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Timbó Trio

Genre

Candombe jazz

City of origin

Uruguay (Based in Catalonia)

Presenting

Candombe jazz, improvisation on ancestral rhythms

Candombe is the generic name given in Uruguay to different dances of African origin that arrived in the Southern Cone at the hands of enslaved men and women who were transported from Africa to the ports of Montevideo and Buenos Aires, a traffic that reached its greatest intensity during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Originally, in Africa, percussion rhythms are performed in sub-Saharan African villages using hollowed logs covered with animal skin and played with sticks. Uprooted from their lands, these rhythms traveled to the New World, landing in the ports of the Americas and there they settled as a living flame of the cultures of Afro-descendant communities.

Since 2006, December 3 is celebrated in Uruguay as the National Day of Candombe, Afro-Uruguayan Culture and Racial Equity. Three years later, in 2009, UNESCO declared this music Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Created in 2021 and made up of three Uruguayan musicians, Timbó Trio delves into the sounds of candombé that serve as a central body for jazz improvisation.

The trio invites us to an instrumental concert made up of original compositions in which a continuous dialogue vibrates between the acoustic piano, the double bass and the natural skin drums specific to the genre.