{"id":8466,"date":"2021-07-09T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:04:17","slug":"idania-valdes-mas-alla-del-club-social-idania-valdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/idania-valdes-mas-alla-del-club-social-idania-valdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Idania Vald\u00e9s: Beyond the social club \/ Idania Vald\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis you are hearing \/ It is no longer me \/ It is the echo of a feeling\u201d. I am pleased to start this review of the CD\/DVD with this. <\/span>Idania Vald\u00e9s: Beyond the social club <\/span><\/i>(Egrem, 2021), presented on April 23 on the different digital platforms. The quote, taken from the song <\/span>Echo<\/span><\/i> by Uruguayan Jorge Drexler and included in the repertoire of this album, I assume that it can be a good start to listen to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite what these lines indicate, the Idania Vald\u00e9s that we can find on this occasion, enjoyable live from the filming of her concert at the Yara cinema theater on March 8, 2017, is her; the woman willing to "get rid" of the labels that frame her in the Buena Vista Social Club, and who dares to interpret bolero, chang\u00fc\u00ed, chachach\u00e1, among other genres. Songs by well-known authors of the Cuban repertoire with surprising arrangements; others, more contemporary, and all carefully interpreted by her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Idania does not deny its belonging to the emblematic group of traditional Cuban music. In fact, much of what he must have learned in those 15 years is perceived in this project, Cubadisco Award 2020-2021 in the category of Audiovisual Show (live concert) of that edition. Idania is Cuban, seasoned with elegance, her own vocal technique and exquisiteness.<\/span><\/p>\n

I confess that I had already heard songs included in their first album <\/span>Goodness<\/span><\/i> (Colibr\u00ed, 2014) that return in this new production \u2014such as the one that titles the plate and <\/span>While<\/span><\/i>\u2014, but I really enjoyed listening to the others and then seeing the sober and refined concert on screen, whose audiovisual production was in charge of Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez and the artist herself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Attention, and this for me is relevant: I know Idania, her work, her way of dialoguing, her desire to transcend for herself and not because "she comes from the breed of the greyhound". I know how important it is for you to find yourself in every gesture, in every movement of yours on stage, in every look, in every tonal shift. Knowing her makes me realize that she must be happy with what she has achieved, and confirms to me \u2014individual tastes aside\u2014 that it is necessary to approach her when you want to talk about contemporary Cuban female voices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover of the CD\/DVD Idania Vald\u00e9s: Beyond the social club. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, as a <\/span>bonus track<\/span><\/i> valuable, Idania surrounded herself with excellent musicians: Michel Herrera on sax and in charge of musical direction, Edgar Mart\u00ednez and Adel Gonz\u00e1lez on congas, Jes\u00fas Pupo and Geovanis Alc\u00e1ntara on piano, Frank Rubio on bass, Dayron Ortiz on guitar. guitar, C\u00e9sar Ochoa on acoustic guitar, Aniel Tamayo and David Su\u00e1rez on drums<\/em>, Thommy Lowry and L\u00e1zaro Oviedo on trumpets, Eduardo Sandoval on trombone. Some of them are members of their usual group, and that stands out in the musical empathy that is achieved. The others are luxury guests, with whom she was comfortable, at ease, queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a good album to listen to and if you have the audiovisual at hand, the better, because each interpretation has extra points when you see the real Idania, and not so much the one that can be "retouched" with the classic tools of a recording.<\/span><\/p>\n

C\u00e9sar Portillo de la Luz should be happy and that is how Marta Vald\u00e9s, Polito Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Jorge Drexler, Alain P\u00e9rez and his father Gradelio, Descemer Bueno, David Torrens, Amaury Guti\u00e9rrez, Ram\u00f3n Cabrera, or Jesus\u00edn Cruz should feel, to see their compositions reborn in this project. That yes, and I return to the song that I mentioned at the beginning, sometimes it is difficult to separate from the version and the original style of a song, but accepting the challenge goes for both parties, that is, also for the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eliades Ochoa, Amadito Vald\u00e9s (father of Idania), Barbarito Torres, Haila Mar\u00eda Mompi\u00e9, Leo Garrido, Hayde\u00e9 Milan\u00e9s and Alain P\u00e9rez accepted her invitation and accompany this performer in songs whose sonority was enriched from these unions. Justly <\/span>Echo<\/span><\/i>, with arrangements by Germ\u00e1n Velazco, is completely new, and Amadito Vald\u00e9s shows off his virtuosity, as one of the most renowned percussionists in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alain P\u00e9rez, more than his voice, places the bass, soft, powerful and glamorous in <\/span>Teach him to love you <\/span><\/i>of his joint authorship with his father Gradelio, and was<\/span> cute (although cuteness, what do you say, beauty, is not a pattern to qualify) the complicity created between the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sublime union with Hayde\u00e9 Milan\u00e9s in the interpretation of <\/span>In us \/Goodbye, happiness \/Words<\/span><\/i>;<\/span> and I appreciate the choice of Haila to accompany her in <\/span>Your voice<\/span><\/i>, because the filling of the two vocal textures was very successful in that theme. The king of the lute, Barbarito Torres, put sandunga on <\/span>let me go alone<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 and Eliades Ochoa added more than that, deliciousness, with <\/span>I fell in love silly<\/span><\/i>, from his repertoire, a theme that I thought would close the concert. The reaffirmation of love with Leo Garrido in <\/span>my way<\/span><\/i>, by Amaury Guti\u00e9rrez, seen and heard several times, here takes on another nuance, because it is the culminating moment of an important opportunity in Idania's career and he was there, and it was felt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n