Maya Sonora (Resounding Maya) – Manongo Mujica

Maya Sonora (Resounding Maya)

MayaSonora
Artist: Manongo Mujica
Label: La Encía del Leopardo
Release Date: 2016-05-01
Genres: Avant Garde, Experimental, Free Jazz

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Tracklist

1. Homenaje a Kurosawa Buy Track
2. Hipnótico Buy Track
3. Fusión de Almas Buy Track
4. Africana Buy Track
5. Brujería Buy Track
6. Mural Latinoamericano Buy Track
7. Planeta del Viento Buy Track
8. Operación Rescate Buy Track
9. Máncora Buy Track
10. Andino Majestuoso Buy Track

About Album

Drums resemble a small percusión orchestra, the marvelous idea to put together heavenly elements in one instrument, such as cymbals, gongs, chymes and also elements from earth, such as drums, kick snares and snares.  Drums is a unique instrument, for a drummer cannot only keep the pulse of the music, but also create music atmospheres, colors and textures specially enriching any sound proposal.  Another aspect of drums is the possibility of learning how to play it with independence between hands and legs, thus being able to play a sort of polyrhythm, several voices simultaneously.  Drums has the faculty of holding and changing the tempo of the music.  There are rhythm drummers, atmosphere drummers, landscape drummers.  There are also melody and lyric drummers, able to combine all these possibilities in a broader art. 

The Drummer will be always the heart of the Music. 

There are basically two main sound experiences:  the manifested sound, namely, the sound played and felt through any instrument, and the inaudible sound, quiet and maybe previous to the manifested sound.  This CD attains through drums and other several percussion instruments, to reunite both experiences.  This subtle sound or quiet music lies within all music and acts as a great web that wraps it all.  Depending on our ability to listen, we can transform both experiences into a bigger one.  So listen up…