“Pandeiretas a tocar!” The call goes out and the whole track lifts. Baiuca and Mondra take a traditional Galician melody and rebuild it around club-weight electronics and pandeireta. The elements sit together naturally. It is a seamless meeting of folk and electronic production. These represent two of the most distinctive projects in Galician music, and the track sounds inevitable.

A mazaroca is a portion of flax in Galician, planted, harvested and woven into cloth. Baiuca and Mondra carry that image straight into the song: music inherited, transformed, sung forward. Alejandro Guillán (Baiuca), Martín Mondragón (Mondra) and Sergio Pérez build the production together, with backing vocals from Alejandra and Andrea Montero adding weight to refrains that circle back on themselves like the communal dance they evoke: pandeireta chants driving a collective energy that works in a village square and a packed dancefloor equally well.

Baiuca has spent the best part of a decade pulling Galician folk, the mysticism of the meigas, and the trance of the cantareiras through synthesisers and dancefloor electronics. This approach treats tradition as raw material to be reshaped. Mondra, a cantareiro and dancer, brings a complementary physical energy grounded in oral culture and the sheer fact of people moving together.

Directed by Daniel Rodríguez and shot at the Cidade da Cultura in Santiago de Compostela with nearly forty dancers, the accompanying video puts that collective dimension directly on screen.

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