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Hiam Records was a DIY label. It managed at least one
single. It issued singles in an HIAM-100 numerical series. Distributed By
Hiam Records. Incantation are a musical group playing traditional tribal and
other South American music. The band started in 1981 from a pool of musicians
who were, at the time, playing all kinds of different types of music for the
(then) Ballet Rambert, based in London. A new ballet was choreographed (called
"Ghost Dances") about political oppression in South America, to the music of
Inti-Illimani, the exiled Chilean folk group. The company preferred to use live
musicians (rather than tapes) for performances, and six of the musicians
volunteered. Members of the various incarnations of the band include Tony
Hinnigan (Scottish), Mike Taylor (Irish), Forbes Henderson (English), Simon
Rogers (English), Chris Swithinbank, and Chileans Claudia Figuerora, Sergio
Avila and Mauricio Venegas.
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