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Copyright 2018 by Kabir Sehgal
Foreword Douglas Brinkley
Copyright music Kabir Sehgal and Arturo OFarrill
Cover design by Cindy Joy
Cover photo 2018 by Kabir Sehgal
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018949849
ISBNs: 978-1-5387-4795-7 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-4796-4 (ebook), 978-1-5491-9995-0 (audiobook)
E3-20180817-JV-NF
To Jorge Francisco Castillo and the intrepid organizers of the Fandango Fronterizo festival
NON-FICTION
Coined
Jazzocracy
Fandango at the Wall
Walk in My Shoes (with Andrew Young)
Legion of Peace (with Muhammad Yunus)
CHILDRENS BOOKS
(all with Surishtha Sehgal)
A Bucket of Blessings
The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk
Festival of Color
Thread of Love
P for Poppadoms
Mother Goose Goes to India
POETRY
Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome (with Deepak Chopra)
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
EDWARD ABBEY, American novelist
I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico. I thought so at the time, when I was a youngster, only I had not moral courage enough to resign.
ULYSSES S. GRANT, 18th President of the United States and general
I paint flowers so they will not die.
FRIDA KAHLO, Mexican artist
This is a multimedia project that comes in multiple formats:
Fandango at the WallBook with CD
Format: Hardcover book with CD. Also available in e-reader versions.
About: The book is written by Kabir Sehgal. The CD includes four son jarocho songs; one piece by Rahim AlHaj Trio; one piece by Sahba Motallebi; and two pieces performed by Arturo OFarrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Availability: all major book retailers
Publisher: Hachette Audio and Grand Central Publishing
Fandango at the WallComplete Music
Format: Available as a digital download or streaming. Also comes in a two-CD set.
About: Nearly 30 songs led by Arturo OFarrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. These songs include son jarocho pieces that feature the likes of Patricio Hidalgo, Ramn Gutirrez, Tacho Utrera, Fernando Guadarrama, Wendy Cao, Martha Vega Hernandez, Zenen Zeferino, and Jorge Castillo, among others. The rest of the music features OFarrill, his band, and special guests such as Regina Carter, Antonio Sanchez, Akua Dixon, Villalobos Brothers, Ana Tijoux, Rahim AlHaj Trio, Mandy Gonzalez, and Jose Gurri Gurria-Cardenas, among others. We recorded the music at the San DiegoTijuana border and also at the Power Station studio in New York City.
Availability: all major music retailers and streaming services
Music is a Kabir Sehgal Production.
Record label: Resilience Music Alliance
Fandango at the WallAudio Book
Format: Digital download
About: Douglas Brinkley reads the foreword, Kabir Sehgal reads his book and the afterword, which was written by Ambassador Andrew Young. Arturo OFarrill underscores portions of the reading with a solo piano performance.
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Availability: all major book retailers
Fandango at the WallDocumentary
Format: film
This is a work in progress.
Please get in touch if you want to help at www.kabir.cc.
The CD that accompanies this book begins with four son jarocho songs listed below. These songs feature Patricio Hidalgo, Ramn Gutirrez, Tacho Utrera, Fernando Guadarrama, Wendy Cao, Martha Vega Hernandez, among others. Chant is a song performed by Rahim AlHaj Trio, and Birth is a solo piece by Sahba Motallebi. El Maquech and Up Against the Wall are performed by Arturo OFarrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with special guests.
El Siquisiri
El Cascabel
El Cupido
La Bamba
Chant
Birth
El Maquech
Up Against the Wall
The complete music of nearly 30 songs is sold and available separately.
Performing a fandango in Tijuana and looking through the border wall
Son jarocho musicians Patricio Hidalgo, Ramn Gutirrez, Tacho Utrera (all standing) performing with Arturo OFarrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
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W hen my musician friends Arturo OFarrill and Kabir Sehgal asked me to co-produce the album Fandango at the Wall and write a preface to the book version of the multimedia project, I seized the opportunity. Ever since Donald Trump issued deeply racist and bullying taunts about building an aesthetically ugly 722-mile-long wall along the US-Mexico border, Ive hungered to protest. When Ronald Reagan was president in 1986 during the Cold War, he thundered Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall while in divided Berlin; the world cheered for the triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. Trump, by contrast, wants to build a