Atahualpa Yupanqui

Birds on a Wire is an enchanting voice and cello duo formed by French-American singer Rosemary Standley (with multinational France-based alt-folk band Moriarty) and young Brazilian singer, songwriter and cellist Dominique Pinto aka Dom la Nena. Initiated by Rosemary Standley in 2011 as “Rosemary’s Songbook”, the project evolved into the Birds on a Wire duo when the producer of Madamelune an independent Paris-based stage and music production company introduced her to Dom La Nena.

Argentinean bandoneonist-composer-improviser Dino Saluzzi returns to his roots with El Valle de la Infancia. Recorded at Saluzzi Music Studios in Buenos Aires, it’s the first of his discs to feature his “family band” since 2005’s Juan Condori. Here Dino is heard with his brother Felix on tenor sax and clarinet, his son José María on guitars, and nephew Matías on basses.

La présence espagnole en Amérique du Sud ne tarda guère à susciter un syncrétisme musical absolument fascinant, notamment à l'époque baroque, dont on a récemment redécouvert les prodigieuses richesses et qui influe directement sur les pratiques musicales actuelles. La Chimera se concentre pour ce programme sur une région emblématique de l'Amérique du Sud, composée originairement par des territoires Guaranis et Incas, plus tard dominée par les Jésuites, pour arriver à nos jours avec les noms de Paraguay, de Bolivie, de Pérou, de Chili et d’Argentine.

Paths, encounters, surprises, joys, sorrows, gratitude and an infinite space for research have been the components which led me to express in the present recording the feelings this music conveys to me. Europe, Buenos Aires and La Pampa it is a tribute to Astor Piazzolla by a European composer. The music from Buenos Aires and La Pampa harmonize in this record to express the soul of music. As Atahualpa Yupanqui said, a journey is made of endless arrivals. Discovering each of these pieces has given me an enormous motivation to learn and follow new paths, like a true channel telling a musical story. It is as if it were a very long trail. When you walk through it from a point to another to know and explore it, you find rest, you long to walk again to reach a new resting point and to start again.