Fandango at the Wall

Arturo O’Farrill Journeys to the U.S.-Mexico Border to Erase Imaginary Dividing Lines to Envision a Future of Inclusion and Collaboration Between Nations

Fandango at the Wall: A Soundtrack for The United States, Mexico and Beyond –on Resilience Music Alliance 2 cd - 28 song album with book.

The project brings together brilliant voices from a variety of cultural and musical traditions to tear down a variety of walls that isolate us – physical, musical, or cultural. The piece was inspired by Jorge Francisco Castillo, a retired librarian who has organized the Fandango Fronterizo Festival for the past decade. The annual event gathers son jarocho musicians on both sides of the border wall between Tijuana and San Diego for a celebratory jam session.

O’Farrill’s esteemed Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and Castillo’s son jarocho musicians came together at the border, joined by a more than 60 gifted musicians representing both sides of that divide as well as several of the countries targeted by President Trump’s travel ban: Broadway singer-actress Mandy Gonzalez (Hamilton, In the Heights); jazz greats Regina Carter (violin), Akua Dixon (cello), and Antonio Sanchez (drums); multi-talented Mexican violin trio The Villalobos Brothers; son jarocho greats Patricio Hidalgo, Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández, and Tacho Utréra; French-Chilean rapper-singer Ana Tijoux; Iraqi-American oud master Rahim AlHaj and his trio; Iranian sitar virtuoso Sahba Motallebi; and many others. The music is produced by Kabir Sehgal, Rafa Sardina, and Doug Davis with co-producers Jorge Franscico Castillo and Douglas Brinkley. 

CD 1 Songs

Music released by Resilience Music Alliance

1. Welcome to the Tijuana-San Diego Border by Arturo O’Farrill

2. Xalapa Bang!

3. El Maquech

4. Somos Sur

5. El Pijul

6. Amor Sin Fronteras

7. Intro to Conga Patria

8. Conga Patria

9. Invisible Suite: Invisible Cities

10. Invisible Suite: Free Falling Borderless

11. Invisible Suite: Invisible Beings

12. Intro to Fly Away

13. Fly Away

14. Giulia

15. Bemba Y Tablao

16. Identidades Mestizas

17. Cielito Lindo

CD 2 Songs

Music released by Resilience Music Alliance

1. Welcome to the Fandango by Jorge Francisco Castillo

2. El Siquisiri

3. El Cascabel

4. Tabla Rasa

5. Cupido

6. Hummingbird Blues

7. La Bamba

8. Jaiicasosebaim Noone

9. Guanabana

10. Minotauro

11. La Morena

12. El Pájaro Cú

13. Up Against the Wall

14. Las Patronas

15. Son De Las Poblanas

16. Line In The Sand