{"id":6613,"date":"2020-09-18T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:41:55","slug":"playlist-viejos-discos-con-tormentas-y-ciclones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/playlist-viejos-discos-con-tormentas-y-ciclones\/","title":{"rendered":"Playlist: old records with storms and cyclones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the hurricane season is in full swing and that the Atlantic \u2014 let's look at the forecast center maps for a moment \u2014 seems to be abuzz, let's dust off this playlist that Sigfredo Ariel made us a while ago, with that peculiar skill of his bringing to the present songs of yesteryear. This is a sound tour through music that once had storms and cyclones as protagonists, a list to listen to as we ask for a truce to the Caribbean in this dire 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

El cicl\u00f3n<\/i><\/b> (Alberto Villal\u00f3n)<\/b><\/p>\n

Performed by Regino L\u00f3pez, Adolfo Colombo and Pilar Jim\u00e9nez in March 1907 for the Victor firm (Vi68532), it is probably the first print of Cuban phonography with sung words that testifies to the passing through the Island of a \u201cmeteor\u201d, as they say lately. It is a hasty \u201cbolero\u201d that belongs to the zarzuela of the same title with music by Manuel Mauri and lyrics by the Robre\u00f1o brothers premiered in 1906 at the Alhambra Theater, apparently with considerable success. Also under the title El Ciclon, another record, dated October 1915, appears in the old Victor catalogs of a \"dialogue-song\" signed by Alberto Villal\u00f3n and performed by Colombo and the actress Consuelo Novoa, accompanied by the author at the guitar (Vi69090).<\/p>\n

Storm <\/i><\/b>(Oscar Hernandez)<\/b><\/p>\n

Villal\u00f3n himself is frequently featured as a guitarist on plates recorded by artists linked to the vernacular theater, among them the modest tiple Blanca V\u00e1zquez who, in a duet with Ofelia Rivas, recorded in March 1913 the key entitled The Storm (Vi65738) of the then very young troubadour Oscar Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n

\"Ilustraci\u00f3n:

Illustration: Roman Alsina \/ Magazine AM: PM.<\/p><\/div>\n

My Cuba was lost <\/i><\/b>(Manuel Crown)<\/b><\/p>\n

Recorded at the beginning of 1911 (Vi63342) by Floro Zorrilla and the author himself, this rumba by Manuel Corona alludes to the disaster left in its wake by a powerful cyclone popularly known as \u201cthat of the five days\u201d, which devastated the city of Havana and the tobacco regions of Pinar del R\u00edo as of October 14, 1910.<\/span><\/p>\n

the loose goat <\/i><\/b>(Antonio Morejon)<\/b><\/p>\n

This Guajiro point alludes to the same hurricane in the previous song by the singer of peasant tunes Antonio Morej\u00f3n, recorded with his bandurria in January 1911 (Vi 63255).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What fate so fatal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

My country persecutes you.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Here crying night and day<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the more my sorrow increases.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

peerless misadventures,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

they haven't seen each other right<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

because after the cyclone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

the goats in the savannah<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

have turned Havana<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

in classic chilindr\u00f3n.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The hurricane and the palm <\/i><\/b>(Sindo Garay)<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n