{"id":4103,"date":"2019-10-07T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2022-03-13T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:15:57","slug":"los-soneros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/los-soneros\/","title":{"rendered":"The son musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Nicholas Guillen<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In the end,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

after all the words\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

after the "act"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the speech, the flower<\/span><\/p>\n

ajada of the trova,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the six black soneros arrived<\/span><\/p>\n

completely black the flus, they arrived<\/span><\/p>\n

like six gravediggers in a row,<\/span><\/p>\n

until they take their places,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

as if they were looking for<\/span><\/p>\n

in the last quarter of the bottom<\/span><\/p>\n

to the dead<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And, resuscitator,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Broke the Son: Space<\/span><\/p>\n

It beat again in full glory,<\/span><\/p>\n

The seeds danced, the bristly<\/span><\/p>\n

tripaje of the hides woke up singing,<\/span><\/p>\n

the dry guiro built<\/span><\/p>\n

the bones of another ear<\/span><\/p>\n

to listen to the key of granadillo,<\/span><\/p>\n

to mock the solemn response<\/span><\/p>\n

of the jar, to stop corruption,<\/span><\/p>\n

to listen to the tumbles of the only sea<\/span><\/p>\n

of beauty,<\/span><\/p>\n

silver vibration,<\/span><\/p>\n

the being, the sound,<\/span><\/p>\n

death trickster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

then it was<\/span><\/p>\n

than the oldest<\/span><\/p>\n

of the soneros came forward<\/span><\/p>\n

breaking choir,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

with a jerky gesture,<\/span><\/p>\n

like someone who scares away a bug<\/span><\/p>\n

of the body: it was not dancing<\/span><\/p>\n

that: it didn't flow to the beat. hand raised,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

against the grain of time,<\/span><\/p>\n

ritualized the gestures<\/span><\/p>\n

of love: he was grumbling something<\/span><\/p>\n

to life escaping,<\/span><\/p>\n

disobedient of zeal,<\/span><\/p>\n

like a grandfather who gave bumps<\/span><\/p>\n

to the distracted grandson: to the woman<\/span><\/p>\n

something warned \u2013 beware! \u2013 to the jerk<\/span><\/p>\n

flow, but not quite<\/span><\/p>\n

he was bothered, like the one who treats<\/span><\/p>\n

with someone smaller, sometimes<\/span><\/p>\n

he burst out laughing at his frightening gesture<\/span><\/p>\n

with the coconut, cradling again<\/span><\/p>\n

the refrain, the maternal sway<\/span><\/p>\n

of the saying: "He fell woodworm<\/span><\/p>\n

to the peacock."<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

complacent<\/span><\/p>\n

life and death looked at each other<\/span><\/p>\n

like two old ladies in the mirror<\/span><\/p>\n

when the soneros arrived,<\/span><\/p>\n

when the real ones arrived<\/span><\/p>\n

gravediggers, when they arrived,<\/span><\/p>\n

when the dark came<\/span><\/p>\n

ancestral demand of the heart,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

when came what comes back<\/span><\/p>\n

ripping leather,<\/span><\/p>\n

without understanding composure<\/span><\/p>\n

-\u201cHe got woodworm\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to the peacock- when they arrived<\/span><\/p>\n

with old congo guaper\u00eda,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

scaring away fear<\/span><\/p>\n

With solemn laughing laughter, the gentlemen<\/span><\/p>\n

of glory, when they arrived<\/span><\/p>\n

-oh Son, oh Ser!- the Six Soneros!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(Taken from the book <\/span>Visitations<\/em>, Havana, Editions\u00a0<\/span>Union, 1970)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n At the end, after all the words, after the \u201cact\u201d, the speech, the faded flower of the trova, the six black soneros arrived<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1437,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72,8906],"tags":[1031,75,15],"coauthors":[4634],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literatura-feat-musica","category-variaciones","tag-musica-tradicional-cubana","tag-poesia","tag-son"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/los_soneros2.png?fit=1366%2C768&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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\/1437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}