Beethoven, Bach, Bartok, Paco de Lucia, Joe Oliver, Armstrong's Hot Seven, Bessie Smith, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Paco Penya, Gregorian Chant, Modern Jazz Quartet, Coleman Hawkins, Miles Davis, Rumillajta, Carlos Mejia Godoy, DonFelipe Urrutia y sus cachorros, the unnamed Salvadoran peasant who sings an unnamed song about the US-backed massacres and the murder of Archbishop Romero on an old unnamed tape .... Cutumay Camones, Inti Illimani, Scottish traditional songs, Woody Guthrie, and countless other wonderful musics and people besides
Sounds Like
Nothing like Bob Dylan - not even very much quieter.
Paul Baker Hernandez: Made guitar he still plays from monastic garbage (table leg, toilet seat (retired!)) while hermit/silent Trappist monk. Set out to be Bob Dylan II (but quieter). Tours UK/Europe/the Americas regularly.
Lives in shanty town of Managua, Nicaragua. Coordinates Echoes of Silence, artists/activists, 'with dirt under their fingernails', Cafe Sandino - a centre for popular struggle, and the Victor Jara Cultural Movement. Echoes of Silence is also a record label..
'Hernandez' honours Fatima, Paul's companera, and all women - most of the world's people yet deliberately under-represented where political/economic change could and should happen.
For daily update: http://echoesofsilence.pbwiki.com - an idiosyncratic journal of events in Nicaragua, The World and Everything.
Tour bookings/enquiries: paulbaker2004@yahoo.com
Contact numbers: Nicaragua (505) 405 2563; UK (44) 01225 866181; USA (1) 603 764 9948
