The End of the Beginning...

The End of the first Maya Productions trip.....

Well I rapped up my trip with an asado (BBQ) at Abel’s house. He took a good 8 hours of his time to sit me down and explain the origin and elements of the true Argentine Tango, as well as explain a couple of his own songs. It was amazing. He also let me videotape him teaching me all the different strumming styles of Argentine Folkloric music…. Priceless.. It was a night I’ll never forget.
Before leaving the country, I tried to say good bye to as many friends as I could but it’s amazing how established you can get in 2 months,,, ha ha, I’m still calling people.. Everybody was so nice to me…. As far as the Artists go, each one had at least a Master copy of their project as well as a DVD with all the raw data from the project.

Run Down:
-Spent 2 months and 2 weeks in Argentina with a 6 day detour in Brazil.
-Recorded 6 Full CDs ranging from 7-16 songs each…Actually 8 disks total if you include the Cultural Event recordings in Rosario, and a live album I did for my friends band, but those will not be seen on the Maya Productions site as they do not fall into the category and requirements of the project
-Almost done with the Graphics for each project. Basically I tried to create a template for their CD covers that incorporates pics from the recording sessions and elements of their music.

Thanks to everybody that followed the trip and my apologies for not always being on top of the blog.. The Web site will be updated with in the next month so everyone can enjoy this amazing music that was recorded…………..

Proyecto Étnico
Ruben and Marcelino 

Proyecto Étnico And Espectáculo de World Music

Proyecto Étnico

The Proyecto Étnico was an amazing project performed by Ruben Carrasco and Marcelino. Their goal was to record as many of the native instruments of Argentina as possible with each track focusing on different instruments. The sound came out great. I like how this project kept each track to 2-3 instruments allowing an intimate focus on the distinct sound. This project was recorded in about 6 hours. We used Marcelino’s house in Buenos Aires. The only real problem we ran into was starting the recording around 4pm. I found that the Clicks and Pops that I would periodically suffering from in the past recordings were from power fluxes, in other words when everyone comes home from work and flicks on their lights etc. I get pops. So I had their whole project littered with pops… AHHHH A lot of tedious work to fix but it but, it turned out great in the end.



Espectáculo de World Music

This was a project performed by Ruben Carrasco and Norma Peralta. This is sort of an Argentine fusion mixing indigenous instrumentation and Post Columbian and World lyrics/vocal scales. This was recorded in a 10 hour session at my friends Walt and Fernanda’s house. We got some great tracks and some really interesting expressions.