This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover.
Admiration is the spellbinding tenor of Rita Payés’ Tiny Desk efficiency.
Flanked by mom Elisabeth Roma and husband Pol Batlle, the Spanish multi-instrumentalist’s presence on the Desk displays the way in which she creates and lives her music: within the cradle of familial love.
Payés performs a wide range of Spanish jazz that’s modern and nimble in its supply, but leans closely on custom. Born to a musical household in the identical coastal city in Northern Spain the place she now resides, she was raised surrounded by deep, musical custom which she was capable of determine as ripe for revival.
Throughout earlier, softer songs composed alongside her mom, to her now extra grandiose string-laden, percussively wealthy preparations, authentically representing her residence and creating music match for intimate trade is all the time central to Payés’ craft. Within the longing trill of her trombone or her sweetest vocal notice, a way of generational respect and understanding is born anew in Payés’ revered harmonies.
SET LIST
- “El Cervatillo”
- “Por qué Será”
- “Nana Per Les Mamas”
- “Quien lo diría”
MUSICIANS
- Rita Payés: lead vocals, trombone, guitar, composing, arranging
- Pol Batlle: guitar, palm tree leaf
- Elisabeth Roma: guitar
- Horacio Fumero: upright bass
- Juan R. Berbín: drums, percussion
- Jonathan David Lewis: violin
- Turkkan Osman: violin
- Anna Arnal Ferrer: viola
- Cristina Arista: cello
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Anamaria Sayre
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
