Search - Inca Son: Music & Dance of the Andes :: Mi Cambio

Music that's both surprising and joyful!

01/11/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Last fall, while walking across the campus of Canisius College in Buffalo one night, I heard music unlike anything I had ever heard before. It came from the chapel, where the front doors were open wide and the inside was lit up like a luminaria. At the front, near the altar, I could see people in colorful outfits playing panpipes and other exotic instruments, swaying in time to the music. I was enchanted, and stood listening in the darkness outside for a long time. Later I found out that the musicians were the members of Inca Son, a group specializing in music of the Peruvian Andes and Latin America. I purchased two of their CD's for my 13-year-old son, and he plays them over and over, every day, until everyone in our household has begun whistling along with the now-familiar tunes. I've never been a fan of panpipes before, associating them with the panpipe CD's offered on TV that sound like hollow-toned Muzak. Inca Son plays panpipes as they were intended to be played, producing a number of tunes with a satisfying beat that transports the listener to mountain villages a continent away. My son loves both the CD's, but Mi Cambio is definitely the favorite.I keep scanning the newspaper listings of cultural events, hoping Inca Son will return to this area so I can take my son to their concert. In the meantime, their CD is a joy."