BROTAR LIVIA GIAFFREDA & MARIO CARRILLO

Livia Giaffreda - voice, percussion
Mario Carrillo - double bass, square frame drum
Daniel García Diego - piano, square frame drum
Pablo Martín Jones - drums, percussion

A single path. To sprout.

The music that is born from the meeting of these two musicians seeks to explore the process of flourishing within the transformative cycles of life.

A luminous voice slides between the sinuous strings of a double bass, lets itself be guided by the waves of the piano, and places one step in front of the other guided by the rhythmic cadences of Afro-Latin cultures.

Between roots music and jazz, Livia and Mario speak of migrations and inner revolutions, with a refined, passionate, and sensitive language. Like on a map, specific places are touched, from southern Italy to South America, passing through Spain and Portugal, discovering that the origin of everything lies in the balance between going and returning.

To live means to make and remake, to be born and to die continuously, to undress, to rot, and to bloom.

Livia and Mario bring together worlds that are different from one another, mixing them with playfulness and courage, in a perpetual flow that does not lead to a precise destination, but rather to a constant and ever new beginning.

Livia Giaffreda is originally from southern Italy and lives in Toulouse. She has deep knowledge of her tradition and shares it, and she is in love with languages and stories. She meets Mario Carrillo while sharing Iberian roots music, and they decide to come together in Madrid with Daniel García Diego and Pablo Martín Jones, traveling masters of music and explorers of the colors of jazz, to propose a journey through Mediterranean music that connects with Africa and the Americas and to tell a story of connections between peoples, individuals, and universal feelings.