With the system of improvisation developed in the Time Bomb, percussionist Santiago Vázquez ups the ante and add bases, strings and wind to mix very new rhythms and sounds in a unique show. By Sergio Sánchez María Luz Carmona Stock
Buenos Aires, March 1 (Agency NAN-2011 ) .- The director is not afraid pulse: her subtle enough to pass a sign to his companions for the music to change course and become a storm of exquisite sounds and blends. The scene seems to belong to a typical salon orchestra or chamber. But no: it is a percussion band that uses improvisation as an engine for creating and multi-instrumentalist whose leader is Santiago Vázquez. Like every Friday in February, La Grande, the last and most ambitious musical project was presented Vázquez-Cultural City Konex (Sarmiento 3131) and close the cycle this week.
The musical is interesting on several fronts: one show is that each involving a different female voice. "There is Juana Molina," whispered one hardly saw her standing near the stage. The singer never lost sight of what was going up, I knew that this was a unique fact. The acclaim came quickly. The talented artist who chose to leave behind his role acting and devote himself to music crept on stage and took over the microphone. At first it felt a little uncomfortable or lost but soon understood how came the hand and began to speak the same language. So it is heard humming a tune that seemed to cross jazz with pop, but without mentioning a word (at least, none that appear in any dictionary.) Sure, some improvisation actors know. And by popular demand, the singer will rise to the tables as guest of honor on Friday.
is not easy to define La Grande: it is a kind of musical steamroller that has elements of both African rhythms and electronic music and hang proposes a constant, ideal to let the music put the body in of frenzy. But beware, this is a show not for ears accustomed to the format or the radio hit song. No room for the chorus or for catchy melodies. The musicians improvise in real time from bases that blend and change permanently. And that's where it becomes important sign system invented by Vázquez to create and compose live, a technique that also implements a similar way in his most famous: La Bomba de Tiempo (a phenomenon that moves thousands of people every time presented). What is really new about La Grande is a show that never equal to another, each subject or composition, which can last 15 minutes or more, is unique and happening here and now. However, Vazquez plans to release an album that brings together this blend of sounds this summer.
Stopping to look at the audience can be an equally strange experience: just beginning the concert, a kid curls her body shakes as if in a blender or electrocuted and a girl flashing is at a rave. Near them, a couple dances as if faced with a reggae band. Each enjoys its own way, no matter what. What is impossible is to be indifferent to that explosion of percussion it invites to go with the dancing and definitely losing modesty. One of the few words he says the director throughout the night, when the band falls silent for a moment, it seems an irony: "I do not know if this can dance."
And magically pulls out a whistle, who knows where and into complicity with his band: outlines a melody that winds imitate to perfection, without notice or mistaken to him to lose concentration. In other passages of the show, those same players back in time, traveling from miles away and even evoke the customs of traditional communities. On stage will accommodate the members of the tribe who give life to the ritual: Ezequiel Borra experimenting with his guitar, saxophonist and trumpeter Rodrigo Domínguez Suárez Juanfe jazzeros provide the air and spills, drummers Paul Bendov and Diego Lopez de Arcaute are the lungs of the band's bass work of unifying Mariano Dominguez. And before them is the head of the tribe, Vazquez, who would smoke out the marimba (a sort of wooden xylophone) and not get music to anything: whistles, everyday items and even a kazoo, rightly cohesive whole. Backed by samples and a powerful rhythm section, La Grande no longer has the outline of a band (albeit an unconventional) and up are allowed to transit through the funk, Balkan music and rock.
* La Grande will be presented on Friday at 00.30 in Cutural Konex City, Sarmiento 3131. Will be the guest singer Juana Molina.
Site: http://www.santiagovazquez.com/
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