Mambo à la Braque
Javier Álvarez
Programme notes
Like words made out of cutting letters from a newspaper, I have used in Mambo à la Braque [Braque-style Mambo] short musical segments which come from the well known mambo Caballo Negro by composer Dámaso Pérez Prado to whom this short piece pays homage. I have reassembled them into a sound mosaic and used a few other sounds to ‘glue’ them together. My aim was to create a sort of cubist music, or put in other words, a mambo of my own invention made out of mambo cuttings.
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Premiere
- November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Acousmonium
: Concert 6: Électro clips, Théâtre Les Loges, Montréal (Québec)
- Composer(s): Javier Álvarez
- Year of composition: 1990
- Duration: 3:02
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Yul média
- Commission: empreintes DIGITALes
- ISRC: CAD509613000
