Susie Ibarra - Folkloriko

As drummer, percussionist, and composer Susie Ibarra moves further into the exploration of rhythm as a lyric force, and becomes more expansive and adventurous, the more she seems to find a center that is both accessible and appealing. On Folkloriko, she premieres two new pieces centered in the folk traditions of her native Philippines; they center around the notion of rhythmic figures that move off into tonal and textural worlds that seek the "seam" in music, the place where different traditions (her indigenous culture and those of the Far East and Africa as well as jazz) meet, dialogue, and intersect in the speech of the interlocutor -- the band -- and become not only subject but object as well. Read More