Sonámbula Radio
10.05.23
This special episode of Sonámbula Radio discusses an upcoming music portal opening in LA:
AL SUR DE LA FRONTERA weaves together traditional music, ritual, performance art, and experimental electronic sound. This world premiere event will take place at 8:00pm on Friday, October 6, 2023 at The Ford.
Featuring the LA-based Maqueos Music Oaxacan Youth Philharmonic Brass Band, multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood, Mixtec rapper Una Isu, coloratura Soprano Maria Elena Altany, “futuristic laser gangster bass” electronic musician Baseck, conductor extraordinaire Yulissa Maqueos, and the Mexicanextreme vocalist and interdisciplinary artist Carmina Escobar.
We interview Carmina Escobar and learn about how this project came to be and discuss the ways sound always escapes containment.
Tracklist:
Maria Elena Altany – Hopscotch, Ch. 36: “To Find the Center”
Dorian Wood, Carmina Escobar – De Cara a La Pared
Banda Regional Princesa Donashii – La Llorona
Grupo de Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC – Báilalo
Yma Sumac – Chuncho (The Forest Creatures)
Dorian Wood – Rómpame Macorina
Una Isu – Mixteco es un lenguaje
Dorian Wood – Song For Brown Children
Baseck – TIME TO PARTY
Eblen Macari – La Constelación de Pejelagarto
Banda Donashii – Celosa
Lila downs – La Sandunga
Las Cafeteras – Oaxaca Love Song No. 2
Carmina Escobar – Archivo Qaliticum Encuentro Internacional de Poesía Sonora Voz Liminal
Dorian Wood – Miserere
Dorian Wood – Corpulenxia
BACKGROUND SONGS
Doctor Stereo – La Cumbia Perdida
Sola Rosa – Del Ray
