The guitar is a mediator to journey in time: Jorge Lechuga

Mexico Metropolis. The guitar is a mediator to journey by time, mentioned musician Jorge Lechuga; “You may return to the Renaissance or the Baroque, to what new composers are creating; “It might probably merge many conventional and cultural areas.”

The performer will carry out the live performance subsequent Saturday (June 22) Alebrijes Guatequewhich is impressed by the colourful figures of Mexican fashionable artwork.

In interview with The Daythe guitarist highlighted that “the instrument may be very expressive and is used everywhere in the world and in virtually all genres” and on this event he’ll carry out a piece that he seems like “a complete that’s put collectively from small components, each with its peculiarity.”

He remembered that Alebrijes Guateque It emerged from a visit to San Martín Tilcajete, in Oaxaca, identified for its picket figures. Along with the composer Lupino Caballero they started to “create one thing engaging for the general public, with guitar: 13 miniatures with animals endemic to Mexico, that are the coyote, xoloescuintle, chupamirto, cincuate, teporingo, opossum, cacomixtle, tecolote, cenzontle, chapulín and axolotl, and a duality that’s the satan and god” he commented.

“It’s fairly curious, for instance, the coyote rating, should you flip the web page it transforms into the xoloescuintle. One other peculiarity is that there are some that may be performed collectively: chapulín and axolotl with cincuate. Many components kind a complete, like alebrijes, wherein many colours and twisted shapes are aligned to kind magical beings.”

Lechuga commented that earlier than every alebrije he’ll recite in Spanish a poem initially in Nahuatl, to introduce the general public to the essence of that animal or some instructing it might have there.

Lupino Caballero interweaves completely different compositional methods, melodies and rhythmic patterns, the performer continued; “I prefer it so much as a result of it composes differently, between didactic and mysterious; Apart from, his works have many surprises. He comes up with an concept and is ready to seize it in a special and progressive method on paper and within the music itself.”

He additionally added: “I play an ocarina to make the coyote howl, with my palms I make sound results, I take advantage of coyoles on my ft for the cincuate, a straw to resemble the music of the cenzontle, whereas my hand is on the left aspect of the guitar. “It makes completely different rhythmic and melodic figures.”

He famous that “the cacomixtle is a nocturnal animal, so the music talks concerning the night time and the introduction is a little bit darkish. The melody is sort of mysterious. I really feel that many sensations and feelings are coming collectively as a result of I’m decoding the essence of that animal. Transmitting it by a bit to the general public is the problem, that individuals can shut their eyes and picture how the cincuate or the chupamirto is crawling.”

He concluded: “For me it’s a method of placing collectively the puzzle, of enjoying with the colours, timbres and the sources that I’ve to create an environment, a concrete or imaginative concept and that the general public can understand what I’m expressing by of the guitar. Though it’s a modern work, it’s nice to the ear.”

The work Alebrijes Guateque, commissioned by the 2021 Cultural Tasks and Co-investments Promotion Program, shall be carried out on June 22, at 7 p.m., within the Blas Galindo Auditorium of the Nationwide Arts Heart (Avenida Río Churubusco quantity 79, Nation Membership Churubusco neighborhood). The ticket will value 150 pesos.