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NORTHEAST INTUNE MAGAZINE INKA SPIRIT, Lynette Yetter Review by Susan Frances If you can imagine what air, water, fire, and earth sound like in music notes, then you can imagine what Lynette Yetter's songs sound like. The verses are spiritual in nature and have a worldly richness. Lynette Yetter is a wind player, singer, and composer trained in chamber music and jazz flute. She fell in love with the panpipes and uses them as her chief mode of expression. For this album entitled "Espiritu Incaico / Inka Spirit", she played panpipes, kena, drum, antara nazca, kena chincha, percussion, and lead vocals. Joining her are Hiroyuki Akimoto on guitar and harmony vocals, Juan Carlos Cordero on guitar and harmony vocals, Rosario Paredo on charango, and Alejandro Alarcon on panpipes and kena. Her song "Memory" is an instrumental piece that uses these wind, string, and drum tools in a delightful array of swirling, airy, and high rising motions. It sounds like the wind blowing as it rumples ocean waves, kindles fires and swishes through earth's fauna and flora. The fluxes and peaks in the instrumentation are natural and possess musical aspects in ethnic music from South America and Japan. Her song "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" is pronounced with a Western Andes seasoning and peaceful chants as the lyrics recite: We are rich in spirit We are the Pachamama (space/time continuum) We are the Virgin (Mary) We are divinity We are eternity With our music and culture We can change the world. The song makes humans one with nature through the vibrations echoing in the bamboo reeds. Her song "Noqa Minero Kani" is a trance like mix of swirling pipes, gorgeous moving textures, expansive wavelengths, and sensory chanting. Her music gives nature its own expressive sound. Lynette has recorded two CD's from which many of her songs have been used on television specials and in films in the UK and the Americas. Her songs have been played on radio stations in Bolivia, Ireland, and the US. She is a member of the Society of Ethnomusicology and speaks Spanish and Quechua. She is currently developing a production tentatively titled "Tales of the Andes", a one woman theatre show about a free-spirited Californian who goes to the Andes to follow her dream to be a panpipe player and gets tangled in political intrigue. Subject matters that she knows a great deal about and can speak of. You can purchase the CD "Espiritu Incaico / Inka Spirit" online at www.amazon.com and www.musicandes.com.
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