled to the last flour:
assualted stamens of the nuptial native land.)
Someone waiting for me among the violins
found a world like a sunken tower
digging its spiral deeper than all
the leaves the color of hoarse sulfur:
and deeper still, into geologic gold,
like a sword sheathed in meteors,
I pulnged my turbulent and tender hand
into the most genital terrestrial territory.
I leaned my head into the deepest waves,
I sank through the sulfuric peace,
and, like a blind man, returned to the jasmine
of the exhausted human springtime.

Image Copyright © Martha Noriega
This style of music comes from city of Ayacucho in Peru.
Ayacucho is the capital city of the Peruvian Province of Huamanga. It is famous for the great quantity of churches that it possesses and for its religious celebrations of Holy Week. As for its cultural identity, in it they are celebrated big events in commemoration to the holy week, among its better events the processions are, the contest of horses of step and the traditional one "jalatoro" that is something like Spanish confinement, the difference is that here the bulls get drunk with the horses of the morochucos.
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