This Indian carol is a bailecito. This is a two-person dance from North Argentina Its form is particular: A – B (vuelta) – A (“segunda”) – B (vuelta), similar to the minuet. Rhythms 3/4 and 6/8 are mixed. This song can be sung accompanied or not. If there are instruments, they should double the voices or replace them to insure an alternation between voices and instruments. Jean-Michel Cayre was born in 1949 in Lyon. He learned how to play the piano with Fernando Via, who was himself a student of Granados. He studied at Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Lyon then at Conservatoire International de Musique de Paris. He is an instrumentalist who’s specialized in playing the instruments from the Andes. He has been a part from the ensemble Los Chacos since 1965; they won the International Grand Prix from Charles Cros Academy, and they recorded 12 albums and appeared on international stages. He did work together with famous French artists like Richard Anthony, Michel Legrand and Charles Trénet. He is a teacher at ENM de Villeurbanne, and he created the first European workshop of Andean instruments in 1979. He also wrote about sixty compositions for plays, ballets, movies, TV series and radio.
