#timpana

callout post @ a food network fb post showing a video of “timpano” being made:

THAT’S A MALTESE FOOD. IT’S NOT NEW.

(also your version looks bad, todd.)

the video says “Chef Laurence Edelman got the idea from the film “Big Night” and I don’t know that movie but TIMPANA is maltese pasta pie, basically, with tomato and beef in the pasta and a crust over it. 

the food network dish is baked pasta “in a pasta shell” which imo looks like a shitty replacement for a crust to me bc it’d get dried out.

I had timpana two and a half years ago visiting family in Malta. My uncle Edgar and aunt Berta made food for like 15 people at the table in the back garden, by the well. (maltese houses usually have a small courtyard with a garden; this one was mostly flowers and a couple lemon trees, with the walls high enough you can’t see over them at my height.)  We had tomato on bread (hobz biz-zejt) and pastizzi, and TIMPANA uncle Edgar made. I remember it very distinctly because both my brother and I were vegetarians but we had to eat everything we were given to not be rude, and maltese people serve a /lot/ of food. we were not able to really eat/digest meat anymore. so we both admitted to each other later that we were feeling sick from the timpana, lmao.

go ahead and enjoy maltese food, even the bad food. please! i’m half-maltese, of course i’ll encourage you to eat! but please give credit. (and do it right.)

Timpana - Gwandena - lush folktronica, with the folk being from the Andean and Amazonian regions of South America

TIMPANA creates her own sound based on native vocal techniques from Bolivia and the world.

Since 2009 with her debut album Alma Perdida she has come with a world music influence that now with Gwandena she experiments even more with electronic elements and sounds, indigenous instruments, native songs in Spanish, Quechua and Guarani, with a strong Afro Andean Amazonian influence.

On Gwandena, the Bolivian artist TIMPANA maps out a metaphysical journey across her home country, and through various states of being. Indigenous and African instrumentation meet electronic drums and synths on an album that veers between moments of slowly-revealing transcendence and urgent, rhythmic cries as the world appears different to how we ever imagined it. TIMPANA began as a duo, but has been the solo project of artist, performer and musician Alejandra Lanza for over 10 years. Gwandena is the first solo album in this iteration, and sees Lanza working with fellow Bolivian producer Chuntu, as well as fellow masters of Afro-Andean wind and percussion instruments. Together they have created a work that is complex in both its musical construction – being that it references and merges rhythms and cadences from the Andes, Amazon and Afro-Latin traditions – and in its narrative. Gwandena tells the story of Talina, a young girl on a journey of self-knowledge. She is guided by a hummingbird called Jovi and must come face-to-face with herself, but not in a way she ever planned.