Black Angel with bright white soul

by Petar PLAMENOV


18 May (Wednesday), 2011
 
Sofia Live Club
Start: 20:00,
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Susana Baca returned to Sofia already for the third time. In an interview for big Bulgarian newspaper the singer from Peru said that longs for meetings with the Bulgarian public. Bulgarian audience, which is touched to her ​​sweet voice and her incredibly beautiful music, responded with no less spontaneous affection of love.

Nicknamed the « Black Angel » of Afro Peruvian music, Susana Baca mixes African rhythms and Caribbean harmonies. The result is a magnificent anthology of new and traditional songs that open up the forgotten world of Afro-Peruvian music. Born in a coastal fishing village in 1944, Baca has released ten albums. In 2002, she won a Latin Grammy Award for her 2001 album Lamento Negro. Her latest release is Travesias, brought out in 2006.

Susana Baca is largely responsible for the revival of many forms of Afro-Peruvian folklore. Together with her husband, she is also the founder of the Centro Experimental de Musica Negrocontinuo (Institute of the Black Continuum), a cultural center dedicated to the study of Afro-Peruvian music and dance. After sveral calssica albums that spaked worlwide interest in AfroPeruvian music, Susana has already guaranteed herslf a legendary status.

"I've gone all over Peru," she explains, "recording in rural areas, gathering material from old singers, composers." On her debut album, several of the songs, generally the more African-sounding, percussive numbers, have centuries-old roots, including "Énciéndete Canela," "Zamba Malató," and the aforementioned "Molino Molero," which is based on a scrap of music originally discovered by an American ethnomusicologist. 

Despite her emphasis on roots, Baca wants to make clear that she is not producing the equivalent of a folk music museum. She rescues, but she also reinterprets and contemporizes. "There are traditional things that we do, but our interpretation is different. There are more risks in what we do." Her album includes a number of contemporary compositions, and one can identify elements of jazz and even rap. 
 

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