{"id":11224,"date":"2022-05-17T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2022-05-20T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T11:19:41","slug":"panorama-abril-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"April Outlook: Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/\"><b>Magazine AM: PM<\/b><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April passed like a whirlwind through our lives. It was a vertiginous month marked by the reopening of F\u00e1brica de Arte Cubano, with its concerts, <i>jam<\/i>, exhibitions, dance workshops, <i>master class<\/i>; the granting of the 2022 Grammy Awards to Cubans Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho Vald\u00e9s and Alex Cuba; the nominations for the next Cubadisco Awards; and the sudden departure of three prominent artists from the Cuban music scene: the troubadour L\u00e1zaro Garc\u00eda, the DJ and promoter of electronic sounds Ernesto Jorge Hidalgo (.aka DJ Tiko), and the flutist and leader of the group NG La Banda, Jos\u00e9 Luis Cortes (El Tosco).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To all this is added the launch of the book\u00a0 <i>Celia in Cuba <\/i>(1925-1962), by the Cuban musicographer Rosa Marquetti Torres, in which the vital and professional circumstances are carefully revealed, as well as the initial trajectory that prepared the subsequent stardom of this immense artist who became an icon of the Latin in United States and the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/es\/Rosa-Marquetti-Torres\/dp\/B09XZM7D3G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly recommended reading<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, musical releases were not far behind:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qkDP2Faaaug\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Resilience\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4cDcoXSBGS0FxrLpNtfaRo?si=GxKsVL9bSMudiVRVDarTrA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban-Swiss violinist and singer Yilian Ca\u00f1izares premiered her EP this April <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resilience<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is itself its own <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">statement:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The strings are important in this material and, together with sensitive lyrics, African touches and Western melodies, describe the feeling of loss that the artist was going through at the time of composing these songs. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incantation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the first single, is a collaboration with Michael League that deserves several listens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IoIRXuD6wrw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The voices of Leoni Torres and Lenier come together in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poison<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a little sauce with the sonero plucking of the Cuban tres, and a fresh and sensual text, whose harmony, developed in mambos and tumbaos, is reminiscent of many themes of Cuban timba and salsa. If your mouth smells of danger, you are listening to the right song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqCc4h1sm_Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 3 Musketeers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the first <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">track<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from a self-titled DVD, produced by Bis Music and created by Ruy Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez-Nussa, Harold L\u00f3pez-Nussa, William Roblejo and Dayron Ortiz. Together, from a jazz environment, they bring back Cuban sounds close to the rumba with the guaguanc\u00f3 key and the offbeat blocks. The development of the melodic-harmonic motifs is accompanied by improvised sequences that work with sound elements from rock, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> jazz, from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">latin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and I sing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5NhfmHb81z4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early morning <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it&#039;s a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">single<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that is perceived differently in all your listeners. It is also a totally innovative success of its creators, the American singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Xenia Rubinos and the Cuban El Individuo. The latter, a rapper who has a beautiful poetry that navigates scenes manipulated by electronic sounds, and that is perfectly complemented by her voice, hopeful, subtle, closely attached to R&amp;B and experimental jazz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mF82KZ52do\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pam pam pam<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appears with this video <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lyrics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> animated by the Orquesta Arag\u00f3n with Oscar D&#039;Le\u00f3n, released on digital platforms by Puntilla Music. Two chairs of Caribbean music that, through the sounds of the charanga, enhance choruses full of flavor to get the dancer&#039;s feet moving. Surely you will be attracted by their choirs, their guides, their daring and funny lyrics, because with these musicians and &quot;with this rhythm, you have to take your hat off&quot;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HGpnsWqmqM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new generation of Cuban music has an unmissable talent, that&#039;s why Boomerang is among our recommendations today with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">look at it look at it<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The theme has beautiful lyrics, a melody with many nuances indebted to Cuban trova, and harmonized choirs that take your breath away. Its protagonists are a new alternative band that makes Cuban music with R&amp;B, funk, jazz, pop rock and experimental electronics. Sergio Ochoa on vocals, along with Frank Fonte on bass, and Sim\u00f3n Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez on piano, seek new paths for alternative song on the Island. Arnerys Toledano Font and Amed de la Paz appear in the choirs, while in the guitar prints its stamp Daniel Sa\u00fal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Showoff\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4s0nKLtcG9ntbd6rgaU4mx?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are purely Cuban and traditional lives in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the smug,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the most popular topics <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For my three <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2022, Egrem\/Soundwear Productions), the phonogram of the tresera Yarima Blanco together with the ensemble Son Latino. Many intertextual quotations are heard in this<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> track<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that drinks from the musical sap of one of the star genres of Cuban music. The sonera rhythmic codes are reinforced and the \u201cArag\u00f3n-style\u201d choirs, with their picaresque guides and their improvisations with the tres, invite you to dance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Cytcgj4hG4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camila Cabello has Latin blood to eat and to wear, and she always uses it in favor of her music, which enriches it even more. That&#039;s why <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&#039;t Go Yet, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of his most recent songs tastes like that multicultural ajiaco that he incorporates into cumbia, samba and Caribbean music. Listen to it amplified and enjoy the positive energy it transmits in company.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VoSjxKBT3CA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three women of pure claw join in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lavender &amp; Red Roses. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibeyi and Jorja Smith develop in this single a story from Greek mythology that, according to them, personifies destiny. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lavender &amp; Red Roses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a song about the feeling we all experience when we love someone who is troublesome. It can be a partner, a brother, a father, a friend.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audiovisual that accompanies this <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">single<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is directed by Lucrecia Taormina and set in the age of myth. The song will also be included in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spell 31, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the upcoming Ibeyi album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evmVMl3okro\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voyager<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the second <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">track<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the self-titled album by pianist Iv\u00e1n <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cantaloupe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lewis. His video, just released this month on digital platforms, was directed by Joseph Ros, one of the most sought-after filmmakers with the longest track record on the Island. Through the sound of that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">latin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> melodic and sensitive jazz, a story starring Mel\u00f3n himself, set in the style <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vintage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, traveling through many imaginary universes of his creative mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>May: what&#039;s to come<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cubadisco, the most relevant event of Cuban music, celebrates its 25th edition beginning this month. Soon we will have news of the award-winning albums in the contest. Later, the Havana World Music festival will heat up the Club<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">500, from El Vedado in Havana, from 26 to 28, with a poster that brings artists from the patio and other revelations from abroad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-argentina\/\">ARGENTINA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-bolivia\/\">BOLIVIA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-brasil\/\">BRAZIL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-colombia\/\">COLOMBIA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-cuba\/\">CUBA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-espana\/\">SPAIN<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-mexico\/\">MEXICO<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/panorama-abril-peru\/\">PERU<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Por Magazine AM: PM Abril pas\u00f3 como un torbellino por nuestras vidas. Fue un mes vertiginoso marcado por la reapertura de F\u00e1brica de Arte Cubano, con sus conciertos, jam session, exposiciones, talleres de baile, masterclass; el otorgamiento de los Premios Grammy 2022 a los cubanos Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho Vald\u00e9s y Alex Cuba; las nominaciones a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1514,"featured_media":11284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8172],"tags":[5485,9154,453,462,1334,544,4708,551,5794,494,870,68,8720,9156,9150,9149,6181,9153,496,9155,9151,9152,8629,9148],"coauthors":[8171],"class_list":["post-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faro","tag-alex-cuba","tag-boomerang","tag-camila-cabello","tag-chucho-valdes","tag-cuba","tag-cubadisco","tag-el-individuo","tag-fabrica-de-arte-cubano","tag-gonzalo-rubalcaba","tag-harold-lopez-nussa","tag-havana-world-music","tag-ibeyi","tag-ivan-melon-lewis","tag-jorja-smith","tag-leoni-torres-y-lenier","tag-magazine-am-pm","tag-orquesta-aragon","tag-oscar-dleon","tag-ruy-adrian-lopez-nussa","tag-son-latino","tag-william-roblejo-y-dayron-ortiz","tag-xenia-rubinos","tag-yarima-blanco","tag-yilian-canizares"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Cuba-panorama-abril.jpg?fit=1816%2C830&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","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\/1514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11341,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions\/11341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}