Album Notes

Tucked away atop Nicaraguan mountains and volcanoes, coffee farmers create passionate music about their rich, vivid culture. Finally, these unique and raw sounds have been recorded so they can be shared and experienced. Four groups of coffee farmers played for this album giving it a great representation of Nicaraguan traditional folk music.

We recorded these musicians totally live on a mobile direct to CD recorder in various locations- a coffee farm kitchen, in the HQ of CECOCAFEN coop in Managua- and after pushing our bus up several almost impassable Nicaraguan mountain roads we recorded in an old wooden storage barn in Achuapa. A town where the main transportation is on horseback.

Communication between the Sound Engineer SD Ineson and the musicians was accomplished via two other people Heather Putnam translating English to Spanish to Andres Ramon who converted those ideas into musical directions for the
groups.

The musicians played many songs (some with a history of 300 years!), and demonstrated how completely music and poetry is intrinsically entwined with their life as farmers, and the culture of Nicaragua.