En más de una ocasión se ha dicho que la música de la cantante Jaramar Soto, quien ofrecerá un único concierto el sábado 11 de Octubre en The New LATC, tiene como impulso principal el afán de romper barreras temporales y geográficas al mezclar sonoridades del pasado y del presente. También se ha descrito lo que hace como un viaje en el tiempo que tiene como punto de arranque la España de moros, judíos y cristianos, y luego pasa por el brutal encuentro con un mundo nuevo, cruza por la dominación colonial y desemboca al inevitable mestizaje.
Quienes han tenido la posibilidad de asistir a algunas de las actuaciones de Troker, tanto en Guadalajara como en el Distrito Federal, Tijuana y otras ciudades de la Republica Mexicana, saben que cada de una de ellas siempre es diferente a la otra, es decir, un evento irrepetible.
For more than half a century, Viola Trigo has traveled the world singing great Spanish songs penned by legendary composers from Latin America.
Along the way, she herself has become a sort of legend in her own right, a seasoned singer that performs with simple, ethnic elegance, dressed in huipiles, donning beautiful rebozos and accessorized with gorgeous artisan jewelry. She's back in Los Angeles for another concert.
Our master philosopher from the southern reaches of this hemisphere returns with a most delicate subject matter, that of the gladiator sport. Not for the faint of heart, Garganta wished to exploit the stamina and prowess of his wife's energetic Pomeranian poodle in a few illegal canine fights. The result of the losing wager forced him to consider other options for payment - ending in the brillant canine's idea of our own collaborator engaging in a caged fight in order to recover the investment. Apparently the Pomeranian, smart creatures that they are, selected a particularly unsavory character to engage in malicious payback, and betting against our very own, save the day for our hero.
Unrelated to all this, however, here is the view on the subject matter from the sage of the Southern Cone, whose work and wisdom remains avaliable at www.javiergarganta.com.ar
