Correo Aereo

Madeleine Sosin was born and raised in Minneapolis where, by the age of nine, she was a violin prodigy and Concert Mistress of the St. Paul Youth Orchestra. Around the same time, Abel Rocha was growing up in Mexico City performing bombo (drum), guitar and singing, inspired by his father's folk music group, Lacantun. Following nearly parallel paths of solo-navigation into Latin and world music, Abel and Madeleine crossed paths in 1991 at a flamenco party in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Abel was in Santa Fe touring with his traditional Mexican band, Quetzalcoatl, and Madeleine was performing with the underground Compost Theater Group. The two quickly became friends sharing an admiration for some of the pioneers of Latin folk music-Mercedes Sosa, Los Cantores del Panuco, Soledad Bravo-and fostered a musical partnership that would last more than a decade.

Correo Aereo relocated in 2001 to Seattle, Washington where they have been busy discovering the musical landscape of the Pacific Northwest. In 2002 they began composing music for the soundtrack to Shipibo, a documentary on the Shipibo Indians of the Peruvian Amazon by filmmaker Willem Malten of Kanseki Productions. Most recently Correo Aereo's music can be heard on nationally syndicated broadcasts of Democracy Now! on Pacifica Radio and they opened for Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) at an anti-war event in Santa Fe, NM on February 28, 2003.

Universal Pictures used one of their recordings, "Pena Huasteca," from their album, "Lo Que Me Dijo El Viento," in the feature film, The Life of David Gale, directed by Alan Parker, produced by Alan Parker and Nicolas Cage and filmed in Austin, Texas. The Life of David Gale, starring two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, and Oscar nominees Kate Winslet and Laura Linney opened February 21, 2003.

Correo Aereo was voted the Best Traditional Mexican/Latino Act in the Austin Music Awards, and runner up for Best World Music Band in 2001.

"Their music has sabor. Madeleine is constant and fluid motion. Her hands, her legs, her hips sway. She doesn't shake the maracas, she jerks, snaps, rolls, twirls and spins them. Abel is the counterweight; his relaxed, confident style of playing holds the stage together and makes the music solid. A better pair of performers I've not seen in Austin... or anywhere else. There's a huge difference between good performers and just good musicians. Abel and Madeleine are by far the best of both."
- Manuel Gonzalez, Austin Downtown Arts

Los Lobos' David Hidalgo has often stated that to play harp extremely well you most often cannot play other instruments. Abel Rocha calls that wisdom into question since his considerable skill on the harp is matched by his flying fingers on quinta huapanguera, guitar and cuatro. His high, affecting vocal attack often soars above Madeleine's lower register, singing in a startling and affecting reversal of traditional male-female harmony. Madeleine's strong attack on violin is a perfect match for Abel's quinta huapanguera on "Las dos Huastecas," a plea for peace between the musicians of two rival Mexican states (Tamaulipas and Veracruz) to get past their local pride and play music together.... the musical skill of this couple complements the impressive reach of their pan-Hispanic musical repertoire and marks Correo Aereo as one of the most exciting acoustic ensembles to appear in many years."
- Joe Compton, Dirty Linen Magazine

Listen to an MP3 sample:

Golpes Tocuyanos
Pena Huasteca

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