Miguel Zenón feat. Spektral Quartet
Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert. |
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| 0:10.2 | Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. The I'm not going to be here. |
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| 6:35.0 | uh. The The And the The The the The The The The the The the The The Oh, oh, oh, oh, the The The The the The the the And the the The the The The The Thanks. Thanks so much. It's such a pleasure to be here with such a great fans of this series. |
| 12:17.0 | It's almost kind of unreal to actually be here playing music for all of you. |
| 12:22.0 | We want to thank our good friend Felix |
| 12:24.0 | Felis Conterras for making this happen. |
| 12:26.0 | Grasia Felix and all of you for being here. It's really a treat. |
| 12:30.0 | So we are playing music of a recent album released together called I'm La Tradition, which features |
| 12:40.4 | this amazing ensemble spectral quartet Russell Roland on the cello. |
| 12:44.0 | This is Doyle Amber's on the viola. May Feinberg on the violin and Clarin line on the violin. And Clarion on the violin. |
| 13:04.0 | So all this music is basically inspired by various traditions from the island of Puerto Rico, where I'm from, |
| 13:16.0 | both cultural and some musical traditions, some folkloric traditions, were the seed for a lot of this original compositions. |
| 13:23.9 | That last piece you heard was called Milag Rosa. |
| 13:26.6 | And that one is sort of inspired by a very, very deep and unique tradition |
| 13:30.1 | from Puerto Rico called the tradition of the promesa. |
| 13:32.5 | So like a promise you make to a religious deity in this case. |
| 13:36.2 | This was an allusion to the promesa |
| 13:38.3 | al-a-vis Grosa, miraculous virgin. |
| 13:41.6 | And then we started off with another piece that's inspired by another tradition |
| 13:45.1 | that that also has some religious connotations. That tradition is |
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