Serenata de los Andes

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Serenata de los Andes is an ensemble formed in Lima, Peru in 2008 by Jean Pierre Magnet and is a tribute to Andean music, seeking to enhance and disseminate worldwide the musical experience of Peruvian Andes. Jean Pierre Magnet achieves through this project the recreation of Andean musical expression, aiming to cast a spell over the audience and invite it to experience the marvelous Andean landscape and vibrant culture “I aimed to make music through natural instruments, without electronic elements, and composed themes each of them re-creating a journey to different Peruvian destinations. I started by reneplacing keyboard chords and low bass tabs by saxophones and harps; incorporating the Andean violin instead of the classic one, the earthly sound of zampoñas, the charango which keeps the rhythm through rasgueo and the percussion which brings soul and pulse, invigorating each song as a great miracle…Serenata de los Andes is the result of my musical matureness. I feel privileged being able of magnifying the Andean music, respectfully, discovering a fresh language of regional integration and involving all ethnic backgrounds and cultures.” Serenata de los Andes is a blend of 17 musicians arranged into 6 sections: 5 saxophones, emulating the sound of the Mantaro Valley; 5 panpipes dialoguing with the sounds of the Altiplano; 5 violins, melancholics and Andean; the Andean harp, the guitar, the charango and, last but not least, the percussion, element conferring the solidness an