Piece Comment

Review of Mezcal Dreams


Part of the Worlds of Difference series by Homelands Productions, producer/ presenter Marianne McCune serves up a interesting picture of Zoochila, Mexico and the effect of its men leaving home for work in the US. McCune tells of the towns efforts to be more self sufficient through Mezcal production by featuring the voices of residents and the sounds of the village celebrations and local distilling industry, but in listening, it's like looking at a great landscape that's a bit out of focus, or where there's always someone in the picture throwing off the composition of the picture.

This piece is sound rich, but doesn't seem to let those rich sounds breath or even establish in the foreground for long enough, before McCune's narration and writing pops up again.

Despite these slight drawbacks this piece would go well on a food program and will finally clear up the difference between mezcal and its cousin tequila.