Music is love, music is transparency, music is everything beautiful depending on how you want to see it.
   — Adel Nuñez Castillo (“El Sobroso”)

These four selections offer a deeply personal exploration of the music and culture of surrounding particular individuals, from Cuba to the Casamance region of West Africa.

Films

Mind Hands Work: Fidel Sambou Builds an Ekonting
   — by Professor Scott Linford / Official Selection Rai Film Festival 2025

El Sabroso
about Cuban tres-guitarist Adel Nuñez Castillo
   — by Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti /
   Official Selection, Newport Beach Film Festival 2025

Oh Boy
   — by Jen Sherrill, graduate student specializing in ethnomusicology

Rubble
“When the day and all else is gone, what remains is the party in the rubble”
   — by Ana María Díaz-Pinto

Free