Mas Aya’s Music Keeps Quiet Riots
Brandon Valdivia’s “Momento Presente” is like a subpoena. In the remarkable track of the September album “Máscaras”, an unusual, not quite legit rhythm rumbles under the whirlpools of a tin whistle. A bell rings, and soon an elder’s divine voice calls out a call to action. “Right now the oppressors and the oppressed are separated,” …