Dorian Recordings

DOR-93230

Conga Line in Hell
MODERN CLASSICS FROM LATIN AMERICA
Joel Sachs conducting Camerata de las Américas
with
Duane Cochran, Piano
DOR-93230 Cover

Batata-Coco or The American Blender
A cosmopolitan city, a place of privilege for encounters, dialogues and clashes, suddenly realizes that an unprecedented phenomenon has come to being in its midst. Accustomed to speaking of itself in terms of Latin or Afro-American quarters, for instance, the city hesitates as it tries to find a name for the new space. Yesterday's adjectives seem unwieldy: the untiring blender of mestizaje and fusion has worked with such intensity that its labour finally muddles the limits between the neighbourhoods, and borders become tenuous in this new cartography. The city witnesses, reacting with alarm and enthusiasm, witnesses the appearance of a zone where the confrontation of traditions is so constant and dynamic that it becomes to no one and everyone at the same time.
So is Batata-Coco born. …
- José Wolffer
- Translation by Alan Stark and José Wolffer

Miguel del Águila (Uruguay, 1957)
[1.] Conga-Line in Hell 11:49

Arturo Márquez (México, 1950)
[2.] Danzón No. 4 10:39

Conlon Nancarrow (Estados Unidos/México, 1912-1997)
[3.] Primera pieza para pequeña orquesta 6:44

Roberto Sierra (Puerto Rico, 1953)
Cuentos
[4.] Lenguas desconocidas 3:52
[5.] Lo que pasó en las nubes 3:56
[6.] Batata-Coco (¿mambo?) 2:43

Alejandro García Caturla (Cuba, 1906-1940)
Primera suite cubana
[7.] Sonera 4:10
[8.] Comparsa 8:19
[9.] Danza 2:23

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (Brasil, 1907-1993)
[10.] Flôr de Tremembé 6:17

Total Program Length: 60:48

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