Taken from a 2015 live performance, this is perhaps the most ambitious album Jordi Savall has ever released, which is saying a lot. It is nothing less than a musical history of slavery, mostly in its Latin American manifestations, but with North America not neglected. The narration is in French partly because the concert was performed in France, but also because the narrative of freedom that pointed the way toward slavery's end was, at several critical junctures, French. American listeners may be staggered to hear a 1968 ...
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Taken from a 2015 live performance, this is perhaps the most ambitious album Jordi Savall has ever released, which is saying a lot. It is nothing less than a musical history of slavery, mostly in its Latin American manifestations, but with North America not neglected. The narration is in French partly because the concert was performed in France, but also because the narrative of freedom that pointed the way toward slavery's end was, at several critical junctures, French. American listeners may be staggered to hear a 1968 speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (not "I Have a Dream") delivered in that language, but the progression from the opening text, Aristotle's assertion that humanity is divided into masters and slaves, to Dr. King's oration is powerful indeed. Even more powerful is the music. Here Savall starts with a few pieces he has recorded in the past: Spanish and Mexican Renaissance pieces that show African influence, like Mateo Flecha's Gugurumbé. But he goes far beyond these. The Flecha...
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