Listening to this music transports your soul to the land of the Incas.
To Tiahuanacu, the spiritual center of the Aymara people.
Who worship Mother Earth and Father Sun. Where the sacred Harvest Festival celebrates fertile success for crops, livestock and each other.
Where the Southern Cross Constellation is sacred and worshipped.
Where people still speaks Aymara the mother tongue of Quechua the language of the Inca people.
This sometimes savage, sometimes sentimental musical voice reflects Bolivia's miles-high Altiplano, fertile valleys and exotic jungles.
It is this music of the high flying condor and low prowling puma.
It is the music that completes your at-one-ment with the natural world.
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Jacco Velarde, originally from La Paz, Bolivia South America, researcher ethnic-musician, composer, recording artist and audio engineer: He has performed and toured internationally throughout Latin America, Canada, USA and Europe, performing with and recording with major Bolivian Andean super stars such as, Ernesto Cavour, Alfredo Dominguez, Zulma Yugar, Cesar Junaro, Los Trovadores de Bolivia, Los Puma Punku, Los Payas, and many others including performances with the international Bolivian band "Rumillajta". He is also founder of the Bolivian National Ballet.
Jacco Velarde moved to Dallas, Texas in 1979, and found Vision Andina in 1985. Since then, he has been actively involved in educational programs for elementary schools trough Young Audiences of North Texas and the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and former artistic director of "UT Andean Esemble" at University Texas at Austin.
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