Multi GRAMMY Award-successful pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill and nonprofit the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) present in partnership with co-producer Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (Los Angeles, CA) and ShapeShifter Lab (Brooklyn, NY) the exclusive virtual premiere of a riveting live movie general performance on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 (7pm EST, Tickets: $20, Backlink) featuring repertoire from the impartial film, Fandango at the Wall (now readily available on HBO Max).
Along with O’Farrill and his acclaimed 18-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, unique guest artists Mandy Gonzalez, The Villalobos Brothers, Julia del Palacio, and Victor Murillo accomplish with Mexico-dependent son jarocho artists Patricio Hidalgo, Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández, Tacho Utrera, Wendy Cao Romero, Fernando Guadarrama, and Jorge Francisco Castillo (Founder, Fandango Fronterizo Competition). Fandango at the Wall — The ShapeShifter Periods is directed by Taylor Krauss who seamlessly integrates awe-inspiring performances recorded onsite in Brooklyn Valencia, Spain and Vera Cruz and Tijuana, Mexico. Tickets are a proposed donation of $20 and can be obtained online at shapeshifterlab.com/fandango-alja.
In Could of 2018, O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra joined more than 50 artists from throughout the globe to record a are living album at the Tijuana-San Diego border at the Fandango Fronterizo Pageant. Due to the fact O’Farrill and movie producer Kabir Sehgal journeyed to Veracruz to recruit master son jarocho musicians for the recording, HBO has launched the documentary Fandango at the Wall (2020), a double disc album with 33 tracks was launched on Resilience Music Alliance (2018), and a ebook chronicling the working experience was introduced, all to essential acclaim. What was in the beginning set as a stay concert at Younes and Soraya Nazarian Centre for the Executing Arts in October 2020 celebrating the world release of the Fandango at the Wall documentary movie resulted in a cancelation owing to the COVID-19 world wide pandemic.
For the duration of a wintery 7 days in November 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, Arturo and the ALJO gathered together once more, this time in New York Metropolis to create the special live performance effectiveness film with many of the original guest artists. This time however, they connected remotely. 1000’s of miles of length involving many of the artists appearing on movie for Fandango at the Wall — The ShapeShifter Sessions could not shake the sheer musical expressions of beauty whilst they executed the 300-hundred-calendar year-aged folks new music of son jarocho that brings together indigenous, Spanish, and African traditions. The main of reside material recorded took position at ShapeShifter Lab in November 2020 whilst the artists and crew preserved rigorous public well being and social distancing rules (such as open up doors in 40-diploma temperature).
Arturo O’Farrill states, “How could we not respond to the pandemic apart from in the manner in which Jorge Francisco Castillo responded to the foolishness of border politics. He utilised the really things of fencing, rooster wire, attack dogs and border police to celebrate local community and unity. We had to rise to the contact and use face masks, temperature checks and isolation to affirm humanity and everyday living. It is what Black Lives Issue protesters also did, they took the murder of black gentlemen and ladies and bent the quite elements of hatred to unite globally in solidarity across racial, ethnic, countrywide, and gender traces. This is what human beings of conscience do. They deny the usurpers, the circumstances, the extremely components of struggling and stroll boldly into the potential we want to reside in.”
Movie director Taylor Krauss adds, “As an viewers, we are gifted intimate witness to a sort of unprecedented musical second. And in the urgency with which ALJO performs with each other in the exact same place for the to start with time because March 2020, we also sense a deep feeling of community and believe in welling out of the orchestra at a time when New York was becoming hit the hardest. This historic effectiveness transmits all the richness of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra seem, and so a great deal far more borne out of a year of political turmoil, worldwide pandemic, and musical isolation.”
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