“The arrangements offered here by Sonaranda contrast with many current trends, where the word “fusion” mistakenly tends to describe stylistic mixtures that do not always work well together. Instead, the pieces recorded here are characterized by a welcome combination of clarity, transparency, purity... and a wise choice of musical instruments”.

Juan Arturo Brennan

“The name Sonaranda means ‘son that sows its way and moves on’, and this is a son that moves well, opening new pathways we all traverse on the plains and mountains. One of the features of genuine popular art is that, if we consider it in its highest sense, it resists non-movement, opposing atrophy, and is always changing while at the same time still remains true to itself. And in Sonaranda’s art we find that same elusive quality: sowing, plowing and building new roads, as it shows us one of the ways in which popular art may adapt to these changing times: by constant renovation and by seizing new technological, musical, expressive elements, keeping its intimate essence unaltered, as a true artistic expression”.

Antonio Corona

“The contents of the ‘son that sows its way and moves on’ allows us to approach a Mestizo musical expression situated between primitive, original artistic manifestations and the ornamentation, phrasing, woven melodies and harmonies of other musical vocabularies, such as jazz, with sparingly used doses of counterpoint tactics, also applied to the arrangements”.                                                                    Eduardo Soto Millán. Revista Proceso.

“Sonaranda is a quintet that makes music a vital experience, whose deep source is found in our country’s traditional music. However, its work concerns the search for continuous renovation and is based on our musical roots in order to spread the high flight of recreation and the fortunate discovery of making previously heard music sound renovated, totally new”.

    Gregorio Martínez Moctezuma. Azteca 21.