Antonio Truyols
artivist • pianist • composer • educator
Antonio Truyols
artivist • pianist • composer • educator
album release concert, with social to follow
Sun, December 21, 6:30pm, free admission
broadway presbyterian church, NYC
Guest appearance by vanessa imani
“Let It Be A Tale” is a jazz & hip-hop album of resistance and hope. Join us for an album release event for a better future! Sunday, December 21, 6:30pm at Broadway Presbyterian Church (601 W114th St.) Two different bands will play five jazz pieces and three rap tracks, all inspired by the story, strength, and joy of Palestinians through the ongoing Israeli/US genocide and 78 years of land theft, apartheid, and colonization.
The Palestine Quartet (Antonio Truyols, piano; Teresa Sanchez, bass; Fernando Garcia, drums; Chris Bittner, tenor sax) will perform new jazz works, steeped in pain, joy, and social commentary. A second hip-hop band will perform rap tracks of justified anger towards the imperial structures that maintain the profitability of violence. Both jazz and hip-hop are genres born of oppression, appropriate mediums to use in the fight for Palestinian liberation. Additionally, my daughter Vanessa Imani, will make a guest appearance. With the release of her own album “What Is Me” this past October, she too is eager to make music for a more peaceful future.
The concert portion will last about an hour, followed by a social gathering. A time to commune with a community brought together by music for peace. Open to families, but parents be aware that some of the music contains profanities. We look forward to celebrating this new work of artivism for a free Palestine, a free Congo, a free Sudan; a truly liberated world where all children get to be children.
