last night there was a fiesta for abuelo colque’s 68th birthday. layla heard the music and wanted to go over there. we walked out and the colque kids met us at the fence then invited us over. i took a little field recording as we were walking in. this morning i mixed it with king tubby’s ‘hungry belly dub.’ the idea was to capture what it feels like walking into a family-style asado / fiesta in latin america.

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notes:

1. night was pretty cold, around 40 degrees, clear, and one of the boys, paulo, asks @0:17 if layla is cold.
2. @1:03 couin (16) sings ‘olvidarme’ in drunken way.
3. @1:04 brisa (12) says to her cousin (16) ‘te vi tomando, no te confio mas.’ (i saw you drinking, i don’t trust you anymore’.)
4. @1:23 ‘hungry belly’ drops in.
5. @3:25 there is a clicking sound. it’s one of the colque men hammering a spit (that had a side of lamb flayed across it) deeper into the ground by fire.
6. started messing around with audio panning to duplicate way it feels when you walk around different places by the speakers.
7. mix ends with me greeting the family matriarch, adela colque.