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With ethnic songs combined with electronic music
Mexican singer, Estusha conquers seventh place in the Top Ten of the World Music Charts Europe
February 11, 2016With her latest album, entitled Wotan. A contemporary ethnic celebration, the Mexican singer Estusha is in the Top Ten of the World Music Charts Europe, the European List of Ethnic Rhythms, ranking led by Finnish, Kimmo Pohjonen.
It is the first time an Estusha's record enters the ranking where Wotan is in seventh place, which makes the singer "very happy, it is a great achievement. I've been 20 years in the music, always with this genre, always interested in world cultures, in Mexican ethnic cultures and it's nice to have a recognition after so long. "
Wotan, the seventh album of the singer who lives in Tepoztlan, Morelos, including a huge range of lyrics like Huichol, Sanskrit and Brazilian songs and sounds emanating from traditional instruments such as the balafon of Mali, the Peruvian cajon, the Ngoma, traditional harp from Gabon, as well as tanabaris, teponaztles, clay pots, everything wrapped in atmospheres and electronic beats.
In an interview, the two-time Fonca (National Fund for Culture and Arts) intern (Fonca, for its contraction in Spanish) considered that this album, which came out in July 2015, "approached a bit to a recognizable sound with all these ethnic elements, but in a more contemporary context; that made it could enter the world "and now, thanks to the nomination in the world Music Charts Europe, Wotan is listened on more than 50 radio stations in Europe.
A total of nine pieces of ethnic songs combined with electronic music, make up this production that, according to the singer, aims to bring the public the indigenous and traditional part that is in everyone.
"We have a gift with these sounds, these environments, these people who make music for a ceremony, for an appreciation, for a harvest and actually what I tried to share is that there is this whole world within this world we all know, because there are other worlds and can be listened at the same time. "
Thanks to her entry into this Top Ten, and to give a greater promotion to Wotan, Estusha will tour Spain and France from February 24, but before she will perform at the Teatro Ocampo in Cuernavaca.
The concert, she said, will take place on February 20 at 20:00 and admission is free. As in all presentations of Wotan, "we are three of us on stage: a DJ who makes all the electronic part, a percussionist with a varied repertoire of instruments in the world, and myself, with the singing, my improvisations and ethnic instruments."
The one-hour concert, will be multimedia, said Estusha, projecting images of nature, pyramids and tribes, with all the world cultures concept because "I feel it's like not going to see a star, not at all, it's like going to see a concept”.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
