Peruvian musician Susana Baca gives an intimate El Tiny performance befitting her status as a curator of folklore and culture of the highest order.
From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an El Tiny takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Girl Ultra and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad.is surrounded by books, wine and percussion. In addition to their instruments, her band members play the desk they sit around itself, an organic setting that blurs the boundaries between music and context.
In addition to being a musician, Baca has worked as an ethnomusicologist, a schoolteacher and Peru's former Minister of Culture; she's a curator of folklore and culture of the highest order. Throughout her El Tiny performance, the camera shifts to an overhead shot of the desk, featuring her 2021 albumbeside several books and a note that says"Eres lo que lees" .
Across her many careers, Baca's work is always in service of preserving and honoring African and Indigenous art forms. Her rendition of"Sorongo," written by Puerto Rican composer Tite Curet Alonso, is an electric and pulsing homage, transmuting the salsa of the original to a meditation driven by the drums,, grounding the narrative of African enslavement across Latin America in Afro-Peruvian percussion.
In this library, you are what you read. Joyfully running her hands along the spines of books behind her, Baca reminds us not just of the essential texts, but how to examine them with intention, precision and rapture.
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