The music that is danced to by many of the groups in the Pinotepa area is a strange drone-like combination of violin and guitar, although many times it is just solo violin.
As a trained musician and as one who basically enjoys everything, I absorbed it, drank it in, but did not analyze the sounds. All I can say is that it is a strange sound, rough and crude, but mesmerizing.
With the never ending pulse of the sonajas, the shakers. the effect is trance-like, akin to Eastern Indian music. Every now and then a singer will join in while playing drums on a wooden box. These guys were very funny, no-nonsense leg pullers.
The dancers cry out together on a strong beat every thirty seconds or so and someone periodically makes the sound of a rooster. Those are all rooster plumes on the headdresses the dancers are wearing.
There were young players this year but the sound was the same, the violin creating that curious trance. I got some good recordings with the video and will get them up soon.
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