In the winter of 1889, in a small village south of the border, the destitute families of poor dirt farmers who had lost everything to the capricious whims of nature and the cruelty of their fellow man gathered in a dilapidated church to offer their meager thanks for the few remaining necessities of life.
Lifting three battered instruments in determined stoicism, these common, yet noble villagers joined in a hymn of celebration. Remarkably, one of Thomas Edison's assistants had been forced to take refuge in the town due to inclement weather while on a field expedition to capture sounds of the world for an early experimental version of what was to become the Edison Talking Machine or Gramophone.
Due to this fortuitous coincidence, we are graced with the opportunity to share in the pathos and triumph of these grand people through their music, which clearly speaks of the indomitable nature of the human spirit, in this rare recording by the group of musicians to be forever known as the Gazpacho Missionary Band.
And if you believe that, I've got a couple of acres of swampland I'm trying to get rid of....
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