Magos Herrera & Paola Prestini: "Con Alma" via National Sawdust (Live Stream)
Magos Herrera & Paola Prestini: "Con Alma" via National Sawdust (Live Stream)
Dec. 13, 7PM EST. Watch via National Sawdust
The Mexican singer Magos Herrera and the New York-based composer Paola Prestini have collaborated on a lovely new album called Con Alma – “With Soul.” The music draws on jazz, chamber music, and Latin song, without ever settling on any one of those things. After all, Herrera is a jazz singer who’s done a whole album with a string quartet, and Prestini is Artistic Director at National Sawdust, a venue that refuses to abide by stylistic boundaries. Magos Herrera and Paola Prestini are doing a multimedia launch event on Sunday evening, Dec. 13, directed by Ashley Tata and featuring music videos, live-drawings by Kevork Mourad, and real-time storytelling with the creators and performers of these works.
The album features over thirty musicians from around the world who recorded in isolation including the all-women Leipzig based Ensemble Sjaella; Constellation Chor featuring Marisa Michelson; the Young People’s Chorus of NYC; Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, Mexico’s top symphony orchestra; former Kronos Quartet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler; Silk Road clarinetist Kinan Azmeh; multi-instrumentalist Gonzalo Grau; jazz guitarist Romero Lubambo; guitarist and composer Vincius Gomes; and multi-instrumentalist Diego Schissi.
