Cununao
Cununao
Arrechea, Ararat, Pascagaza, Caldas
Cununao

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  • country:Colombia
  • region:Bogota
  • style(s):Colombianas, Afro Jazz
  • label:Discos Fiera
  • type:Quartet
  • instrumentation:instrumental, percussion, jazz combo, piano
  • artist posted by:Discos Fiera

Line up

  • Diego Pascazaga (Doublebass)
  • Giovanni Caldas (Piano, Conductor, Arragements)
  • Juan Carlos Arrechea (Bombo & percusion)
  • Larry Ararat (Cununos (traditional drums))

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Driven by the awareness of the relationship, probably underestimated, between the Marimba de Chonta and the piano, Giovanni Caldas, a young Colombian pianist and composer, explores and researches this instrument, representative of Colombian Pacific Coast. The result of this thorough search was the creation of “Cununao”, a musical quartet that integrates ancestral sounds from the Afro-Colombian Pacific with improvisational elements of Northamerican jazz.

By sharing significant experiences with traditional musicians from the Pacific region (Colombia), Giovanni finds inspiration to create a story taking place in the mid XX century, where a piano that arrives to the Pacific coast, attracts the interest of a young musician for whom the main musical context is the Marimba sound. The young musi- cian learns to play the piano by means of old, and a bit mistreated Jazz and European music scores that arrived with the instrument. In this way, using Bombos and Cununos he opens new doors to explore his traditions and to approach the piano.

Taking into account the above story, this project recreates another possible view of folk music from the pacific region. This music, traditionally appreciated as "danceable", adds an aesthetic value which is determining for the cultural and artistic formation of the country from a listening point of view; improvisation in jazz music with its dynamics generates a contemplative atmos- phere and it exploits other possibilities that the richness of these rhythms gives generously.