All tracks of the album: ‘Pasiones y Rituales’
With your purchase you will get all downloadable tracks of the album. You can listen to samples below.
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QUIMERAS
About Quimeras
Quimeras, inspired by my aunt, musician and choir master, alludes to the bolero, central to Cuban and Latin popular music expressing intense
emotions.
ENCUENTROS
About Encuentros
Encuentros is dedicated to my mother, my first piano teacher, who taught me the art of feeling music, and to my father, an amateur percussionist and rumba dancer. This piece was written in Brixton, London, with the memory and the nostalgia of my own past, and the new richer musical and personal experiences with new colleagues and new people in my life.
MISA MATANCERA
About The Misa Matancera
The Misa Matancera (Mass) is dedicated to my sister Ana and her life companion Noelia. The connection between the Spanish and the Afro-Cuban cultures are expressed in the Misa through love. It is evocative of my childhood in Matanzas, where transculturation enveloped my sister and myself. The piece expands to merge amongst the ritualistic Afro-Cuban drums and voices interpreted and recorded by the Cuban master percussionists and singers of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, whom I directed in the Teatro Nacional in La Habana in 1992 using analogue reels. Then from the drums and the voices to the piano and the sounds of bells to reach the climactic moment of an invocation with voices, ritualistic drums and the piano allowing the apotheosis to take place for a cathartic finale.