Carlos Odria on improvisation and notions of fluidity that influence his music

Musician and scholar Carlos Odria (Worcester State University) talks about heavy metal, Brazilian jazz, Daoism, the picado technique, migration from Peru, and other influences on his improvisational, hybridized, and fluid guitar-playing style. He also reviews the ethnomusicology research he conducted on urban tambores groups that transformed his perceptions of cultural production in metropolitan Lima.

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