La Chacana

An invitation to meditation and dreaming, we invite you to take a breathless journey into the world of the flutes of humanity's ancient civilizations: from medieval double flutes, direct descendants of the flutes and Aulos of Greek and Roman antiquity, to the double and triple flutes of the ancient civilizations of Mexico, the 3-hole flute and drum of medieval minstrels, which have survived in many traditions of France and Spain, but also among many Amerindian peoples from Mexico to Peru, whether made of bone, ceramic, reed or bamboo, wood, hollowed (North American plains Indians' love flute), or turned (Western recorders)... to seduce the living or communicate with the spirits.

“Be above all a beast of breath” said Franz Bruggen in his provocative way during the master classes he gave at the end of the 70s... or “a mystic of breath”, as several traditions suggest...

This program is therefore a questioning of the original power of music generated by this “primal” breath, which can lead to trance, meditation or jubilation, built on my need to breathe and on the universal quest for the present moment...

Pierre Hamon, recorders, frestel, double and triple flutes from Medieval Europe and pre-Columbian America, flute and drum and other ...

Program :

Hymn to the wind in the form of a short prelude improvised on a prehistoric vulture-bone flute (copy of the vulture-bone flute found at Isturitz, Basque Country - 20,000 BC)

Hymn to heaven in the form of an improvised ritual dance on a pan flute made of condor plumes

Guiraut Riquier
Creire m'en fach, 13th century, Frestel (medieval panpipes)

Anonymous
Lucente Stella, ballata, 14th century Italy, medieval double flute

Istanpitta
In pro, 14th-century Italy, recorder

Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377)
Complainte, Tel rit au main, recorder

Istanpitta
Chominciamento di gioia, Italy 14th century, recorder

Anonymous
Lai du Chèvrefeuille, France, 13th century, flute and drum

Ritual 1 / Omaggio Kogui (Colombia)
Improvisations based on ritual melodic and rhythmic motifs of the Wiwa and Kogui Amerindians of Colombia, kuisi (Colombia)

Aa, Sumak Kancakchaska (traditional, Hymn to the Sun, collected late 19th century in Huanaco, Peru) Siku.
*El Baile del Inca, traditional, collected in Copacabana, Peru, by Luis Girault, 1954
*Prayer for Mother Earth, traditional Bolivian Sicuri      

The Butterfly Song (traditional tune from the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico) 
Traditional Nipmuc flute (Algonquin Indians)

Improvisations on various instruments from the pre-Columbian civilizations of South America:

Small Aztec flute
Ocarinas from the ancient Gulf civilization - Mexico
Quena Chincha (ceramic notched flute from the Chincha civilization - Peru)
Snake-shaped triple flute (Mexico - Gulf civilization)

Improvisation on Antara Nazca ceramic panpipes
On original scales from the Nazca civilization (Peru 20 BC / 600 AD)
Whistling vases (Vicus civilization - Peru 500 BC / 500 AD)...