Beatriz Pichi Malen. New Concert: Saturday December 4
Saturday December 4/11/18 – 8PM
Information: auditorio@proa.org / (011) 4104-1001
Admission: $30
Recently arrived from Chile, where she performed for the first time and her show was qualified as “outstanding” “historical and unforgettable”, Beatriz Pichi Malen, one of the most virtuous voices of Mapuche music, will sing again at Proa’ s Auditorium on Saturday December 4, at 8PM.
Chilean press wrote “Beatriz Pichi Malen graced us with an amazing evening, full of songs that paraded the assisting audience through the four seasons, making rain, birds, sun, trees, flowers and animals come to live in a ancestral sound landscape that traces back to the most essential and profound of ourselves. A true encounter with the land and our people.”
The concert she will give at Proa, almost deprived of technological assistance, reveals different Mapuche compositions: sacred, profane and popular chants and songs of sorrow and pain, all evoking the symbols of this culture. Pichi Malen accompanies her songs with brief explanations and stories in a captivating, almost ritual, concert that reveals the strength and subtleness of traditional Mapuche music.
Descendant of cacique Ignacio Coliqueo, Pichi Malen is devoted to the search and diffusion of her ancestors’ culture, which she accomplishes through these recitals, recordings and editions of Mapuche songbooks.
In her extensive artistic career, she has had several presentations in Latin American European and North American cities. She edited two records and her songs are included in important international ethnic music compilations. In 2002, she performed a series of memorable concerts at Fundación Proa.
In an interview for Chilean press, she mentions: “From the moment I chose to sing only in Mapuche, I am offering a resistance, a different way of inviting people to penetrate in our world, the world of the old who knew how to be instead of living in appearances; and who also have a live memory and have enabled young-and not so young- people like myself not to have disappear as people and culture”
+ info: http://www.pichimalen.com/
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