Guna

Jan 3, 2013 by

Reclining in his hammock and fiddling with his handmade flute, Santiago Campillo, the leader of Armila's folk music group Gammibe Gun Galu, explains: The songs we play are the songs God taught to each animal so that they could greet him with music when he visited mother earth.”  This rhythmic, soothing music he references, reminiscent of singing birds and lumbering tapirs (a cuddly-looking relative of the rhino), embodies the spirit of the Guna culture.

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