TIERRA DEL FUEGO by Hugh Levick published on 2016-06-02T01:48:04Z TIERRA DEL FUEGO is based on Selk’nam, shamanic chants from Tierra del Fuego. The Selk’nam (also known as the Ona) as a tribe ceased to exist some decades ago. In the 1960’s Alan Lomax made a recording for his Folkways label of the tribe’s last shaman. In writing TIERRA DEL FUEGO my intention was to put together a remnant from the archaic past with the string quartet writing that I am doing in the early 21st century. The Selk’nam were driven to extinction, a condition which hovers above our own heads. And the songs are chants of healing . Genre Classical
