Cristina has just closed the first round of the LATINA Tour, with the Release Party at SubCulture in her adopted hometown, New York, on May 17. So far, the album reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Here’s a selection:
“The late cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and the legendary percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, and now the virtuoso Galician bagpiper (gaita player) Cristina Pato… Very few musicians of any gender have more visceral energy and vivacity than these three musicians.(…) This music on ‘Latina’ gets to you if you open your heart. In fact it will pry open the gateway to your soul and if you resist, it will get you anyway.”
“A compact 36 minutes, “Latina” will leave you breathless. There’s nary a ballad – I can’t imagine wanting to leave the dance floor when this music is playing. Cristina Pato not only can play impressively but also uses her music to teach about the wide range of Latin music”
“Even in an age when the mainstream is full of all kinds of esoterica, Cristina Pato has a particularly individualistic choice of axe: the Galician bagpipe. Her sound is wild, feral yet virtuosic and breathtakingly fast.”
Cristina also gave an interview for Latin Post: “EXCLUSIVE: Cristina Pato on ‘Latina,’ Yo-Yo Ma & Saving Classical Music”
Also, be sure not to miss below these awesome pictures of the SubCulture concert, by Xan Padrón:
