Mar, Río y Cordillera 

A folkloric mashup from a group of almost 20 singers, musicians and percussionists from the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. Bringing traditional music from the Colombian Pacific, known for its connection to the African diaspora, three different music groups come together under the name of Mar, Río y Cordillera. Their instruments include a Colombian marimba, which resembles the African balafon; guasá, typically made from bamboo and filled with light seeds or rice; maracas, drums, and wind instruments. 

Featuring Lucio Murillo Asprilla, Emildo Granja Bonilla, Rufina Hurtado De Garcia, Maicol Estiben Castro Granja, Modesta Hurtado Granja, Jose Carlos Largo Granja, Didier Ferney Vente Grueso, Diego Mauricio Velez Londoño, Laura Marcela Asprilla Lopez, Nicolas Acevedo Palacios, Luis Alfonso Pino Ramírez, Angie Marieth Rengifo Peña, Ana Liza Albornoz Rivas, Milay Mosquera Rodriguez, Natali Sanchez Murillo.

This jam session is echoeing from our recent collaboration with Oscar Murillo in Venice where we echoed and expanded his exhibition A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise through different tones, marks, gestures, beats, and temporalities and though listening to the incantations and readings of our past, present, and futures.

We give thanks for the families we find on our path!