Then, seated before his piano, he began tapping out notes in tandem with percussionist John Santos' extraordinary mlange of found and sampled sounds, including cymbals, chimes, a cellphone ring tone and a child's music box playing Frre Jacques." Once in a while, Sosa reached inside his piano to gently brush the strings with his hands, in a gesture of syncopation solidarity.
Gradually, they were joined by bass player and vocalist Childo Tomas and saxophonist-flutist Peter Apfelbaum, taking their places with the practiced ritualism of priests.