Sweet Plantain is a string quartet that specializes in genre-blurring, original compositions and arrangements, as well as contemporary works by Latin American composers. Its unique style fuses Latin, classical, jazz and improvisational forms. The art of improvisation, once an integral part of Western classical music, has all but been abandoned in the training and performance of classical artists. Sweet Plantain, therefore, works to weave the possibilities of improvisation into classical music by arranging existing pieces and writing original compositions that contain improvised sections. The group also makes use of extended percussive techniques; some of them original creations, to best achieve and highlight the rhythmic characteristics of Latin music.

www.sweetplantain.com