Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Hidden resume line: Record producer

A couple years ago, I had a few hundred dollars (of someone else's money) to invest in something worthwhile in Peru, and I was too busy to figure out what to do with it, so I put Cesar in charge. Cesar came up with the idea of supporting an Andean band called Pachacamac so they could get into a recording studio, produce an album, and then go on tour. It would cost more than we had, so we solicited donations via email and in no time had the cash. The musicians have since done two tours of the Southern Cone. Last night, they honored us with an in-home concert and it was amazing. Macalester senior Fiorella Ormeño Incio stopped by for the music, Cesar cooked a feast, and the five members of Pachacamac filled the neighborhood with their voices and the sounds of various pipes, charango, acoustic guitar, electric bass, various drums, dried goat ears and other shakers, flutes, and about 50 other instruments (each member sings and plays 10-20 different instruments). It was delightful and I suspect we will help them finance their next album, which they will probably record in 2009.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hola Pablo fabuloso! I've been silently following your voyagings with Nicole. Now that you are there with Cesar, please pass along a big "Guten tag, mein freund!" I'm glad to hear he's so alive and well since the time we were both stumbling through a conversation auf Deutsch.
Cheers!
Julia

Don/Dad said...

dried goat ears?