The Charango is a 10 stringed South American Instrument that I came across around 2008 while taking part in plant medicine ceremonies. This is the sound that brought us back home from where ever our healing journey took us.
I fell in love with the sweet sound of this voice the moment I heard it, and quickly became a student of Don Jose, who introduced it to my world. He started me on my Charango path, patiently finding ways to encourage me despite our language barrier. This is a riff off his signature piece, and every time I play it, I think of him and the healing he brought to our community with Charango medicina. With grace, gratitude and love to Jose, and all my teachers of the strings.
credits
from The Pearl Within,
released April 20, 2017
Lea Garnier - charango and ting shaws