Music from Other Worlds (subtitle: 'listen to a fool)
Totó La Momposina - La Candela Viva (live at Real World Studios)
"...so you can stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with bagpipes that are heard by only a handful of people, and not even their relatives buy them!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, the arrogant know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy said in that movie... I invite you to listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has come my way over the years. You, heed a fool's advice, lose yourselves for 5 minutes because listening (reading, watching, eating, sniffing...) to the same old things that you already know how they are, without taking any risks, will simply lead to your brain atrophying.
8) Totò la Momposina and Her Drums
Sonia Bazanta Vides carries on her shoulders a family tradition spanning 5 generations of musicians. Born in 1940, daughter of a percussionist and a singer/dancer, she left her village of Talaigua Nuevo in Colombia and arrived in Paris and London (at the court of Peter Gabriel) and at the University of Bogotá as a teacher, while always remaining a "cantadora del pueblo."
Her extraordinary music, as Totó herself explains, "has its roots in a mixed race; being African and Indigenous, the heart of the music is completely percussive."
Only voice and percussion for a hot and vital, wild and ancient music.
She has recorded 8 fantastic albums, but at least the 2 with RealWorld are ABSOLUTELY MUST-HAVES!
And don’t say I didn’t tell you.