{"id":8792,"date":"2021-09-29T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:00:22","slug":"oda-al-plagio-yunier-perez-gape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/oda-al-plagio-yunier-perez-gape\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Plagiarism \/ Yunier P\u00e9rez \u201cGape\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend had told me about Gape in a download on 13 y G, he told me how ingenious his lyrics were while, through Zapya, he sent me the songs. That night, when I got home and got ready to go into Yunier's album, I noticed that I had lost my phone in a bank on Avenida de los Presidentes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Months later, at the Longina Festival, a rather bland group was playing at La Luna Naranja, part of the audience had been outside for some time until another artist came on, and I had managed to start a rather promising chat with one of the girls who were waiting in the park of the front. But the conversation had not reached five minutes when Yunier's first chords began to sound and she, excusing herself, went to the call of her group that was running to reach the best positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suspecting, after both incidents, that this Gape could not bode well for my life, I looked for a space to sit down and listened to Yunier P\u00e9rez for the first time. The spectacle of this troubadour not only purged with laughter the considerable suspicion with which he judged him, but also completely fired the mood of the public who now attended anxiously, waiting for the next rhyme.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His compositions move along two easily differentiated lanes, on one side the "serious" and on the other the satire, the pooch. Although it is in the latter where the singer-songwriter from Altahabana accelerates the strongest, in his repertoire there is no lack of space for tenderness when in <\/span>Soulmates<\/span><\/i> sings: \u201cWhat will her face look like? \/ Is she already asleep? \/ Will you retrace the streets of my nocturnal city \/ or is it day in your city? or in <\/span>Moon of Altahabana<\/span><\/i>, closing the song with the coda pleading: \u201cDon't rush\/ the morning\/ Altahabana moon\/ Last a little longer for me\/\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yunier's guitar skills are no better than the rest of the minstrels' guild and, with a couple of exceptions, his melodies, almost recited at times, don't linger long in the listener's head. Gape and his arranger, Yasel Mu\u00f1oz, know this. That's why on his debut album, <\/span>ode to plagiarism <\/span><\/i>(Egrem, 2019), \u2014with which he won in the youth category singer-songwriters the past Cubadisco<\/a>\u2014 a melodica, a clarinet, a cello, or the flute of Yasel himself court the voice during almost all the recordings, on some tracks like <\/span>leitmotifs <\/span><\/i>and in others playing with the main melody to enliven it. For the same reason, in the homonymous piece there is a hum as a bridge so that, in addition to the lyrics, we would have something to remember at the end of the track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n