When

Sunday 24th October at 14:00
In concert on a superb double bill with the brilliant TORD GUSTAVSEN ENSEMBLE

Where

Everyman Palace Theatre

Price: €30
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About

Famed Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa plays up and down the tree of music, sounding its deepest African roots and the greenest buds in its ever-spreading canopy. Every note summons listeners to a joyful ceremony of communion.
Sosa offers a joyful mix of jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, combining percussive forays inside the piano and a series of electronic effects with his inspired, passionate playing at the keyboard. His tempos are fluid and his moods change freely. He revels in the irresistible grooves of Latin jazz, while adding experimental touches to keep his listeners on their toes.

For Sosa—who grew up in Camagüey, Cuba, and trained at the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana—music is an exercise in translation. It constantly celebrates and soothes through lambent melodies, intense rhythms and richly expressive harmonies that open onto a space richer, wider and deeper than the everyday.
He draws on a wide variety of traditions and styles—jazz, hip-hop, trance, Brazilian, classical, electronic—which he blends into an unselfconscious and instantly identifiable sound. His 2008 release Afreecanos (Otá Records), for example, uses 21 musicians from five continents on ancient and modern instruments. Across the Divide (Half Note Records), released last year, seamlessly combines West African traditions and church music from Maine.
Don’t miss this amazing performer’s Irish debut!