Kronos Quartet play Victor Gama's 'Rio Cunene'

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Rio Cunene is a piece written by Victor Gama for the Kronos Quartet and premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2010. It's European premiere took place later that year at CCB in Lisbon. During the process of development the piece’s meanings and focus evolved and centered around Victor Gama's instruments the Toha and the Gacrux (a version of the Acrux) and instruments made by children from a village, called Xangongo, on the banks of the Cunene river in the southern province of Cunene in Angola.
Posted September 12, 2020
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