Living Legend of the Ayacucho Guitar

by Gustavo Yashimura

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1.	Negra del Alma 03:19	buy track
2.	Utkupankillay 02:58	buy track
3.	Las Prendas del Corazon 03:40	buy track
4.	Coca Kintucha 03:26	buy track
5.	Pucuysito 03:21	buy track
6.	Romance de Guitarrero 03:52	buy track
7.	Dónde te Fuistes Paloma 03:57	buy track
8.	Tierra Bendita 06:16	buy track
9.	Chunkullay 03:28	buy track
10.	Palomita Encantadora 03:16	buy track
11.	Umpa Rosas 03:57	buy track
12.	Adios Pueblo de Ayacucho 03:29	buy track
13.	Mauka Zapato 03:56	buy track

about

Gustavo Yashimura-Arce comes from humble origins in the Ayacucho region of the Peruvian Andes. He started playing guitar in 1987 and 2 years later he travelled to Montevideo in Uruguay to study music at La Casa de la Guitarra.

After spending some years playing classical guitar in Japan, Gustavo returned to Peru in 2004 and began his intense studies of the Andean guitar styles of the Ayacucho region. Later, in 2008 he found the perfect teacher – 80 year old veteran guitarist Don Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú, known locally as Rahtako. Through Don Alberto, Gustavo was able to learn songs and styles from across the Andes, though the main focus remained on the traditional styles of the Ayacucho region.

The Ayacucho Province of Peru is mountainous and remote and mainly populated by indigenous people of Quechuan descent, with the main language remaining Quechua, or Runasimi ('the People's Language'). The Quechuan people of the Andes remained resistant to Spanish colonisation and fierce in their preservation of their culture but on this album you will hear one of those strange, hybrid artefacts that can arise when cultures meet. The Spanish guitar was taken by the Quechuan people of the Ayacucho region and employed as a new means to convey their traditional music. The melodies you hear are versions of the traditional Huayno melodies usually played on harps, Andean pipes, charango and mandolin.

Gustavo is joined by Luis Sulca Galindo on second guitar and Greys Berrocal Huaya on vocals on 4 tracks on the album.

We've been extremely happy to work with Henkel Bellido (Sounds of the Andes) to bring this beautiful music to light.

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released May 6, 2022

Lead Guitar: Gustavo Yashimura Arce
Second Guitar (1, 7, 8 and 13): Luis Sulca Galindo
Singer (1, 7, 8 and 13): Greys Berrocal Huaya
Production: Sounds Of The Andes (PE)
Direction: Hankel Bellido

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