La Musgaña offers us a view of all the instrumental music from the Castilian meseta exploring the essence of Castile’s rich tradition and developing the aesthetic possibilities of a cultural heritage with so much racial mix.Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic have all left their mark on the centre of the Iberian peninsula, and any reference to their art or music finds its reflection in our own Castilian culture, enabling us to continue with a tradition which, far from being static, has imbibed every source it has found on its way.
With an enormous wealth of rhythms and styles from religious offertories and peasant dances: the charradas, ajechaos and charros of Salamanca and Zamora; the bailes corridos of Avila; the pindongos from Caceres, and the dances, airs and songs of Leon or Burgos, to the jotas, songs of supplication, romances and Christmas carols from Madrid, Segovia or Valladolid, La Musgaña reveals to us a whole range of native, ethnic and contemporary instruments which provide the perfect timbre at every moment of this creative look at the deepest roots of our culture.
