mamalama
Hudson, NY | Established. Jan 01, 2012 | SELF
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"...Mamalama is a swirling tapestry of ancient and classical textures. I love when a band really has a singular sounds...like a musical organism..."
Paul Higgins, host of "Nightshade" - Paul Higgins. WKZE Radio 98.1
Por Antonio Flores-Lobos
Las Noticias
KINGSTON?-- Pocas son veces en que se tiene la oportunidad de presenciar música internacional, y de calidad, por la mínima cantidad de $10.
De modo que el platillo internacional que ofrece este fin de semana el Colony Café de Woodstock es algo que nadie se puede perder, puesto que promete ser uno de los mejores conciertos del otoño.
Y es que en el programa ofrece dos de los mejores grupos de música internacional y música de la Cordillera de Los Andes, de esa que hace a los sudamericanos suspirar por su terruño, en especial a los ecuatorianos, peruanos y bolivianos.
Pero eso no quiere decir que aquellos que son amantes de los géneros musicales como la duranguense, la bachata, el tango, la salsa, la cueca, el rock, las baladas y todas las demás, habidas o por haber, no vayan a poder dejarse llevar por los sonidos de la inumerable cantidad de instrumentos que las agrupaciones Mamalama y Andes Manta tocarán en escena, este viernes por la noche.
Mamalama
La agrupación, que tiene su base en el Valle del Hudson, es compuesta por cantaoutora Elizabeth Clark-Jeréz, quien toca el harpa y es una de las voces principales, Charlie Schikowitz, Henry Lowengard Sharon Penz y Zzoe Rowan.
Mamalama, quien viene de grabar una presentación en vivo en la Old Dutch Church de Kingston, llega a Woodstock con su nuevo albume “Willows and Waves ... Arboles y Olas”.
El elenco de Mamalama ha sido influenciado por un sinnúmero de generos e instrumentos, através de sus carreras musicales.
Clark-Jeréz por ejemplo se ha dejado influenciar por la música que ha disfrutado en las diferentes partes y culturas del mundo en las que se ha adentrado, entre ellas, la música sagrada de la europa medieval, la tradicional de las culturas pre-colombinas de las Américas y las populares y modernas de Africa.
El violinista del grupo, el canadiense Charlie Schikowitz, por custiones de su niñes e interés por la música, se dejó seducir por los ritmos de jazz-gitano, el Medio Oriente, Africa y la capoeira brasileiraY is the violinist/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist for the band Mamalama.
Y así, tanto como Henry, Sharon y Zzoe, todos los miembros de Mama Lama ha sido influenciado por sonidos e instumentos de fuera de las fronteras de los Estados Unidos. No está por demas decir que esa mezcolanza de instrumentos y rítmos internacionales se va a dejar sentir en el concierto del viernes.
- Las Noticias, Antonio Flores-Lobos
"...Mamalama's ethereal sounds will enchant you and reconnect you to the beauty and mystery of the universe..." - Radman X, WVKR Vassar College Radio
".....a stunningly beautiful, intoxicating sound..." - Chronogram Magazine
Discography
"Live at the Old Dutch Church"
Recorded at the Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY
Engineered/Produced by: Brian Macaluso at Clandestine Recordings,
(coming Spring 2016)
"The World of Color and Light"
Recorded at ArtFarm in Accord NY
Engineered/Produced by: Brian Macaluso at Clandestine Recordings
2012
"Willows and Waves"
Recorded in Woodstock at Digital Dave Studios
2010
Executive producer: David Fruchter
Engineer: Ted Orr
Production: Elizabeth Clark-Jerez
"Live from the Old Dutch Church"
Recorded live in Kingston NY at The Old Dutch Church
2009
Engineer: Brian Macaluso
Production: Elizabeth Clark-Jerez
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Bio
A listening experience that has been described as "like walking into a dream," Mamalama seamlessly weaves together world music (Native American, Middle Eastern, Celtic), classical minimalism, early/sacred/renaissance, indie-chamber music, and vivid lyrical mysticism. Mamalama is an uncommon orchestration of harp and ethereal voice, cello, violin, hammered dulcimer, melodica, tenor recorder, glockenspiel, upright bass, piano, french horn, and choral voices.
"....a stunningly beautiful, intoxicating sound that may lull you to a place of peace, if only you allow it." (Chronogram Magazine).
Mamalama currently performs live in a variety of venues throughout the Northeast, including in theaters, sanctuaries/churches, music festivals, spiritual retreat centers, pow-wows and other world-cultural festivals, and in unusual venues such as performance spaces within earth caves, turn-of-the-century gardens, Art Church with artist Alex Gray, concerts alongside pristine waterfalls and on mountaintops, as well as in the subways and rail stations/mass transit systems of NYC through the MUNY performing arts program (Music under New York).
Mamalama has also composed music for dance, film, puppetry, theater, and recently had the song "Same Room Twice" used in the soundtrack for "Manhattan Romance", an independent film by Tom O'Brian.
"The relationships between all of the different elements in nature -- both the natural world and our own inner nature -- are very inspiring... along with dreams, meditation and prayer, the beauty of science, physics, world mythology, and a myriad of stories and experiences that come from our ancestors. With our music, everything comes together very organically. The pieces are unusually scored, with colorful paintings and descriptions of dynamics, modes, and vision/visual forms rather than long and linear sheets of dictated notes and rhythms. The music is as much about the individual player and their presence as it is about the notes and rhythms. What we offer to our audience is very much a true collaboration, and a living, breathing music. " says harpist, vocalist, and composer Elizabeth Clark-Jerez.
The music is orchestrated by the entire Mamalama ensemble, which is made up of many well known Hudson Valley ensemble performers including: Rusty Boris on upright bass; Eric Otner on violin/voice/french horn, (St. Marks Consort); Henry Lowengard on hammered dulcimer/tenor recorder/melodica/glockenspiel/voice; Cornelia Logan on cello/voice; and Annie Roland (of Barely Lace) on voice/tenor mandolin.
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