Henry Rensch

Alfredo Balcacer: 9 Paredes

by Dan Bilawsky
October 15, 2020

If there's anything that can bind the artistic community in 2020, it's an understanding of isolation's impact. For guitarist Alfredo Balcacer, who was quarantining in his home city of Santo Domingo when COVID-19 closed everybody in, a sense of disorder and frustration, leavened by solace and acceptance, quickly became the norm. But rather than sit by and feel helpless, he filtered those feelings into his music.“9 Parades" (or “9 Walls") speaks to Balcacer's experiences spending months cooped up ...