La Negra Graciana - Sones Jarochos con el Trío Silva

Just before her 60th birthday, Graciana Silva was dragging her harp from table to table in a cantina when one of the men drinking beer surprised her first with his kowledge of her music and then by inviting her to record. Her first CD was a quiet sensation. Graciana was invited to tour Europe for the first time in 1996 and has since returned several times to play in the Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Centre in London, in the Theatre de la Ville in Paris (where her second CD was recorded) and at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre. She still returns to the cantinas between tours to keep in touch with her public and compose verses on the spot as she has done all her life.

Graciana Silva, La Negra Graciana, is a unique artist in Mexican popular music: a harpist and singer from Veracruz who plays the classic repertoire of sones jarochos in a style that is difficult to hear in Mexico today. Her direct, impassioned vocals and the complex counter-rhythms that she plays so effortlessly on the harp suggest the West African influence in this music. Graciana, who's been playing professionally since she was 10 years old, is accompanied by her brother on jarana guitar and by Elena Huerta on the second harp and chorus although on several tracks she plays, as she prefers, alone.

Graciana Silva sale cada mañana de su casa para llegar al puerto de Veracruz, donde ofrece su magnífica voz, acompañándose ella misma en el arpa.

La Negra Graciana, como todos allí la llaman, es una figura sobresaliente dentro de la tradición del son jarocho por el enorme contenido de su expresión musical heredado.

En esta grabación, unas veces sola, otras con su hermano mayor, -Pino Silva a la jarana- y Elena Huerta en una segunda arpa, nos muestra esta forma de canto directo y el virtuosismo en los trineos del arpa, reminiscencias de estilos originales del son jarocho.

A raíz de la edición de éste, su primer CD, la Negra Graciana se ha presentado en vivo en varios de los más prestigiados foros del mundo, incluyendo el Theatre de la Ville de París, el Royal Festival Hall en Londres y el Harbourfront Centre en Toronto.



TRACKS:

1. La guacamaya
2. El pájaro cú
3. El torito
4. El siquisirí
5. La bamba
6. El pájaro carpintero
7. La tienda
8. La iguana
9. La tuza
10. El butaquito
11. El jarabe loco
12. La vieja
13. El canelo
14. El ahualulco
15. La María Chuchena
16. El balajú
17. El cascabel
18. La morena



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