Artist description Authentic high energy and relaxing music from the Andes. Pachamama is the yugoslav musical group which performs the music of the Andes on authentic instruments. Its name in the language of the Quechuas means "The Mother Earth" and is one of the principal divinities in the religion of the autochtonous inhabitants of the Andean region. There is a lot of classic music influence in Pachamama's interpretation of andean music and therefore classical instruments (like piano or classical guitar) are incorporated together with pure autochtonous instruments like tarkas or antaras. The members also play some renaissance pieces using andean instruments. The general idea is to make parallels between various kinds of music and to point to the historical influences among them.

Music Style Music of the Andes

Musical Influences Clasical, Renaissance, World traditions, Southamerican, Andean and every other good music of no particular genre.

Artist History The musical group Pachamama was founded in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) in 1989, with the aim to perform traditional and composed music of the Andes (Bolivia, Peru and Argentina). Up to now, the group participated on several national and international festivals and gave quite a number of recitals in Yugoslavia, Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary and Turkey. In the actual Yugoslavia it is the only musical group which performs andean music and consists entirely of non-latinamerican members. On ocasion of "Segundo Encuentro de Latinoamericanistas" (Belgrade - 1998) Pachamama participated with the work "Short Summary of Main Andean Instruments and Basic Rhytmical Patterns" which was published afterwards and can be found on Pachamama Web presentation as well.

Group Members Snezana Stanojevic, Vladimir Lazic, Stanislav Stanojevic, Mioljub Vitorovic

Instruments quenas, quenachos, chuli, maltas, sankas, toyo, tarkas, moceño, charangos, guitars, bombo, ch'ajchas

Albums 11 self released albums (see Pachamama Web presentation for details)

Press Reviews "...The interpretation of the music we had the oportunity to listen is raised to classical level. Serious musicians and very good musical arrangements ..." - Politika (Belgrade)

Additional Info member of AIMA (Asociación Internacional de Músicos Andinos - http://www.aima.8m.com). Mail to Pachamama : pachamama@beotel.yu, pacha@infosky.net

Location Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia

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