Joaquín Sánchez. Born in Almargen (Málaga, Spain), living in Madrid. Joaquín plays clarinets and a myriad of other conventional and unconventional wind instruments, among many others: flutes, bansuri, kaval, chromatic harmonica, bagpipes, self-built instruments,.... His creative vision of music, instruments and life has made him a reference in both artistic and teaching aspects. He is currently a professor of the Master's Degree in Flamenco at the ESMUC (Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña) and of the Master's Degree in Flamenco at the Escuela Creativa de Madrid. He combines his musical and pedagogical career with projects such as Vibra-Tó, based on the construction of musical instruments with waste materials with which he has been giving workshops and concerts around the world for almost 20 years. He is part of the artistic direction of the Ventolera Wind Music Festival in Montefrío (Granada).
The story begins years ago in Granada, in an evening of music and poetry where the artists met. We spoke about home, we shared songs and vowed to make music with purpose. It is in these dire times, through the call for Songs for Soc Change, that we saw our mission clearly. We took a composition by Mario in Spanish, translated it and fused it with a poem by renown Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The song is about spiritual liberation through singing, and it is elevated with the voices of two Palestinian women, the talented Rawan and Aicha.
This song is about the climate disaster. How mankind has lost its way in navigating existence, and how it destroys everything around with its anthropocentric ego and power roles. The entire environment is sustenance and symbiosis: the forests, the rivers... but nevertheless the human being destroys them in its path. This song raises a glimmer of hope. It shows a reality in which, despite we lost everything, there's still that boat on which to chart a new course and return to the very roots.
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