Tres Toritos

In Mexican slang it is very common to hear "échate un Torito", this usually means that someone is asking you to challenge them with an ironic phrase or someone is asking you to show that you are bolder than others.

In the case of my piece, metaphorically speaking, I challenge the performers and the audience to enter a sound world of great vitality and musical virtuosity. In other words, the musicians develop a complex weave where they seem to challenge each other, the speeches of each one come and go, questions and answers more and more forceful flow incessantly. Only the second movement invites to reflection and rest, hence its name (truce) and is perhaps the only moment where each one prepares his strategy to follow. At the end the sound becomes more aggressive and insistent, a volatile discourse envelops the coming and going of the ideas of a personal story that somehow reminds me of my favorite son from Veracruz "El toro zacamandú".

The piece is dedicated to the memory of the great sonero musician and dear friend "salvador el negro ojeda".

— Gabriela Ortiz