Madre Selva Diana Baroni, Ensemble Vedado & Ronald Martin Alonso

• 1 Qalltawi: The Origin 01:06
• 2 Sumaj Pachamama 02:57
• 3 El amanecer 04:14
• 4 Anahuac: The Land Between the Waters I. 00:50
• 5 Cuic Ocnelli, Alla do se ponga el sol 03:06
• 6 Quemallama 04:24
• 7 Quqarara: The Forest 00:53
• 8 Ruisseau qui nourrit dans ce bois 03:04
• 9 Agua Larga 03:16
• 10 Anahuac: The Land Between the Waters II. 00:38
• 11 La Caña 03:33
• 12 La Guanábana 04:23
• 13 Frutas del Caney 03:58
• 14 La muerte del animal 04:08
• 15 Anahuac: The Land Between the Waters III. 00:17
• 16 Calor! 03:28
• 17 La tarde pidiendo amor 04:53
• 18 Vidala del último día 06:01
• Total Runtime 55:09

Info for Madre Selva

After the success of their album MUJERES (Aparté 2023), Diana Baroni and Ronald Martín Alonso, together with the Ensemble Vedado, invite you to discover MADRE SELVA, a new adventure featuring extraordinary musicians, ambassadors artists of Latin traditions, the Middle East and African griots.

An ode to nature, its invisible forces and its untamed spirit, this new opus revisits an exquisite repertoire rooted in the ancestral heritage of Latin America, in a unique alchemy where voices, traverso, strings and percussion from the four corners of the world come together. Blending different musical and spiritual traditions, songs sometimes in indigenous languages, and inspired by the poems of Nicolas Guillen (Cuba), MADRE SELVA is a sensory experience that transcends borders and connects the listener to the memory of peoples, to the earth, to its vital energy.

Diana Baroni, voice, traverso
Ronald Martin Alonso, viola da gamba, artistic direction
Rafael Guel Frias, baroque guitar, flutes, vocals
Keyvan Chemirani, zarb, oriental percussion
Abraham Mansfarroll, batá drums, Cuban percussion
Tunde Jegede, kora

Diana Baroni
A musician between worlds, Argentine flutist, singer, composer Diana Baroni is constantly searching for the next musical fusion, never made uncomfortable by borders in order to redefine music treasures and limits, like a great explorer. She presents a hybrid and unclassifiable work that freely blends ancient music, popular expressions from oral tradition, poetic corpus, historical sources and highly experimental contemporary scores. Demanding, intuitive, punk, dreamlike or baroque... Why choose when everything buzzes with an extra dose of soul?

A young prodigy on the flute, at the age of 17 Diana Baroni left her childhood home in Rosario to study, on a scholarship, at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland. She realized that technical virtuosity was not an end in itself and set off to travel around Europe in search of herself: a few months of pure bohemianism led her to read Deleuze and Foucault, swear by Mahler, play in the streets, and be blown away by John Cage, Coltrane and Stockhausen. Her return to Argentina was marked by the extraordinary wind of freedom blowing through post-dictatorship Buenos Aires, where artists could finally express themselves. She embraces the underground scene and its creative effervescence: for many years she will be actively performing at the Experimental Center of Colon Theater exploring Schoenberg, Kurt Weill and John Cage, breaking all boundaries and becoming a reference for the avant-garde Argentine music scene.

In 1998, Diana Baroni took the courageous step of embarking on a new direction by joining the legendary Schola Cantorum in Basel to study the historical interpretation of early music and traverso (baroque flute) This return to the Old Continent led her to form the Café Zimmermann ensemble, whose recordings dedicated to the instrumental works of J.S. Bach have been internationally acclaimed.

Giving substance to emotion and breath to rare objects is the mission of art for Diana Baroni, who continues, as a prolific communicator, to stand up to institutional elitism.

Her musical curiosity led her exploring other horizons, creating more innovative projects and collaborations. Brodsky Quartet, Tunde Jegede, Ronald Martin Alonso, Jasser Haj Youssef... Alongside her loyal companions, Diana strives to multiply the meeting points between poetic and musical spaces and times throughout her unclassifiable and powerful albums.

Baroque, contemporary, popular South American repertoires, intimate songs: the Argentinean conjures up spirits and codes to invent the language in motion of a flutist and singer between worlds. Cubist in her way of varying listening angles, impressionist in her knowledge of nuances and vibrations, figurative in her melodic motifs and abstract in her relationship to sound, Diana Baroni delivers a living tableau celebrating the boundless magic of music.

On stage, Diana has appeared at most prestigious European scenes like Konya Mystic Music Festival, Saint-Denis, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Opera de Lyon, Musikverein Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, and abroad the world : China, Japan, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Pakistan and several countries in Africa, supported by the French Institute.

"Diana Baroni lures those who listen to her like a siren, with her singing and her seductive way of playing the flute. She deliver a ecstatic celebration of the universal power of song and dance: resist it at your peril!" (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE London)

Booklet for Madre Selva