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Duo Chehebar - Navarro
1+ albums
argentinafolkandesandinapanpipes
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Overall, the music of Duó Chehébar-Navarro is a conjunction of traditional, folkloric Andean music with contemporary Western melodic structures, instrumental colors, and harmonies. In particular, the music capitalizes on "underutilized and hidden capabilities" of Andean wind instruments, including their chromatism, easy adaptability to forming strong counterpoint to Roberto's piano, and capacity for rendering complex melodies. Roberto Navarro was born in Entre Ríos, Argentina (1952), while Claudio Chehébar was born in Buenos Aires (1954). Both had formal musical training as they grew to adulthood. In 1987, Claudio Chehébar and Roberto Navarro formed Duó Chehébar-Navarro in Bariloche, an Andean town in the Patagonia of Argentina. The Duo's original music (composed largely by Roberto Navarro) has multiple roots in Argentina's many distinctive regions, but is fundamentally based on Patagonian rhythms such as the loncomeo, which you may hear in the tune "El País de las Manzanas." Other rhythms used by the Duo are from the northwest of Argentina, and are played on instruments particular to that area, such as the Andean flutes called quena and sikus). Duó Chehébar-Navarro, aesthetically and psychically committed to its Andean folk music roots, never loses itself to homegenized fusions. The character of Andean flutes and panpipes are so distinctive that it would be hard to bury their voices in bland Westernizations, even if the Duo chose to diverge from strong Patagonian and
