After the summer break, the Casa-Museo del Timple in Teguise has resumed its concert program for this year. Last Saturday at 8:30 p.m., the musicologist and multi-instrumentalist Félix Morales, a native of Tacoronte on the island of Tenerife, presented a show never before seen in this venue: 'Piélago', which means "part of the sea that is far from the land."
Félix Morales, who has maintained a close relationship with folklore from an early age, was accompanied by three musicians with great careers: David Duque, Jonatan Rodríguez and Juan Cantero. The audience enjoyed each of the pieces performed, surprised by the variety of instruments used, such as the saz (Turkish lute), oud (Arabic lute), symphony (medieval instrument), Andean charango, Turkish ney and Andean quena, fused with the guitar, the timple, the Gomero drum and the tambourine.
The show 'Piélago' offered a rich and varied content, with compositions such as "Los Novios" (a fusion of Canarian and Arabic folklore), "Corra el Agua" (tanganillo from Tenerife and medieval music), "Moliendo" (work song and Ottoman music), "Marinero soy de Amor" (anonymous Sephardic romance), "Amnesia" (a composition by David Duque for timple), "Centinela y Minero" and "Carnavalito Andino", among others.
Félix Morales and his fellow musicians conquered the audience with their show, achieving a union of geographies and chronologies in a unified and very careful artistic product. Each of the members performed a series of compositions and versions of various kinds, using exotic and historical instruments, offering a musical journey through the immensity of the globe and placing the Canary Islands and their sounds in the center of it.
The public asked them to continue playing, which Félix Morales and his companions pleased them with an encore and thus the public stood up and applauded them as they said goodbye. Francisco Javier Díaz, Councilor for Culture of the Teguise City Council, presented them with the poster announcing the concert.
