To the Inti-Illimani canon, Jorge Ball contributed an instrumental, "La Marusa." Fasten your seat-belts before you listen to this one, it goes like a bat out of you-know-where. There is a live version on "Sing to Me the Dream," the live Holly Near album when she was accompanied on tour by the Inti. The studio version appears on the Inti's instrumental album, "Imagination."

Future posts to this thread will quote from "La cancion en el sombrero," the autobiography by guitarist/music-director Horacio Salinas (currently of Inti-Illimani Historico). Salinas is partial to Ball, and has many specific observations about him. Alas, it sounds as though other long-time members close to Salinas are not as delighted with Ball as he is. But Salinas has to live with these others, so he does not expose their identities.