Slideshow: Banda Jimenez of Teotitlan del Valle

For our current issue, FADER #60, we visited Beirut’s Zach Condon in Brooklyn and talked to him at length about his experience recording his new March of the Zapotec EP with Banda Jimenez in Oaxaca, Mexico. Never satisfied to just hear about these things secondhand, we sent our very own John Francis Peters down to Teotitlan del Valle to photograph the members of Banda Jimenez in their hometown. Above, watch the slideshow of Peters’ images set to Beirut’s “La Llorna,” and after the jump, read Julianne Shepherd’s essay which accompanied the photos in the magazine.

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