During my days as a youngster I did quite a lot of travelling around Mexico by asking for rides at motorway entrances. On a certain occasion, I was given a ride on a large timber-carring truck across the mountain ridge which lies between Puebla and Veracruz. After settling down on my seat and a little later having exhausted the expected small talk, the truck driver immersed in great detail into his lifelong predilection for Mambo music ( which of course, we heard incessantly on the radio). It was very late at night and I was very tired, so I spent a strange night trying not to fall asleep, yet waking up between wild dreams invaded by the sounds of engine acceleration and the air brakes of the enormous machine, the blaring radio and the over enthusiastic conversation of the driver...

It is on the basis of that trip that I drew the psychological frame for Mambo Vinko. The piece is a sort of construction, or rather a deconstruction of this experience, organised as personal "road movie", complete with quotes from the different sonic characters who inhabited my dreams, including the unmistakable grunts of the 50's great king of mambo music, Dámaso Perez Prado. 

The work was composed for Vinko Globokar on a commission from the Groupe de Récherches Musicales in Paris in 1993. Vinko gave the première in Radio France on May 1993 to a fully awake audience.

Mambo Vinko

Susurros de Montaña/Poema Sinfónico para Banda Filarmónica Mixe: obertura y suite en cuatro actos (movimientos) y ocho regiones del Alto Mixe

Susurros De Montaña  por José Gurría - Cárdenas SNCA 2022

concerto para batería de jazz y orquesta de cámara avant-garde

Inter - Dependencia Ecosistemas Mexicanos por José Gurría-Cárdenas

inti figgis-vizueta creates music that carefully balances experimentation and practicality. She likens her compositions to plants which have the ability to grow and change when different people performing them. And in the last few years her music has been championed by an extremely wide range of musicians from Roomful of Teeth to Ensemble Dal Niente to the Kronos Quartet. Read a complete transcript of her conversation with Frank J. Oteri and learn more about her music on NewMusicBox: https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/inti-figgis-vizueta-the-ability-to-grow/

SoundLives23 - -inti figgis-vizueta: the ability to grow

Trayectoria A Blanco Concerto Grosso Para Orquesta De Camara Avantgarde, Improvisadores y Concertino

Trayectoria a Blanco Concerto Grosso Para Orquesta De Camara Avantgarde, Improvisadores y Concertino

Quinteto De Alientos IV (Acuiferos Colgados)

"Bosques" (2024)

Interpretada por:
Juan Camilo Vásquez - Flauta y botella.
Gabriel Mora - Flauta y botella.
Diego Serrano - Cartón con uñas y güiro de rana.
Johan León - Papel aluminio, frijoles, maraca y plástico burbuja.
María Fernanda Rodríguez - Papel celofán, plástico burbuja, maraca y papel corrugado.

Grabado en Fuchs Arten, Bogotá.

Bosques

Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas Brinkley, and afterword by Ambassador Andrew Young. 

The US-Mexican relationship has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But its history has also been beset by wars, drug trade, and human trafficking. With the latest xenophobic turn toward Mexico, this book contextualizes the latest swing in the up-and-down, two-hundred-year history of these two countries. 

In a lyrical narrative reflecting on Fandango Fronterizo, an annual musical celebration held on both sides of the border wall, Sehgal addresses how the broken US-Mexico relationship has been repaired in the past and continues to adapt today. FANDANGO AT THE WALL provides clarity to the current debate regarding construction of the wall and America's posture toward immigration. Sehgal and his artistic collaborators brought over thirty musicians from various traditions to the San Diego-Tijuana border to record a musical repertoire composed of son jarocho songs from Veracruz, Mexico and Latin jazz. With these tunes accompanying a call-to-action narrative, FANDANGO AT THE WALL demonstrates how music can heal and provide a soundtrack for the US, Mexico, and beyond.

Available September 25, 2018 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Grand Central Publishing. 

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FANDANGO AT THE WALL by Kabir Sehgal and Arturo O'Farrill. Read by Kabir Sehgal - Audiobook Excerpt

Arístides Llaneza Sandoval
A la sombra del azul

clarinet and vibraphone 

Performed by Duplum Duo
Fernando Domínguez, clarinet
Iván Manzanilla, vibraphone 

A la sombra del azul

Everything about Gurrisonic Orchestra exudes majesty. Even at its most minimal, José Gurría’s compositions and the musicians’ immaculate execution of the countless twists and leaps, lulls and bursts project a certain indefinable eminence. 
 
Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin is the Associate Editor of JazzTimes Magazine.

Gurri Sonic performs genre-bending original repertoire, integrating spoken word, multi-media, song-writing works framed by through-composed orchestral landscapes with tinges of avant-garde, jazz, and classical contemporary music.
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Coming soon:
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Jose Gurria-Cardenas
Los Angeles-based drummer/composer/arranger Jose “Gurri” Gurria, holds a BM from Berklee College of Music, and an MM and DMA in Jazz Studies from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC). Gurri’s many projects have taken him to China, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Peru, Cuba, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, and Guatemala. As drummer/percussionist, he has played with Peter Erskine, Robert Gupta, Howard Alden, Putter Smith, Vardan Osvepian, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Mark Ferber, Moira Smiley, Dorian Wood, Mark DeClive Lowe, She-e-Wu, Daniel Rosenboom, Root System, Ciaramella, and Victor Goines. With the USC Thornton Jazz Orchestra he has played with The Yellowjackets, Michael Mossman, and Maria Schneider. 
Gurri is founder of numerous progressive new music ensembles: Ethos Trio, Third Root Consort, Jazztec, and Jose Gurria Quartet. Gurri’s current focus is with Gurri Sonic, a 24-piece chamber orchestra, which brings together some of the most creative improvisers in Los Angeles such as Daniel Szabo, Justo Almario, Eric KM Clark, and Gavin Templeton among many others. Gurri Sonic performs genre-bending original music, pushing the boundaries of instrumentation and style with a mix of spoken word, poetry, multi-media, and singer–songwriter work, framed by through-composed orchestral landscapes with tinges of avant-garde, jazz, and classical contemporary music. 

Gurri has recently been recognized as a composer/arranger of note, by the Jazz Education Network for the year 2013. 
Sabian cymbals, Remo drum-heads, and Sibelius(Avid) are sponsors of Gurri’s career.
