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Duo Sinesi (Courtesy of the artists.)
Overview
Music of the Americas continues its online video series En Casa (At Home), featuring original daily performances with musicians from around the Americas.
Our Recuerdos (Memories) series takes a brief hiatus as we dedicate this week and focus our En Casa series on talented musicians from Argentina.
This week, En Casa returns to Argentina with a week of videos curated by radio host José Luis Ajzenmesser, who for the past three decades has been hosting La Guagua, a weekly show dedicated to the "less popular popular music," as he describes it. It airs on Saturdays at noon (local time) on Radio UB in Buenos Aires. Ajzenmesser selected a group of artists that infuse the country's traditional music with contemporary harmonies and textures. Also, many of the musicians play guitars with seven and eight strings.
Follow Music of the Americas on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to watch and receive notifications of all the performances. We also publish weekly calendars here on our website, including all the videos, so you can return to this page to catch up on any performances you might have missed.
Monday, August 31, 10 a.m.
En Casa: Claudio Ceccoli and Diego Suárez
Facebook: Ceccoli, Suárez
Claudio Ceccoli and Diego Suárez have enjoyed two decades of musical friendship, and the fact they are now neighbors in Buenos Aires made collaborating easier (until the pandemic struck, of course). They are currently working on an album called A los saltos, (Jumping Around) which includes the piece they sent us. Ceccoli plays an eight-string guitar, which opens a world of possibilities. "A los saltos" is the title track of their upcoming album, and is based in the Argentine folk rhythm chacarera, which alternates between instrumental interludes (in this case, guitar solos), and sung verses (in this case, played by the flute). The title refers to the wide leaps present in the melody.