Within the second that María José Llergo took her place behind the Tiny Desk, these of us fortunate sufficient to be within the viewers (and now anybody who watches the video doc it — fortunate you) have been transported to her native Andalusia in southern Spain, the normal dwelling of flamenco.
However the Spanish music scene that Llergo is a part of is exploding with new vitality, too. Her vocals are based mostly within the Arab-influenced vocal trilling of cante jondo, however like many artists from Spain as of late, she makes use of custom as a springboard for stylistic mash-ups with hip-hop, R&B and jazz.
Her cross-genre expressions show a nuanced stability of her respect for the deeply-ingrained cultural influences left over from the sixteenth century that’s her household background in addition to twenty first century music that’s her day-to-day actuality.
Llergo’s efficiency is propelled by a vivacious spirit, and her remaining music, “LO QUE SIENTO,” is a meditation on and homage to what it means to be a Spanish musician on this second when the boundaries of style and custom will be each celebrated and expanded.
SET LIST
- “RUEDA, RUEDA”
- “JURAMENTO”
- “SUPERPODER”
- “APRENDIENDO A VOLAR”
- “LO QUE SIENTO”
MUSICIANS
- María José Llergo Sanchez: vocals
- Julio Martin Macias: keyboards
- Carlos Sosa Zambrano: drums
- Juan Manuel Montoya: bass, guitar
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Anamaria Sayre
- Director: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Editor: Maia Stern
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Christina Shaman
- Audio Engineer: Carleigh Unusual
- Manufacturing Assistant: Elle Mannion
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Group: Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
