A distinct presentation, each for the general public and the musicians, might be skilled this Saturday on the remaining of the Identidades Competition, which started final week in Antofagasta.
The development is celebrating its 10th version within the Atacama Barren region, with a program that comes with appearing arts displays from Rapa Nui, Brazil, Peru, Antofagasta and Santiago.
The day might be led via the Afro-Brazilian musical workforce, Höröyá, which can be offering, beginning at 8:30 p.m., on the Huanchaca Ruins Amphitheater (Av. Angamos 1606), a live performance that mixes conventional and trendy, with sounds starting from Pop to Funk/Jazz and standard rhythms of African and Brazilian tradition.
Andre Piruka, chief of the band, says that it is going to be the primary time in Chile and the primary time leaving Brazil.
“This presentation is in point of fact particular for the gang. We’re very excited! We are hoping for just right exchanges with everybody on the pageant, that we will be able to honor this invitation via making a very good presentation,” he tells The Counter.
Trail
The gang is made up of Brazilian and African musicians, and has a protracted historical past.
“We can carry out with songs from our 4 albums. Complete band, with 9 musicians, a dancer and some other particular visitor, Diarra Conde, a Guinean percussion trainer based totally in Chile, who has been our spouse for a very long time,” celebrates Piruka.
The musician says that the gang has existed for 9 years, with 4 albums launched. Based via Piruka, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, and spouse of West African academics and musicians, it makes a connection between Brazil and Africa, in tune and different cultural initiatives.
Particularly, the gang attracts on some components of Afro-Brazilian tradition, basically Candomblé, and likewise West African cultures (Guinea, Mali and Senegal), along with Afrobeat and jazz.
Exchanges
The gang was once contacted after a presentation they gave within the south of Brazil, in Porto Alegre.
“It was once an overly particular efficiency, on the opening of a dance and function pageant. This presentation took place sooner than the pandemic and we spent these kinds of years looking to protected our travel to the Identidades Competition,” explains Piruka.
“This can be very essential to take part on this pageant, reinforcing cultural exchanges and actions inside Latin The usa and South-South family members.”
When requested what artists and works they know from Chile, he solutions that “Pablo Neruda and Violeta Parra are names and works provide since early life, however extra present references are lacking.”
“I’ve touch with Chilean African tune and dance artists. This motion is more potent in Chile than in Brazil, and the interactions have all the time been superb. Other people and teams with numerous focal point and willpower to this artwork, doing it with high quality,” he concludes.
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