Dokuro is proud to present "Pucullpa to Iquitos riverboat pop manglings " the new effort of  New Zealand artist Antony Milton, recorded upon the 'Gilmer IV', a cargo ship that carries stores and passengers along the Pucullpa and Amazon Rivers between the jungle cities of Pucullpa and Iquitos in Peru.

The basic methodology was to play over the top of a random selection of Peruvian pop songs (recorded off the radio in advance ) building up layers- including vocals- before finally deleting the original radio track.

There are a couple of interesting anomalies to this pattern. .. Milton wrote in his trip diary:
"One day the captain of Gilmer IV called into my cabin, a small old indigenous Amazonian guy in flip flops shorts and singlet (no gold braid here!). He was intrigued by my miniature electric guitar (I had bought this in a market in the highlands). He had never played guitar before but was keen to give it a go and did an epic noise solo for 20 minutes or so, laughing his head off. Unfortunately it only occurred to me to record this in the last minute or so.
Another track was recorded with one of the other passengers onboard, a 'businessman' who was on his way to Iquitos. We became drinking buddies of a sort and he was really intrigued by what I was up to.
One day he recorded me onto his cellphone and played that back to me and we came up with a piece that includes that and also him doing percussion (of a sort). This is the most ambient track on the disk..