Video: Su cadencia placentera / Its sound, so pure and so haunting

This three minute movie, recorded in Villanueva de Tapia (Spain) in 2004, demonstrates a décima IN ENGLISH with a rhyming Spanish translation, performed in the rumba style with my homemade plastic drums, which fall apart at the end of the song. The characteristic "tonada de los presos" melody and the structure are borrowed from "Tawiri", a song performed by the Cuban folkoric group Yoruba Andabo. The chorus is from Calderon de la Barca's "La vida es sueño", a famous 17th century play partially written in décima form.