Encienda el Fuego
In this album, Miriam García – Argentinian singer, actress, researcher and educator –, performs anonymous songs from the oral tradition of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
With a personal vocal style which is the result of her research and, mostly, her close connection to popular singers, Miriam García continues the work with techniques like reassessment and diffusion she learned from her teacher Leda Valladares. The 14 songs, mainly from Argentina –with two bonus tracks–, were compiled in rural areas and investigated by well-regarded researchers, such as Ventura R. Lynch, Manuel Gómez Carrillo, Carlos Vega and Leda Valladares. In many cases, the song arrangements, made by Miriam and experienced musicians, intend to place the traditional repertoire inside a modernistic esthetic frame that can be appreciated both in the orchestration and harmony of the songs as well as in her interpretative style.
Information about the songs
Tonada de Pascua (tonada)
Song from Tarija, Bolivia
This genre comes from the chapaca culture. It is traditional coplas sung at Easter both a capella or accompanied by a violin. Habitually they are sung by men. Their melodies are made with pentatonic scales. They have a lyrical structure in which the mote intervenes every two lines of the four-line stanza, in the remate and in the final line.