World Music October 16th

We made a non-stop trip to Palestine to present the Trio Joubran, consisting of the brothers Samir, Wissam and Adnan, who play Arabic jazz. Then we hear Sferraina, son to sleep, with Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, a jarocho group of musicians who plays baroque music. Its members are Leopoldo Novoa, Enrique Barona and Eloy Cruz, they studied musical institutions in Mexico, Colombia, United States and France. The third music position was the New York group specialist in downtempo and electronic music Si Sé , with two songs: Hawaii Slip and Rain. To finish this segment dancing, Godo played We are the champions by Pery Ribeiro, a Brazilian singer and composer who died in Rio de Janeiro on February 24th, 2012. Continuing in Brazil, we played Os Ingenuos’s choro, a musical genre considered the first Brazilian urban music. To finish in Brazil we presented the jazz singer and pianist: Maria Joao and the pianist from the same genre: Mario Laghinia.

Una novia vestida de rojo  is a song of the music group from Clejani commune, Giurgiu district in Romania, Taraf de Haïdouks, one of the most famous groups of the post-communist era, we started a second segment with the group: Etta James and the soong “Queen of the rhythm&blues”. We continued with the black roots and one of the best drummers from West Africa, Mamady. And we closed with La danza del prisionero Muzeze  by Engbaka Muzeze Philippe and Aketi.

Because the local is part of this, we listened Maqueta, a project by Marisol Valdez Hamed, singer of “folk intimo" from Mexicali, Baja California. Maqueta (as says their official website) is the resolution of the creative limbo in which she was immersed for years practicing professionally as a programmer. Chimera was the song we hear from the singer from Mexicali, who performs his music with an ukulele, guitar and keyboard. Then we had, El Cielito Lindo, with the Trio Armonia Huasteca. Then we enjoyed El Cartero, sang by Victor Jara; a musician, songwriter and Chilean theater director, and who was tortured and murdered in the antique Victor Jara Stadium in Chile in 1973 by repression forces of the dictatorship by Augusto Pinochet, shortly after the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende. To finish with another less introspective mood, we listened the Colombian cumbia; El Cafetero.

We said goodbye with a music transmission, as it is the purpose of this program, which came from various corners of the world. From Mali we listened to Fady Yeina, by the musician Baba Salah, who has clear Music of the Desert and the Malian assets roots. We also listened by Mali, Ihama by Kel Tin Lokiene. From France to the jazz music fusionists of the 30s with contemporary music: Sanseverino. And finally we enjoyed the song Tawargit, by the music group Aza, who perform electronic music and Middle Eastern music.

Translated by: Ana Elizabeth Olguín Vargas