On the 1st Anniversary of Al Compas Del Mundo Broadcasting -What’s there to say about my adopted country, Mexico? It’s the land of “please” and “thank you” - still. It’s a place where folks’ first impression upon meeting you is “it’s a pleasure” - really. Old traditions die hard: sitting for a (typically delicious) restaurant meal, perfect strangers leaving a nearby table will wish you “provecho”, i.e. “have a good meal” - I’m not kidding. Passers by more often than not will utter a “buenos días” or “buenas tardes” - it sounds genuine though you’ll never cross paths again. And then there’s the music. I’ll let it speak for itself in this mix, but as is evident herein, and as President AMLO (as he has come to be known) states emphatically “Mexico es un mosaico cultural. No somos una sola cultura. Somos muchas culturas.” (“Mexico is a cultural mosaic. We are not a single culture. We are many cultures.”) Listen with an open mind. The music is mostly indigenous, in a variety of tongues. It is music straight from the heart and means the world to those who profess it. What have we got that is comparable? - J.H.
Al compas del mundo – programa #52, Homage to Mexico – a Mexican soundscape
01 Banda Misterioso - Rango Recargado (Oaxaca); street vendor in Tequisquiapan, Queretaro
02 El son de la tortuga (mi son poj) Huave, Oaxaca
03 La negrita (son), Apatzingán, Michoacán; XHPE radio; Teodora Meza Valenzuela Yoowe speaking Yoreme
04 Danza de Guadalupanas - Landero y Coss, Veracruz
05 Los tiradores (valona), Apatzingán, Michoacán; marketplace ambience
06 Mariachis mamones - El mono de alambre
07 Son La mosca de colmena (ó abeja), ó de La Danza grande. Tenek ó huastecos de Tampate, San Luis Potosí
08 Hermanos Platas - Son del Pez Espada, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
09 La del moño colorado con marimba, Chiapas; market vendor; radio Chiapas
10 Mexico City street accordion and traffic noise
11 Mexican president AMLO and musica indigena part 2
12 organ grinder; Banda Universal - Popurrí Quebraditas
13 shortwave variety Mexican radio stations
14 Hermanos Calderon - Las Conchitas
15 Higinia, Juchitán, Oaxaca; radio ID
16 anonymous group - danza Makawi de los Tarahumara, northern Mexico; marketplace Villa Progresso, Hidalgo
17 Danza de los Pastores - Nahuas; Christmas procession in Calpulalpan, Tlaxcala
18 Medio toro, Ajuchitlán, Guerrero
19 flute and drum in Villa Progresso market; anonymous group – Zapateado, Veracruz
20 Danza S
anto Cristo de la capilla - son el Guayalero; bells of Tequisquiapan and Mexico City
21 Lacandon elders, earth honoring songs, Lacandones Mayas de Chiapas; banda del pueblo
22 La manta, Boca del Río, Veracruz; Radio Zapata
23 Los Heroes del Sur – Nisata yu ña yuvi (Guerrero)
24 Villa Progreso band - La llorona, Hidalgo; Yibel - Jmetik banamil, de San Juan Chamula y Zinacantan, Oaxaca
25 Mexican president Amlo and musica indigena part 1
26 Orquesta Tzentzangary - Arriba Tzentzangary (Purepecha from Michoacan)
27 Danza del venado (fragmento). Mayos de la playa, El Naranjo, Sinaloa
28 La malagueña, Ajuchitlán, Guerrero
29 Música de los santos (fragment), Tzotziles de Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas; Mexico City street vendors
30 Los cantores de Valles - El llorar (La madrugada) - (1968 Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi); street singer; Radio Gallito
31 Los pascólas, Magdalena, Sonora
32 traditional music of the Chamula - yajvalel vinajel (Chiapas)
33 La mañanita alegre (son calentano) Apatzingán, Michoacán
34 Mexican president AMLO - Viva Mexico!
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