The Mayan Trumpet. Voice of Earth

Years ago, while playing a didgeridoo on the sidewalks of Mexico´s Playa del Carmen, musician Luis Bernardo Mendez Sanchez wa taken on a magical adventure that lead him to rediscover the same instrument in his own country, in the heart of the Mexican Lacandon forest. An inner voice led him to the Mayan Trumpet, known by its indigenous name "Incus utop chek" or "Tree flower trumpet".

To see the audio-slide show enter this link: www.chicosanchez.com/mayantrumpet

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

Here another story about the Mayan Ball Game: http://www.chicosanchez.com/mayanballgame

For more of my photography work please enter my website: www.chicosanchez.com

If you would like to buy prints of my work please click here

Petenera

Sharing my latest audiovisual about the Petenera Flamenca, a flamenco music style that branches off from the music of Peteneras, folk music with roots in both México and Spain.

The Petenera flamenca has been always surrounded in mystery, and has been one of the richest styles of flamenco music. Some believe it came from the Caribbean in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Other say the name "Petenera" comes from the name of the people who live in Peten, Guatemala. Others see its origins in religious and Gregorian Christian chants. Yet others point to the songs of the Spain´s King Alfonso X "The Wise".

During the 18th century, a female singer from Paterna de Rivera, called "La Petenera", put her signature on the Flamenco Petenera, making it very popular in southern Spain. Today the people from this town are the guardians of this style of flamenco.

To visit the audio-slide show enter this link: www.chicosanchez.com/petenera

 (Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

For more of my photography work please enter my website: www.chicosanchez.com

Singing the Suffering of Haiti

Singing the Suffering of Haiti is an audio-slide show from the New York Times made by photojournalist Todd Heisler and narrated by journalist Simon Romero. The piece is about Beken, a haitian singer-songwriter born Jean-Prosper Deauphin. It is a touching story about this musician playing again after the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010. 

To enter the audio-slide show please click in the photo.

(Photo ©Todd Heisler/New York Times-All Rights Reserved)

This piece was recognized by the Best of Photojournalism 2011 (BOP), a contest organized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

The Jazz Loft Project

Here is an audio-slideshow The Jazz Loft Project by New York Times. From 1957 to 1965 photographer W. Eugene Smith recorded  4,000 hours on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and took 40,000 photographs of major jazz musicians in a loft of Manhattan. This work was archived until Sam Stephenson published a book last year. Jeffrey Henson Scales produced this magnificent work. If you like Jazz you are going to enjoy this. To see the audio-slide show click in the picture.

(Photo ©Eugene Smith/The Jazz Loft Project-All Rights Reserved)

This piece got an award from the Best of Photojournalism 2011 (BOP), a contest organized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

For more information about this amazing project enter this link: www.jazzloftproject.org

The Gastorenian Pipe

I'm going to share a new audio-slide show about the Gastorenian Pipe, an ancient Iberian instrument made from a horn.

El Gastor is a small village in the Cadiz province of Andalusia, Spain. The residents in this little town are making a great effort to preserve this ancient musical instrument and I hope my audio-slide show helps them keep this tradition.

To enter the audio-slide show click here: http://www.chicosanchez.com/hornpipe/

(Photo ©Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved)

     To see more of my audio-slide shows please enter my website: http://www.chicosanchez.com

Jazz Funeral

Jazz Funeral is an amazing poem/song multimedia presentation by Orleans poet Chuck Perkins and photographer Andy Levin. Simply a work of art.

                       To enter the project click here: http://andylevin.com/multimedia/

(Photo ©Andy Levin-All Rights Reserved)