Jordi Savall, arguing that music is a vehicle for understanding between peoples, also says it must be heard, so that history, even of a less glorious nature, is not forgotten. The Routes of Slavery, a programme that spans more than four centuries – from 1444 to 1888 (the year of the abolition of slavery in Brazil) celebrates music as a form of resistance to colonisers, of freedom and of survival by preserving the original culture. But it also provides the space for the cross between European and indigenous music, between colonisers and the colonised, creating a revealing palette of musical miscegenation.

La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hespèrion XXI
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Jordi Savall Viola da Gamba and Artistic director
Alberto Magassela Narrator

Guest musicians from Mali, Madagascar, Morroco, Brazil, Argentine, Venezuela, Mexico and Columbia 

Routes de l’Esclavages
Africa, Portugal, Spain and Latin America
Memories from Slavery 1444-1888