{"id":11912,"date":"2022-08-19T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:51:34","slug":"como-una-pelicula-nube-roja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/como-una-pelicula-nube-roja\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a movie \/ Red Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

After four years and a handful of singles, Nube Roja returns with <\/span>like a movie<\/span><\/i>, his third studio album; a fiction album,<\/span> not only because of its title and its letters populated by costumes, characters and reflections on what is real and what is false, but also because in it we find a transfigured Red Cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

As children, role-playing games are very common and important. But they are not left behind at some stage of growth: adult life consists, more or less, of playing characters. We are one person at work, another in a bar, and a completely different person at the CDR balance assemblies. In the end, the real people that we are, although it sounds like a paradox, are each one of those versions, and at the same time the sum of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that music helps us recover the playful character that these performances had as children. Who has not drummed to a drum, played guitars in the air, or sung in the shower... or in the rain? Going further, when I listen to music I can feel myself in the skin of someone I'm not: if Los Van Van plays, I'm capable of breaking any dance floor, and in reality I'm an inveterate pat\u00f3n; with reggaeton, I become a bichote, while if a person I find attractive says half a word to me, I will gaguear for at least 15 minutes; With pop music I feel like a happy madman, without worries, even though after taking off my headphones I have to go talk to my psychiatrist because it made me very anxious to read in the <\/span>tarakai<\/span><\/i> that the price of horse mackerel in Kiribati rose 58 cents. Nube Roja does the same thing on his new album: he plays at being what he is not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The group has been classified as a "strawberry band", it is said that they make light songs for "daddy's children" and that their lyrics are superficial. They are also often questioned if what they do is Cuban music. At this point in the 21st century, if an artist does not cultivate a more or less traditional genre, or introduces "indigenous" elements into his sonority: a Cuban key, a guiro, a tres..., he is disqualified, or at least lowered. its percentage of Cubanness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this questioning is not new for the bands of the Island, much less for those that interpret foreign genres. It is true that good lyrics are not exactly one of Nube Roja's virtues, but, on the other hand, it doesn't have to be: Nube Roja makes music for fun. The lyrics of Bruno Mars and John Mayer can be equal to or lighter than those of les cubanes and nobody seems to mind. As if "nonsense" in English sounded prettier. Who are the superficial then, the Cuban bands or those who only listen to that type of music if it is <\/span>Made in Yuma<\/span><\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n