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It is the revelation project of folktronica not only in Spain, but in the world. His mixture of traditional Galician rhythms and contemporary electronics, making a sort of found footage in which he resignifies the codes of traditional Galician music through an absolutely current but also futuristic look.

 

Between pop structures and the Galician mysticism of the meigas, Alejandro Guillán brings to his proposal an adaptation of the traditional from the popular point of view, a different view for the new generations. As a central element, it extols the percussive characteristic of the music in Galicia, and currently, “the oral transmission and popular culture” of (mostly) female voices. Muñeiras, traditional songs, synthesizers and more. Part of the experimentation that the 31-year-old musician brings comes “from the land of the meigas, the Santa Compaña of the queimada and the Celtic origins”, in addition to a folk-electronic formation that brings together the Galician poetry and lyric poetry of Luis Amado Carballo, Curros Enriquez o Rosalia de Castroas part of the popular songbook of the region.

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Rich, choral, incantations designed to evoke the region's meigas (witches) accompanied by relentlessly percussive pandeiretas (tambourines), hand drums and the occasional bagpipe, all make sonic reference to the region's ancient Celtic ties to Ireland.
Catalina M. Johnson
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