The Music:

Quique Cruz has written a musical suite in three movements entitled:  “Arqueologia de la Memoria: Villa Grimaldi en Tres Cantos”.  The musical suite mixes two different musical types: Latin American ancestral folk and contemporary jazz. The Latin American music anchors the piece to the Chilean culture, and will symbolically represent the period of history before the coup d’etat. The use of jazz is a reflection about how communities in diaspora suffer transformations and develop new art forms.

The suite was recorded at Musiquito Productions in Oakland California by the Group Quijeremá. There are world known musicians collaborating in the project, including: guitarist Alex DeGrassi, pianist John Calloway, singer Fracisco “Pancho” Sazo; percussionist / composer; Sergio “Tilo Gonzalez, among others.  It will available in December 2006.

The Suite:

“Arqueologia de la Memoria: Villa Grimaldi en Tres Cantos”

I Sueños / Dreams

• Pregón                           
• Ensoñación / Dreaming                                               
• Azul y Cuarzo / Blue and Quartz (sample mp3)