Traspielas
TRASPIELAS is the latest collaboration between of singer-songwriter and renowned musician Su Garrido Pombo and Macarena Montesinos (cello), Iago Ramilo (saxophone), Marco Maril (electronics) and Fran Rodriguez Casal (visuals), as they dive through the collective memory of a village through a charged musical, poetical and visual celebration of place.
Drawing from the well of traditional songs collected in and around the village of Traspielas, Galicia, TRASPIELAS blends song with video archive footage and contemporary field recordings, as these five award-winning artists bring trad., electronica and experimental styles to the continuance of a centuries-old tradition that is in constant renewal.
The project
TRASPIELAS is a reinterpretation of 12 traditional songs collected in the village of Traspielas —jotas, muñeiras, lullabies and ballads— attuned to a multidisciplinary and contemporary ear. The songs are revisited with brand new arrangements and accompanied by audiovisual projections, texts and a scenography created from listening close to local memory, to continuing the dialogue between past, present and future; between the mountain and its people.
The breath of new life surging through these songs invigorates popular culture, drawing together the community and its terrain.
So, why a Crowdfunding Campaign?
Our traditional music is entirely linked to community life.
We want to record these songs because they belong to everyone, not to keep them but to share them, to sing our heritage and, of course, to ensure they continue to be sung and remain a source of inspiration and hope for all.
Because, as John Berger tells us, songs, like poems, give us hope; they teach us that amid change something will endure, that they will continue to be sung, danced to, talked about, heard; they propel us forward, towards the future, while at the same time binding us to the place, the land where they were danced and sung openly on the village green.
A song, as distinct from the bodies it takes over, is unfixed in time and place. A song narrates a past experience. While it is being sung it fills the present. Stories do the same. But songs have another dimension, which is uniquely theirs. A song fills the present, while it hopes to reach a listening ear in some future somewhere. It leans forward, farther and farther. Without the persistence of this hope, songs would not exist. Songs lean forward.
— John Berger, ‘Some Notes on Song,’ Harper’s Magazine, February 2015.
Because we are a community that has traditionally created, sung, played and danced; we participate, we sing and dance together, or as my grandmother would say, “What I liked was to dance, but to dance, someone has to play.
And to sing and play our instruments, someone has to listen.
That's where you come in.
How your money will be spent
The community's money will be used for:
Production, recording, mixing and mastering of the album TRASPIELAS
Design and layout of the album cover and booklet, and manufacturing of vinyl and CDs
Design and manufacturing of TRASPIELAS T-shirts
Shipping costs
Timeline
Should we secure funding, we will record our songs along the following timeline:
February - April 2026: Rehearsals and pre-production
May-June 2026: Recording:
July 2026: Mixing and mastering:
August 2026: Launch gig
September-October 2026: Vinyl and CD manufacturing
November 2026: Delivery of physical rewards (CDs, vinyls, t-shirts, photo’s etc.)
Rewards
Keeping all tastes and means in mind, our rewards include a one of a kind photocard, the album in CD and vinyl format, TRASPIELAS T-shirt and original, signed photographic print by photographer & filmmaker Fran Rodríguez Casal, as well as digital access to the album.
As for our BROOM, RUE & ROSEMARY rewards, we hope the experience of an exclusive concert at the heart of where these songs were heard for the first time and then gathered with care, will be a most unique experience that we think you will appreciate.
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