DÚA DE PEL
Dúa de Pel is a musical group that blurs the border between past and present, between local and universal. Their compositions have a notable influence from the Iberian Peninsula folklore, but multiple styles coexist naturally in them, from different times and cultures, giving rise to an original and inimitable sound. Dúa de Pel immerses in tradition to reinvent it.
The group was born in Madrid in 2014, when composer Sonia Megías and writer Eva Guillamón decided to gather their respective knowledge and their long artistic career to create a music full of poetry. Since then, the group has developed a broad trajectory at a national and international level, in renowned auditoriums such as The Juilliard School of Music in New York City (USA), the British Museum in London (England), the Culture Square Theater in Shanghai (China), the Yue Opera Town in Shengzhou (China) or the Cervantes Institute of Tokyo (Japan), among others.
Their music albums have been presented at the major music stages in their country: the first one, Dúa de Pel, was presented in 2018 at the Royal Theater in Madrid; their second CD Madera de pájaro (Bird Wood) saw the light in 2021 at the National Auditorium.
In Dúa de Pel, all the lyrics and poems are created by Eva Guillamón; and all the music and arrangements by Sonia Megías.
Defining their style is a task that has no end, as would be deciding to which country a cloud or a star belongs.
Dúa de Pel's work connects with a common essence through the depth of words and the harmony of music, beyond languages or times.
WHY IS DÚA DE PEL WORLD MUSIC? Vocal technique, the research and deconstruction of folk rhythms, the use of traditional instruments such as bandurrias, mortar, Peñaparda square tambour, castanets, Brazilian spoons, Indian chimes, tambourine, Turkish santur, Moroccan krakebs... make Dúa de Pel's work a journey from root music to their own language: a tradition in motion.
WHY IS DÚA DE PEL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC? In Dúa de Pel’s music we find neomodalism; metric games in the purest style of Stravinsky, Bartók, Reich or Meredith Monk; accent shifts; expanded techniques at the vocal and instrumental levels; sound objects such as bicycle bells, fans, or kitchen utensils.
WHY DÚA DE PEL IS SINGER-SONGWRITER MUSIC? Singing is an infallible medicine, something as biological as magical, a perfect combination of training and intuition. It is to let the voice raise out, like a spaceship launched into the universe. In Dúa de Pel words becomes music. They sing as a fundamental antidote to the pain of life and death, and through this singing they spread awareness and promote social change, on a personal and political level.
WHY DÚA DE PEL IS POETRY? In their creations, Dúa de Pel speak on the relationship between the inside and the outside, the personal and the political, consciousness and the invisible, and they does so through classical meters, such as ten-line stanza, hendecasyllable, Alexandrian verses... or a free contemporaneity that experiments with language, moving the limits between prose and poetry, between the intimate and the social.
WHY DÚA DE PEL IS FEMINISM? Through their artistic work, Dúa de Pel puts the emancipatory process of women at the center, as the key agents in the defense and protection of this sinking humanity’s life. Because one of the functions of art is to tell the part of History that has not been seen, or that continues to go unnoticed.
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