Lynette
Yetter
La
Paz, Bolivia and Los
Angeles, California
Unsigned
www.musicandes.com
World
Music
By: Susan Frances
If you can
imagine what air, water,
fire, and earth sound like
in music notes, then you
can imagine what Lynette
Yetters songs sound
like. The verses are
spiritual in nature and
have a worldly richness.
Lynette Yetter is a wind
player, singer, and
composer trained in
chamber music and jazz
flute. She fell in
love with the panpipes and
uses them as her chief
mode of expression.
For this
album entitled Inka
Spirit, Espiritu Incaico,
she played panpipes, kena,
drum, antara nazca, kena
chincha, percussion, and
lead vocals. Joining
her are Hiroyuki Akimoto on
guitar and harmony vocals,
Juan Carlos Cordero on
guitar and harmony vocals,
Rosario Paredo on charango,
and Alejandro Alarcon on
panpipes and kena.
Her song Memory
is an instrumental piece
that uses these wind,
string, and drum tools in a
delightful array of
swirling, airy, and high
rising motions. It
sounds like the wind blowing
as it rumples ocean
waves, kindles fires and
swishes through earth's
fauna and flora. The
fluxes and peaks in the
instrumentation are natural
and possess musical
aspects in ethnic music
from South America and
Japan.
Her song Nam
Myoho Renge Kyo is
pronounced with a
Western Andes seasoning and
peaceful chants as the
lyrics recite:
We are
rich in spirit
We are the Pachamama
(space/time continuum)
We are the Virgin (Mary)
We are divinity
We are eternity
With our music and culture
We can change the world.
The song
makes humans one with nature
through the vibrations
echoing in the bamboo
reeds. Her song Noqa
Minero Koni is a
trance like mix of swirling
pipes, gorgeous moving
textures, expansive
wavelengths, and sensory
chanting.
Her music gives
nature its own expressive
sound.
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