Music of the Americas

08/28/2025

🇺🇾 From Montevideo, Diego Janssen sent us this version of "Ciudad Chiquero" performed on his live looping setup, utilizing a seven-string guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, drum samplers, and electronics. This is a track from Janssen's debut album, El hijo de. It is a fusion of candombe with rock and psychedelic jazz.

🎸 Janssen is a Uruguayan multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer, who synthesizes the power of Afro-Uruguayan candombe from the perspective of a contemporary musician, exploring jazz, rock, and psychedelia. He is a two-time winner of the National Music Award in the Jazz Fusion category and, in 2022, received the Graffiti Award for Best Candombe Fusion Album.

💛 Many thanks to MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation , New York City Department of Cultural Affairs , New York State Council on the Arts, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, and Mid Atlantic Arts for their support.

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08/27/2025

Today on En Casa 🇨🇴 🐍 From Bogotá, Jahra Dúo sent us this version of "Serpiente roja," a piece that puts a psychedelic spin on the traditional Andean call-and-response musical technique called sikureo.

Jahra Dúo is a musical research and creation project formed by Jairo Rodríguez and Epiara Murillo. It is based on sound exploration of the traditional and ritual music of the world's peoples. More info: https://www.as-coa.org/articles/music-americas-closing-season

💛 Many thanks to MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, and Mid Atlantic Arts for their support.

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08/26/2025

🇦🇷 Agustín Sarno is an Argentine guitarist, composer, and educator who studied guitar and composition at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM).

Using one of Nicolás Fioravanti's guitars, he sent us this solo version of his "Ciclos," a chacarera doble he composed while working at UNSAM.

💛 Many thanks to MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, and Mid Atlantic Arts for their support.

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08/25/2025

Today on En Casa ⛰️ 🇦🇷 From his home in Londres—one of the oldest towns in Argentina, founded in the 16th century close to the Inca city of Shincal—in the Andean region of Catamarca, Argentine luthier, composer, and guitarist Nicolás Fioravanti sent us this version of his "Chacarera en el aire," with Damián Fioravanti and Inti Diago. This piece "evokes the Quimivil Valley, touching on themes such as the landscape, the flora of the place, the people, and the landscape in general with its powerful energy."

Fioravanti built the guitar he plays in this video, and he restored the charango played by his brother Damian, which was built by Argentine luthier Jorge "Chiquito" Rodríguez.

💛 Many thanks to MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, and Mid Atlantic Arts for their support.

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08/12/2025

🎵🎍 What do you get when you cross a bamboo and gourd? A traditional Colombian clarinet known as the calambú.

🇨🇴 Today on En Casa, Bogotá-based musicians Jakob Valbuena Casas and Elvis Díaz, who make up the Dúo Calambú, perform Valbuena's "Calambú."

Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Augustine Foundation, and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!

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08/07/2025

🌴🇨🇴 Today in En Casa, we're traveling to the Colombian Caribbean with "La bienvenida" from Gilbert Martinez Sanchez and La Tambora de Gilbert, an example of the Afro-Colombian bullerengue style.

Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Augustine Foundation, and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!

08/06/2025

Welcome Michi Ruzitschka to En Casa with Nelson Cavaquinho's "Rugas."
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation New York State Council on the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Augustine Foundation, and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!
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08/05/2025

We conclude the release of Diego Kohn's "Cartographies for the Present" with the fourth video. 🥰
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation New York State Council on the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!
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07/31/2025

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07/25/2025

Calambú - Música is back on En Casa with Jakob Valbuena's "Joropo tumbao."
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation New York State Council on the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation!

07/24/2025

Welcome Romanzas Sefaradíes to En Casa!
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation New York State Council on the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!
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07/23/2025

Welcome La Tambora de Gilbert to En Casa!
Thank you MetLife Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts and Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation for your support!
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