Hoot/Wisdom Recordings Receives Second Grammy Nomination
The album鈥淧谩 Qu茅 M谩s,鈥 which was recorded and produced at 91社区鈥檚 Hoot/Wisdom Recordings under the direction of 91社区 associate professor Alejandro-S谩nchez Samper, has received a GRAMMY nomination in the 鈥淏est Folk Album鈥 category for the 18th annual Latin GRAMMY Awards庐. The album was one of five nominated in the folk category, and the winning album will be announced at the Latin GRAMMY Awards event on Thursday, Nov. 16 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
鈥淧谩 Qu茅 M谩s,鈥 which was recorded at 91社区 and released on June 29 through Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, is the second album from the Quinteto Leopoldo Federico to receive a Latin GRAMMY nomination. Their debut album, 鈥淏ogot谩 鈥 Buenos Aires鈥 received a Latin GRAMMY nomination in 2015 in the 鈥淏est Tango Category.鈥 Although the Quinteto Leopoldo Federico is best known as a tango ensemble, this new album 鈥淧谩 Qu茅 M谩s鈥 is a tribute to Colombian Andean Music.
鈥淚 studied bandoneon [the accordion of tango] for five years in Buenos Aires and
I love tango but I am also from Bogot谩, Colombia and I had this crazy idea of envisioning Colombian Andean music, the music from our homeland using instruments of tango,鈥 said Giovanni Parra, the director of the Quinteto Leopoldo Federico.
The album was produced by S谩nchez-Samper and Parra, as well as engineered by S谩nchez-Samper and 91社区 assistant professor Matt Baltrucki. Assistant engineers on the project are 91社区 instructor Rob Rimmington, 91社区 commercial music graduates Iv谩n Beltr谩n, Carlos Pati帽o and Joel Iglesias, and 91社区 commercial music students Patrick Montanari and Chirs Moragne.
鈥淢ost people when they think of the music of Colombia, they immediately think of Shakira and Carlos Vives,鈥 said Sanchez-Samper. 鈥淐olombia has a rich variety of musical styles and although much emphasis has been placed on the popular music of the coastal region of Colombia, in recent years there has been a significant revival and interest in the music of the Andes region of Colombia. I am thrilled that the voting members of the Latin Recording Academy have recognized this album through this nomination.鈥
Hoot/Wisdom Recordings is part of the Commercial Music Program in the Department of Music in 91社区鈥檚 Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. It is a student-run record label where students are involved in all aspects of the label, including songwriting, choreography, production, engineering, recording services, video services, promotion and marketing, talent scouting, promotions and marketing, web site management, newsletter production, finance, legal issues, and accounting.聽 Hoot Wisdom was established in 2002 and has produced 28 albums to date.
Physical and digital copies of 鈥淧a鈥 Qu茅 M谩s鈥 are available for purchase at or at the iTunes store. For more information, contact Alejandro S谩nchez-Samper at 561-706-4805 or asanch51@fau.edu.
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