Desde Chile!
Muza, Subhira & Andrés Cóndon
Sunday October 04, 2009
$12 adv. $14 dr. - 8pm
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Canción de Chile
Great art is often born of great suffering. Such is the case in Chile where its citizens suffered artistic oppression for 17 years under the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Years of forced silence are now broken in stirring and beautiful ways, releasing songs that were born of suffering but rejoice in freedom.
On Sunday October 4th three different leaders of the modern music movement of Chile converge on one stage at La Peña Cultural Center to present their unique styles of music. Combining different global musical influences with their shared traditional rhythms and Latin roots each artist takes a different path to self expression but all cross genre boundaries to present a fresh new sound appreciated by audiences worldwide.
Muza
This two-time Independent Music Award winner blends her silky smooth vocals with dreamy arrangements and compositions that envelop her audience in a soft cloud of melancholy Jazz, Electro Latin Pop Funk she calls Bolero Electronico. CD Baby called her latest release, aptly named Terciopelo (Velvet), “…one of the best we’ve ever heard” featuring it on their Editor’s Choice list. She made her US debut opening for Suzanne Vega and is now garnering new fans everywhere she travels to perform from her new base in Taos, New Mexico.
Andres Condon
Andres is a multi instrumentalist, singer and composer. Through his music, he makes audible his love of nature and spirituality. He frequently experiments with sounds recorded directly in nature, which he merges with expressive material from vocalists as well as various instruments such as guitar, bandurria, mandolin, viola caipira, tiple and charango. He is recognized as one of the most important musicians from Chile in the genre of world music, having performed internationally in many concert halls and festivals including the Latin American Festival in the Royal Albert Hall in London and at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco. He spent several years in Seattle working with Jewel and now resides in Germany.
Subhira
Also a multi-instrumentalist, Subhira is a master of blending sounds of any instrument he gets his hands on (keyboards to didgeridoo to djembes) with any musical style (Celtic to African to Asian). The numerous CDs he has recorded or produced vary from New Age, World, Jazz and Dance Trance. Subhira tours regularly in Europe from his home in Santiago and regularly produces music for film and TV.
