Binni Gula'za

Binni Gula'za (Pronounced: Bin-ee Goo-lah-shah) is a vocal and guitar trio - Félix Jiménez Alvarez on lead guitar and vocals, Mateo López López, second guitar and vocals and Pablo Jeronimo Rasgado, requinto (a small, high-pitched guitar with 6 strings that is commonly used in Mexican traditional music. It is generally used by the romantic trios to play the distinctive solo parts in boleros and is plucked rather than strummed) and vocals. The trio plays sones istmeños, the traditional music of the Zapotec Indians who live in Oaxaca, a state located in the southeast portion of Mexico near the Guatemala border. Source:http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/musiclat/binni.html LINKS: Artist page in last.fm: Binni Gula'za We can find their music in several compilations: http://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/Native+American+Odyssey http://www.corason.com/espanol/discos/tortuga.html Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.