#4679, Music from Mexico

Hear music from Mexico by marimba-playing cumbia punks Son Rompe Pera, Mexico City-based cellist Mabe Fratti, Brooklyn-based Banda de los Muertos, and Mexican singer Magos Herrera.

Listen to the marimba-based cumbia-punk of Mexico City’s Son Rompe Pera. Truly a sweaty party band, they have a distinctive sound, centered on three brothers who all play marimbas and draw on punk, ska, pop, and the ubiquitous Latin dance rhythm called cumbia. Then, listen to traditional Mexican banda music from Brooklyn-based Banda de los Muertos, featuring members of Slavic Soul Party, Jacob Garchik (Kronos Quartet arranger) and composer Oscar Noriega. Also, listen to the Mexico City-based 9-piece band, Sonido Gallo Negro (Black Rooster Sound), who draw on Peruvian cumbia as well as Amazonian cumbia, huayno, sonidero cumbia, boogaloo and chicha.

Then, there’s music by Mexican singer Magos Herrera, Mexico City-based cellist and composer Mabe Fratti, and a song about a woodpecker that brings together Chinese pipa player Wu Man and San Diego-based son jarocho group Son de San Diego. There’s also new music from Mexican born, New York-based vibraphonist, marimbist, improviser and composer Patricia Brennan, and music for cello and electronics from a film score by Clarice Jensen composed for the Mexican independent feature film Identifying Features. That, and more. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4679, Music from Mexico (First aired 11/01/2022)

ARTIST: Banda De Los Muertos
WORK: Culiacan [1:17]
RECORDING: Banda De Los Muertos
SOURCE: Barbès Records 
INFO: barbesrecords.com 

ARTIST: Sonido Gallo Negro
WORK: Alfonso Grana [2:28]
RECORDING: Sendero Mistico
SOURCE: Glitterbeat Records
INFO: sonido-gallo-negro.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Kronos Quartet with Alejandro Flores & Efren Vargas
WORK: El Llorar (Crying) [3:38]
RECORDING: Nuevo
SOURCE: Nonesuch 79649 
INFO: nonesuch.com

ARTIST: Son Rompe Pera featuring Chico Trujillo
WORK: Cumbia Algarrobera [4:50]
RECORDING: Batuco
SOURCE: ZZK Records / AYA Records 
INFO: sonrompepera.lnk.to/batuco

ARTIST: Banda De Los Muertos
WORK: Culiacan [3:17]
RECORDING: Banda De Los Muertos
SOURCE: Barbès Records 
INFO: barbesrecords.com 

ARTIST: Cliona Doris
WORK: Peter Garland: Cancíon de Villanueva [3:17]
RECORDING: Peter Garland - Cantares de la Frontera
SOURCE: Louth Contemporary Music Society label
INFO: louthcontemporarymusicsociety.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Wu Man & Son de San Diego
WORK:  El Pájaro Carpintero (The Woodpecker) [3:35]
RECORDING: Fingertip Carnival
SOURCE: WIND MUSIC International Corp
INFO: Available at Amazon.com, AppleMusic

ARTIST: Marisa Anderson
WORK: La Llorona [3:32]
RECORDING: Still, Here
SOURCE: Thrill Jockey Records
INFO: marisaanderson.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Patricia Brennan
WORK: Derrumbe De Turquesas [5:29]
RECORDING: Maquishti 
SOURCE: Valley of Search
INFO: patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Magos Herrera; Vinicius Gomes, guitar; Gonzalo Grau, cajón & percussion; and Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
WORK: Rojo sol  [7:40]
RECORDING: Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera: Con Alma
SOURCE: National Sawdust
INFO: nationalsawdust.bandcamp.com

ARTIST:  Mabe Fratti
WORK: Todo Lo Que Querías Saber [4:32]
RECORDING: Pies Sobre la Tierra
SOURCE: Hole Records
INFO: mabefratti1.bandcamp.com

ARTIST:  Clarice Jensen
WORK: Back To Mexico [5:32]
RECORDING: Identifying Features' EP
SOURCE: 130701 / FatCat
INFO: https://claricejensen.bandcamp.com/album/identifying-features