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JAN. 4-THE BURNING BOWL
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Releasing the past and affirming
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JAN. 11-THE JOURNEY OF
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Sharon Salzberg writes, “I want to
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The community of those who,
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Putumayo Notes
World Music label celebrates 10 years.
V
isit Greater Goods, Sattva Gallery
or CD World in Eugene and you
will see a display of world music
CDs for sale. Images of brightly colored,
almost childlike drawings grace the CDs:
lemony suns, emerald jungles, azure skies,
a rainbow of skin tones. The inviting dis-
plays tempt you with contemporary and tra-
ditional music from Puerto Rico, Cuba,
Africa, the American South, Arabia.
Christmas music with an African
groove. Children’s music featuring Zydeco
tunes. It’s all there in the display, courtesy
of the Putumayo World Music record label,
which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary
this year.
The label has made exponential leaps in
name recognition in recent years, and even
made a pop culture impact when, in May
1997, “Sienfeld’s” Elaine shopped in a
Putumayo store.
Founded by Dan Storper in 1993, the
Putumayo name has graced a line of natural
fiber clothing in addition to the record label.
A syndicated radio show co-hosted by
Storper himself, “The Putumayo World
Music Hour,” began in 1999.
Just how did a Colombian river valley
became synonymous with the world music
aesthetic? In 1975 after graduating from
college, Storper traveled extensively to sup-
port his foundling handicraft and import
clothing business.
“One of the places I went to, because I
was interested in the crafts of South
America, was a little town called Sibundoy
in Colombia,” he says. “It was a very pow-
erful moment that I had when I first went
there. I happened to show up on Carnival. I
was sitting by a stream, looking out at the
Andean mountains in the background, the
birds were chirping, flying around in cir-
cles, and the native Indians, the indigenous
people from that area, were coming back
from the countryside and putting on their
colorful costumes. There was something
very special, unique and magical about that
moment, so when I decided I was going to
start a business importing handicrafts, I
decided to call it ‘Putumayo.’”
In the beginning, Storper stocked his
stores with music from South America to
play during open hours. However, in San
Francisco, he entered one of his stores and
found the staff playing — horrors! — heavy
metal music. He then commissioned special
mix tapes to play in his stores, which were
instantly popular.
This led inexorably to the creation of
packaged music CDs on the Putumayo
label featuring melodic, upbeat and, Storper
hopes, universally appealing music from
around the globe.
Storper kept the clothing line going until
1997, then shuttered it to focus on the label.
Over the years Putumayo has released more
than 100 CDs, mostly compilations but also
individual artists such as Zimbabwe’s Oliver
Mtukudzi, Chilean Mariana Montalvo and
Laura Love, who grew up in Nebraska.
Though Putumayo has covered many
parts of the globe, Storper says there’s
much left to explore. “We’re about to start
working on a tango album that is mostly
Argentinian, even though it’s Latin
American.” he says. “We’ve done very lit-
tle with Argentinian music. We’ve really
never done an Eastern European compila-
tion or an Australian compilation. There are
plenty areas of the world and quite a few
themes we’ve never done.”
Given Putumayo’s self-imposed sched-
ule of one adult CD released per month
(with the exception of December when
there are no releases) and two children’s
CDs per year, there’s plenty of room to
grow. Storper says Putumayo is planning on
entering the visual world in the near future,
including a DVD series next year in May
with music video and concert footage.
Before that, March will see the creation
of a series of culturally themed notecards,
journals and calendars.
In Eugene, Putumayo’s world music is
aired on KRVM 91.9 FM every Saturday at
10 am.
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