{"id":3574,"date":"2019-06-24T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2019-06-23T23:57:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T03:57:24","slug":"la-importancia-de-llamarse-sintesis-resena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/la-importancia-de-llamarse-sintesis-resena\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of being called S\u00edntesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the year 1623, the space that today is known as Plaza de La Catedral was a monastery filled with cows, sailors and other specimens of the same ilk. A smelly site and badly seen, nicknamed by then La Ci\u00e9naga and that, later, with the construction of the Catholic temple and the mansions around it, it became fashionable: the space <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the white slave slaves in the city needed for their parties and ceremonies. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of time and history in between (on December 14, 2016), S\u00edntesis celebrated its forty years in music there. It is said fast, but it is a life pursuing the song of the author, the fusion of rock (in lucum\u00ed, in Spanish) with the complex roots of Afro-Cuban poetry and music. And of course, it had to be a symbolic concert. Not only did they remember their debut (the same day and month of 1976 in the same place), but they assumed that calling themselves Synthesis and playing in The Cathedral means, at least, that the stones of the temple are cracked even more, that their idea of trespassing the limits survived, or that today (among other things, but largely thanks to their music) we look more like what we are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Directed by Joseph Ros, the DVD <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Synthesis 4 Decades<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the concert gathers tried to capture the density of moment size from the greatest clarity and narrative cleanliness possible. Photography is as accurate as it is warm, and editing manages to keep the rhythm for one hour and 20 minutes of music. Very beautiful that presentation in which the Plaza is filled with people, and beautiful close-ups of old and young faces that feel the music from the audience. But the best of all (and I mean it) is the sound: it is one of the best live recordings I&#039;ve heard in Cuba in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00a8The strange man\u00a8 S\u00edntesis and Silvio Rodr\u00edguez\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k7smGpJuKYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They sound, as they should sound, 13 classics from different eras as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asoy\u00edn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The strange man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aguanile\u00f3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that show a polished band and in full form. There are always leaders, Carlos Alfonso and Ele Vald\u00e9s, but also a group of very competent young people: the percussionist Octavio Rodr\u00edguez, the drummer Hugo Cruz, the percussionist and singer Yaimi Karel Lay (his voice was a surprise here), the guitarist Ernesto Blanco, the singer and composer Eme Alfonso and the pianist Jos\u00e9 Gavilondo (someone tell me, by God, if his painting as instrumentalist and orchestrator, his scenic projection, does not remind him of the Leo Brouwer of the era of the Grupo de Sound Experimentation!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another highlight deserves the guests to the concert, mostly formal part of the band at some point in his career. Yes, I missed the mystical presence of Esteban Puebla and X Alfonso (perhaps because with them on board I started listening to S\u00edntesis for the nineties). But the rest is not wasted: from Silvio Rodr\u00edguez to Amaury P\u00e9rez, from Ern\u00e1n L\u00f3pez-Nussa to Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Vitier, including Niurka Gonz\u00e1lez, Pablo Men\u00e9ndez, Jos\u00e9 Bustillo, Denis Peralta, Fernando Calveiro and Fidel Garc\u00eda. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite moment of the concert is when the latter (&quot;Fide&quot;, as they call him from the audience) goes up to interpret <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Someone calls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a wonderful song by Donato Poveda that has <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not know what<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that immediately remits that lost candidness of the eighties.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3579\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3579\" data-attachment-id=\"3579\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/la-importancia-de-llamarse-sintesis-resena\/d7byouewsam4-g1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?fit=451%2C569&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"451,569\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"DVD S\u00edntesis 4 D\u00e9cadas. Dise\u00f1o: Nelson Ponce\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;DVD S\u00edntesis 4 D\u00e9cadas. Dise\u00f1o: Nelson Ponce&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;DVD S\u00edntesis 4 D\u00e9cadas. Dise\u00f1o: Nelson Ponce&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?fit=451%2C569&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3579\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?resize=451%2C569&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DVD S\u00edntesis 4 D\u00e9cadas. Dise\u00f1o: Nelson Ponce\" width=\"451\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?w=451&amp;ssl=1 451w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?resize=301%2C380&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?resize=139%2C175&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D7BYOueWsAM4-G1-1.jpg?resize=10%2C12&amp;ssl=1 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DVD Synthesis 4 Decades. Design: Nelson Ponce<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also collaborate spectacular dancers of the National Folkloric Ensemble, Yanexy Cruz, Yuli\u00e9n Fern\u00e1ndez and Dariana Garc\u00eda, who come to dance (and are undoubtedly) Oy\u00e1, Och\u00fan and Yemay\u00e1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this DVD wonder also has a low note. I have the impression that you could have taken more advantage of a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He showed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of graphic design like Nelson Ponce. It&#039;s just my opinion, but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S\u00edntesis<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 Decades<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it deserved more, more in the design of the cover and more in the interiors of the physical support, which is not fulfilled forty years every day! The same happens with the extra photos of the DVD, which only covers the period 1976-2006 and dispenses with elementary information such as the names of the musicians in each stage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the closing sounds <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opatereo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the untouched voice of Carlos Alfonso and those invited metals that shake the Cathedral once again, one is convinced that this is not another record (it can not be), but an opportunity to revalue the transcendence of Synthesis in music and that more diffuse that is called Cuban culture. In case there is still some clueless out there, Ochosi throws his arrows. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sobre el a\u00f1o 1623, el espacio que hoy se conoce como Plaza de La Catedral era un desaguadero atestado de vacas, marineros y dem\u00e1s espec\u00edmenes de igual cala\u00f1a. Un sitio maloliente y mal visto, apodado por entonces La Ci\u00e9naga y que, m\u00e1s tarde, con la construcci\u00f3n del templo cat\u00f3lico y las mansiones a su alrededor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3580,"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":[1143,1033,1142],"coauthors":[226],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resenas","tag-musica-afrocubana","tag-musica-cubana","tag-sintesis"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SINTESIS-2017.jpg?fit=2048%2C1391&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}