Baile Entero
A creative reflection that begins by imagining what our current music would be like if we had kept certain traditional rhythms of the peninsula alive, and if they formed a natural part of our musical reality.
What relationship would we have with them? How would we listen to them? Would we dance them? And how would we dance them? Would we know where folklore begins and ends? If we were to reinterpret or alter traditional rhythms, would we still be making folklore?
These are some of the questions underlying the research and musical creation project Baile Entero, in which Pablo Martín Jones uses traditional rhythms as a starting point from which to explore, intervene, and evolve them—eroding or caring for them as history, life, and time themselves might have done.
Rhythms performed in their traditional manner (and with traditional instruments) that are later intervened upon, developing, disrupting, and transforming their sound into something new, with the dual aim of preserving their character as a primary driving force of music and dance, while allowing the result to resonate with us as something of our own.
