“The Icaros are a kind of creation, sound is creation, eventually if something is god, it is sound, it is vibration; the most beautiful and the most subtle of all vibrations.” For artist and musician Tito La Rosa, the jungle taught him a silence that emanates from within all of its sound.

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In the 90’s, he was invited to Tarapoto to meet Cucha del Aguila; a storyteller from the Iquitos jungle who sought his collaboration on an album “Ayahuasca. Journey, Tales and Legends.” This would also be his first experience with ayahuasca from the master Solon Tello whereby listening to the chants of master Tello, Tito would experience a modification of his inner frequencies through the subtle vibrations of the Icaros (sacred songs) and the sacred vine. His relationship to sound and his understanding of emptiness and silence would forever be transformed.

After these experiences the project of the album began, whose objective was to interrelate the Icaros and the chants of power with his music and that of Tavo Castillo. The intention was to unite the ancestral and the contemporary, to create a dialogue of spheres, a dialogue of dreams, of different times and spaces. This is when they invited Amelia Panduro to come to Lima to be part of the project and sing her Icaros. There they would recreate elements of the jungle inside the recording studio. He would soon forge a friendship with Amelia with many visits to her home in the Ucayali jungle. This composition reinterprets the memory of that time.

This original composition is composed and played by Tito La Rosa featuring *Amelia Panduro; Shipibo-Konibo master and specialist in medicinal and shamanic plants of the Noya Rao lineage, artist and guardian of the sacred chanting tradition.

*Amelia Panduro Icaro from the album “Icaro-Shamanic Songs” (2003), produced and remixed in the studio of Pepe Chiriboga (Lima, 2022). 

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Biography | Tito La Rosa (Cusco, Peru)

Tito La Rosa is a Peruvian musician, composer, musical instruments maker, and sound healer through ritual music. For the last 40 years he has worked with healing through sound, using ancestral instruments from ancient Peru and contemporary instruments from different parts of the world. Within his musical repertoire he incorporates the sonic universe of ancient Peru through handmade instruments such as stone ocarinas, bone quenas, feather and ceramic antaras, whistling vessels, pututos, quenas and bamboo flutes, drums and rattles; creating a sacred, acoustic and healing space, establishing a dialogue of the times to fulfill an inner journey. 

Tito has taken his musical proposal to different parts of the world, participating in various cultural events and international festivals. He has 12 musical productions, where he highlights the "Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor" nominated as the best music album in the world at NAMA (Native American Music Awards). In addition, he was invited by the Japanese musician Kitaro to participate in his album "Thinking of You", which won a Grammy in 2000.

He currently lives in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco (Peru), where he has founded the "Escuela de Sonidos Perú", the "Museo del Sonido" and the "Casa del Sonido", a space where he shares retreats, training workshops and different experiences of deep work with sound and tradition.

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A special thank you to Maestra Amelia Panduro whose ícaros are featured in this composition for Crafting the Field series 12.

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Check out the full Crafting the Field series on our bandcamp page.

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