CORRIDO DE LA SANGRE
THE TIGER LILLIES
“the spectacular projections used throughout the production. Director and video projection creator Mark Holthusen has created a visually gorgeous art installation that lives and breathes around the trio. Mexican idolatry is fused with marionette puppets that help tell the story like a living picture book, informing the lyrics and feel of the band’s music. It looks stunning.”
"Visually it is gorgeous. The staging is intimate, and the combination of projections, shadow puppetry and papercut artwork create a constant feeling of wonderment as reveal after reveal alters the staging like a kaleidoscope and creates a sense of the performance being peeled back through the years like Russian dolls unfolding in size.”
“The backdrop gives a sense of the decaying splendour of old Mexico and the ragged holes suggest the disintegration of cloth like flesh from a corpse. The projection of colours and shapes from fiesta lace and flowers to the gold of icons weeping blood to Mexican skies and flames of hell is visually stunning. It evokes the magical realism of Frida Kahlo but with the scale of Diego Rivera folk art murals. Director Mark Holthusen has created a beautiful visual spectacle that pulsates like a vast beautiful beating heart.”
DIRECTOR +PROJECTION + SET DESIGN + CONTENT
CREATIVE TEAM: Co-creator, Director & Designer: Mark Holthusen Composer: Martyn Jacques Writer: Peder Bjurman Video Technical Design & Production Co-ordinator: David Bernard Sound Engineer: Johnny Nolan
MARTYN JAQUES Vocals, Piano, Accordeon, Ukulele, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Hammond Organ, Rhodes Piano, Harmonica, Glockenspiel, Backing Vocals, Drums ADRIAN STOUT Upright Bass, Musical Saw, Euphonium, Backing vocals ANDREAS WINTER Drums CHRISTIAN KRILLE Trumpets TIMM BROCKMANN Drums, Tambourine Produced by Martyn Jaques. All songs written by Martyn Jaques.Recorded by Timm Brockmann at Red Light Studio, Berlin.All Upright Bass, Musical Saw and Euphonium tracks recorded by Adrian Stout, London. Mixing and Mastering by Timm Brockmann (with Martyn Jaques) in January and February 2017, Red Light Studio, Berlin.
“Corrido de la Sangre is such an incredibly sad and moving story, one which is so artistically and skillfully told that you don’t want the end...as with the best of performances, it all just looks so effortless and simple.”
The show is utterly transportive, though it’s not always immediately obvious to where. The story dictates the setting as the borderlands between Mexico and the USA, but it feels rather that Corrido de la Sangre is a trip (in every sense of the word) to a colourful, cartoon cabaret.”
“a feast for the eyes as well as the ears in an impressive marriage of visuals with the music and the script.”
