Los Tios are me and Roberto Sahonero from the legendary Bolivian band Los Masis. This is the first of a series of tunes put together with Robbie in Sucre, Bolivia. I spent a very happy couple of months at Los Masis headquarters above Cafe Florin there, learning charango from Gonzalo del Carpio and sharing musical ideas with Robbie. The Charango on the track is me and the Zamponas and Quenas are Robbie. The name Los Tios came out of the Bolivian Diablada tradition as El Tio (The uncle) is the lord of the underworld where the miners all have to work. The tune is a kind of mashup between the Tinku rhythm from Northern Potosi department and an old Peruvian Huayno melody. It's definitely a work in progress and it's hard to finish it off properly whilst I'm on the road in South America with just headphones to work with.