Born in Asturias, Spain, Ernesto Paredano is a composer and artist living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Paredano @paredano has also developed a great career as a musical creative director in the field of cinema. He studied music through the Asturian gaita; this instrument, as well as the traditional music of this region, was losing visibility and attention. Later, as a professional musician, he initiated a process of research and recording of songs and sounds with traditional instruments in very remote villages and “brañas” in Asturias. This interest in rescuing and preserving a cultural heritage continued later with the recording of the sound of the “turullo”, which is a large seashell used by the Vaqueiros de Alzada (a community of transhumant shepherds) to communicate between brañas (high, steep places in the mountains).

For tropical papers, the artist has shared a series of improvisations made in his studio, mixing sounds and music from his personal archive.

POSTED: @tropicalpapers_17.08.2020 to 30.08.2020

This project is a collaboration of Ernesto Paredano, tropical papers and Archivo Lares @archivolares.