{"id":3774,"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2021-11-09T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:48:41","slug":"los-latidos-de-dayme-arocena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/los-latidos-de-dayme-arocena\/","title":{"rendered":"The heartbeats of Daym\u00e9 Arocena"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the third attempt, Daym\u00e9 Arocena got away with it. After a couple of albums and EPs that placed her as a worldwide relevant figure on the map of contemporary jazz, the singer born in Havana launches thoroughly in an operation in which she auscultates to herself, and she exorcised the demons of old debts that she had contracted with herself. The album \u2014which is named Sonocardiograma<\/i><\/a> (Brownswood Recordings, 2019) and will be available from September 6\u2014 it is a very personal production, which, while moving on the sound grounds that identify her, marks a watershed in her artist's career.<\/p>\n

This album is a reckoning of the Daym\u00e9 that today rises as a rising star with the adolescent Daym\u00e9 that composed instrumental passages for their deities; the one that grew up studying in a conservatory, living in the heart of a Havana neighborhood; the one who knew the two faces of love; the one has in musicians like La Lupe and Emiliano Salvador, guardian angels, who whisper and guide her throughout the journey.<\/p>\n

Structured in three suites (Trilog\u00eda, Cinco maneras de amar<\/i>, A difuntos presente<\/i>), the twelve tracks included in the album function as a highway to travel the sentimental geography through which Daym\u00e9 has been built. For his fortune she once again has an impeccable execution companion band \u2014 Jorge Luis Lagarza (keyboards, Vocoder<\/i>, choirs), Rafael Aldama (bass) and Marcos Morales and Jorge Carlos S\u00e1nchez (drums)\u2014 and the beauty and sobriety of music production by Jorge Luis Lagarza, a musician who grows by day, and Daym\u00e9 herself.<\/p>\n

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Cover of the suite \u00abTrilog\u00eda\u00bb, by Daym\u00e9 Arocena.<\/p><\/div>\n

The album opens with Trilogy,<\/i> which is made up of Nangareo <\/i>(part intro and part declaration of principles), Oy\u00e1, Osh\u00fan<\/i> and Yemay\u00e1<\/i>, and that is available in digital stores since last July 5. In this series of songs that were born in her teens, although it is today that they see the light, Arocena says things like \u201cbefore exist \/ I flat the burning sand, I pray, I breathe<\/i>\u201d, and she is entrusted to the spirits of the ancestors and orishas for the journey that she is about to begin. After the ceremony of Nangareo<\/i>Daym\u00e9, together with her musicians, offers both energetic and spiritual pieces, in which stands out the incorporation of drummer Jos\u00e9 Carlos S\u00e1nchez, who joins Marcos Morales to deliver an updated reinvention of the sounds of the bat\u00e1 drums.<\/p>\n

Cinco maneras de amar<\/i> It is a beautiful review of the roller coaster of love. Disappointments, sorrows, emotions, certainties followed by flaws, weave the carcass that makes us human beings, that with which we go out every day to the world convinced that at some point everything will make sense. Daym\u00e9 converts all this into songs in which she reels without grudge what makes us feel happy. And every so often, the heartbeat, explicit or figurative through the beats<\/i>, reminding us that this is a journey inside a person. Extra points for Menuet para un coraz\u00f3n<\/i>, a thrilling and electric theme in which Lagarza, Aldama and Morales demonstrate all their credentials of first class instrumentalists. Welcome this daym\u00e9 bigger, more adult, with healthy mature lyrics.<\/p>\n