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This version is for Marimba and Vibraphone.
Instruments: Vibraphone, 5 Octave Marimba and Cow-bell playing with pedal.
The version for Marimba, Vibraphone and String Orchestra is also available.
This piece is dedicated to my dear friends, two amazing Italian musicians, Filippo Lattanzi and Anna Lisa Pisanu - Wood and Wind Duo.
Charanga is a term given to traditional ensembles of Cuban Dance music. They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and consisted of heavily son-influenced material, performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra. Charanga has its roots in European art-house music, as well as Spanish and African music.
Salada in Spanish means “salty”, but it also means “that smells of the sea”.
In this piece, the marimba plays riffs (or tumbaos) that give the music a driving nature. Rhythm patterns are based around the clave pattern, which locks in to form one extensive melodic section above which the vibraphone improvises.