Barrios

Lo que una vez fue un próspero vecindario de clase trabajadora en el lado sur de Chicago, los «patios inferiores» (bottomyards), es ahora la definición de la plaga urbana. Cuando una aspirante a diseñadora de moda y una amiga, obsesionada con la imagen, llegan al vecindario en busca de un alquiler barato, descubren algo mucho más seductor y siniestro que acecha detrás de las paredes de su nuevo hogar.

bossa nova guitarist and singer, shows precocious musical talent coming up from childhood to the study of classical guitar, thanks to the gift of absolute ear.

There are two aspects underlying this recording by Raphaël Feuillâtre, First Prize winner at the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition in 2018: original works for the guitar and transcriptions. Among the former is Villa-Lobos’s Prélude no.5, part of one of the most evocative and Romantic guitar cycles of the 20th century, the Chopinesque brilliance of the inventive Valse by Barrios Mangoré, and the compendium of virtuosity that is Llobet’s Variations on a Theme of Sor. The transcriptions range from Rameau, through Rachmaninov’s pianistic showcase, the Prélude in G minor, op.23 no.5, to the superbly evocative Alfonsina y el mar by Ariel Ramírez.

Over a dozen rotten corpses slop out of a drain pipe and float down the Rio Tula. Who are they? How did they get there?
This little number has everything…