Tag: Andean
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly’s MESTIZX for International Anthem & Nonesuch – avant-jazz and punk-ethos channel ancestral roots
A deep and experimental jazz album is the musical creation of multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly. The wife and husband team – Bolivian-born singer Ferragutti and Rosaly of Peurto Rican heritage, are co-composers, arrangers and musicians, on the MESTIZX LP for International Anthem & Nonesuch – channel their…
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Latin American cosmology inspires the new album ‘Siku’, by Ecuadorian producer Nicola Cruz
A focus on ancestral Latin American cosmology has always featured in the music of Nicola Cruz. The Ecuadorian searches into the roots and rituals that are found in the origins of Andean and African culture, so heavily influential in South American identity. His latest album Siku continues this retrospective study and explores the rhythms and oral aspects…
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New book and CD celebrates Peruvian music and culture
This is a must for Latin music enthusiasts. Online blog Sounds and Colours has published Peru – a document of everything that’s happening in Peruvian culture right now, as well as its cultural past and astonishing musical legacy. The book has 200 pages of articles, illustrations and photos, along with a 19-track CD full of…
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