“Corrientes mean currents and refers to the ways that music and culture flow across borders and over seas, carried like seeds on winds that will new birth and creation. Corriente also means common, or basic, street, hood, cheap.”
Hailing from Bernal Heights, La Doña (born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea) is a music educator, activist, cultural worker, and one of the best artists in the Bay. We were honored to have her play White Crate’s five-year anniversary party back in October, and now we’re delighted to be enjoying her epic new album traversing countries, genres, musical styles, orchestrations, and collaborations with Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Son Rompe Pera, Rumba All-Stars, and more.
Corrientes “is a query and revelry in Afro-indigenous styles of music like cumbia, rumba, bachata, merengue, and son jarocho.” It feels alive, a celebration of people and culture unbiased by border or boundary. You can dance to it, sing to it, or even get nerdy and try to break down the music theory embedded within each of its tracks. It is complex as it is vibrant, it makes a statement about what it is to be a human from the Americas, and it’s also a party.
