{"id":10876,"date":"2022-04-22T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:03:35","slug":"habana-400-am-jotabarrioz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/habana-400-am-jotabarrioz\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana 4:00 AM \/ Jotabarrioz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this Havana that is falling\/<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This city full of bodies\/<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These streets simulate deserts\/<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to art I am not dead.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana 4:00 AM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana wakes up at 4:00 am, wrapped in melodies that embrace, in memories and images that give us back the love, the euphoria, the fears, the doubts and nostalgia of a generation. A city in which, after all, the only thing left is to move forward, dispossessed and devoid of leaves, but still alive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, set in the early hours of dawn and reflected in sound symbols and verses that refer to that moment of the day, comes this phonogram by Jotabarrioz; a photographic album that travels through the city in each song, with a voice at times torn, or energetic, or sensual, and through images that also find refuge in more intimate spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">singles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> previous, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana 4:00 AM<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made up of eight pieces and published under the Puntilla Music label<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it has a more digital sound. Jotabarrioz&#039;s solo debut album covers genres such as lo-fi pop, reggaeton, neoperreo, trap, contemporary R&amp;B, song, ballad, rap, and fusion with other elements of Cuban sonority. Heartbreak, the wear and tear of a relationship that has finally foundered, hope, the ups and downs in emotions, how to continue after a breakup\/farewell, and the influence and importance of certain presences that leave traces in our lives, are some of the themes of this phonogram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t-j4FDI7PbQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the high number of collaborations is obvious, a characteristic that identifies it with the trends of the global music industry.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that brings new nuances to an album whose lyrics arise with the emergence of different moods. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghost<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, third <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">track<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jota is accompanied by David Blanco, one of the most talented musicians on the island&#039;s pop-rock scene; while in the next topic, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expect<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, appears Alfie, member of the group Qva Libre. Then in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hot-chat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rappers El Individuo and JD Asere take part, both with a strong presence in the Cuban hip hop scene in recent times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experienced emotions or feelings make up an x-ray of this phonogram with a story divided into three moments: before \/ during \/ and after an inevitable breakup. What has been experienced before the outcome, Jotabarrioz presents us in small bursts, like signs, to which he returns from the remembrances: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the afternoons looking at the sea, the kisses in the dark. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each picture<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014second track\u2014 alludes to the pain caused by the longing for what is no longer there (I am sure that this scene will be familiar to more than one of us); and it is difficult to accept that the days have passed and spring has not yet arrived again. Alcohol, written unanswered, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">another night of amnesia somewhere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or another body are escape doors that close in our faces, because the intended oblivion does not arrive:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the time stops.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_matxV9Evw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expect<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reminds us of someone who <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">despite not being<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> returns again and again to our memory, when he does not fall asleep next to his nakedness and in the storm. In a song that alludes to intruders, to third parties who may be on the lookout for the slightest imbalance (interpreted as an opportunity) in a relationship. Sincerity <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as consolation and prison<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The unfulfilled promises that distance us even more... Insatiable need to be close. A distance, in turn, that does not allow us to breathe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana 4:00 a.m.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that interlude, there are allusions impossible to ignore and that appear as a background, among them, the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Juan Carlos Tab\u00edo and Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hab\u00e1name<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a song by Carlos Varela \u2014where you can also see the mystery and suffering caused by the wear and tear of the city\u2014 and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">memories of underdevelopment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vinyl record scratching through. This fifth track of the album is very intertextual: it is also cohabited by other endearing cinematographic fiction fragments such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vampires in Havana<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana Blues<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four seasons of Havana<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The survivors<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Small pieces of a puzzle\/mosaic that, in the form of winks, reflect a complex Cuban society with problems as acute as stones <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immovable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_mLF45M7_9gca1WJm9iis7wrKzFhUko5Xw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will we really be able to detach ourselves from everything we feel? That&#039;s what we try, at least from resignation. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bad love song<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it could then be that last letter, the last attempt to share more time with those who have us <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dopamine scented the brain. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not so easy to give up the plans that we thought together but that will no longer be, the hugs that we yearned for infinite, the lips getting closer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Jotabarrioz, the name of this production responds to its moments of low light. Each song, he says, is a phase of his night. His plots emerged in the early morning hours, in the moments where, perhaps, creation flows best. That&#039;s why <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Havana 4:00 AM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It should be heard in its natural habitat, which is at night, preferably with a broken heart, or at least with dim lighting that muffles the heart a bit. Its enjoyment implies opening ourselves, searching within ourselves from that non-place where, although vulnerable, we are more human, and letting the cracks allow entry. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the end<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the light.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3whr8zP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen <em>Havana 4:00 AM<\/em> here.<\/a><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habana 4:00 AM should be heard in its natural habitat, which is at night, preferably with a broken heart, or at least with dim lighting that muffles the heart a bit. Its enjoyment involves opening ourselves up, searching within ourselves from that non-place where, although vulnerable, we are more human, and letting the cracks allow the entrance \u2014at the end\u2014 of the light.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1571,"featured_media":10877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[9033,9029,8633,9030,7946,8683,78],"coauthors":[9028],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resenas","tag-el-trap","tag-habana-400-am","tag-jotabarrioz","tag-lo-fi-pop","tag-puntilla-music","tag-rb","tag-regueton"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jota-_-portada-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1170&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}