{"id":9805,"date":"2022-03-07T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:33:35","slug":"dando-la-nota-sintesis-de-ancestros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/dando-la-nota-sintesis-de-ancestros\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthesis of Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eternal imagination of the peoples, the one that carves the most lasting dreams of humanity in the sacred wood of its essences and invites man to remain in their lands, substantiated realities that also constitute a stamp of national pride. Music, dances, religion, ethics, customs of ancient cultures were uprooted by force and transplanted not only to propitious latitudes, but also to receptive minds in which fantasy and wonder had sat Citizenship Charter. The union of bodies, the mixture, the symbiosis, the fusion of elements, brought together and preserved a sensitive legacy until very recent days, which unites mestizo America with an umbilical cord through the echo of hundreds of years of ritual drums. Perhaps if the African were given the choice of a unique and collective physical and spiritual voice, this would be that of music and especially that of the drum. Social life unfolds around him: he calls for war, warns about catastrophes, shortens the distance, calls for religious and secular festivities, announces birth and death. But also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or above all<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his great communicator with the unknown: through his rough sounds, the African speaks to his deities and his ancestors about his sorrows and his joys and asks for help to ease the daily struggle for survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5x0chyhQAE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this collection album, S\u00edntesis reappears from the bowels of this magical world with the hoarse and imploring cries of the sounds of nature, to merge with rhythmic moygbas into the mix inherited from their ancestors. Synthesis is the harmony of this union, it is the succession of time, it is the chain of this land, it is the sea in its fury crashing against the coast, it is the lament of its deep songs that implore the infinity of this wisdom. Musicians who have captured the secret African agreement, which becomes the Cuban essence, and exceptional voices that have respectfully penetrated and established themselves in the world of our ancestors, mixing the message of all the ethnic groups that one day fertilized these soils with their blood. In his music S\u00edntesis he expresses both mournful and funeral laments, as well as virile and bellicose or happy and sensual explosions to magically awaken those who, surprised by the enchantment, listen to them. This cast of artistic talent, led through these years by the charms of Carlos and Ele, are messengers of divine clamor in contemporary instruments, who incorporate the sacred bat\u00e1 drums, tracing the arc of harmony between two worlds, divine alliance and sound echo of our existence; making their instruments the abode of the gods who, with tonal variations of the spiritual nature, are linked to the joy of the earth. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ancestros<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has deployed cyclical rhythms with African atabal to claim heavenly favors and invoke the protective powers of men, religious traditions and the riches of the earth, for this reason in the musical cosmogony of S\u00edntesis the hidden seed forces of our culture, with the visionary light of an attainable future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ori ti oo dade owo. Alafia<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ancestors Trilogy \/ Synthesis Group\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special Edition (Unicorn Seal, Abdala Productions, 2003)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design and illustrations: X Alfonso<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consultant: Santiago Pujol<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vol I\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asoy\u00edn<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyeleo\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oy\u00e1<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slime<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opatereo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mereguo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oduddua<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titilay<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interpreters:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Alfonso: solo voice, bass and choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ele Vald\u00e9s: Solo voice in Oy\u00e1, synthesizers and choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luc\u00eda Huergo: Keyboards, saxophones and choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jose Bustillo: guitars and choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank Padilla: drums and percussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest musicians: L\u00e1zaro Ross (lead voice in Titilaye), Joel Driggs (bat\u00e1 drums)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrangements: Carlos Alfonso (1, 3, 5, 7) and Luc\u00eda Huergo (2, 4, 6, 8)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production: Carlos Alfonos, Lucia Huergo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musical direction: Carlos Alfonso<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound Engineer: Jerzy Belc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recorded at Egrem studios, Havana, 1987<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vol II<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ibara Ago (elugu\u00e1)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ogun Mariwo (ogun)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yaku Ma (ochosi)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loku Ay\u00e9 (yew\u00e1)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asojano Mawe (babal\u00fa ay\u00e9)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eru Aye (obatal\u00e1)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ochanla (obatala)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asaramawa (Yemaya)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayabba (hey)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So sa so (elugu\u00e1)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interpreters:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Alfonso: Solo voice on 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ele Vald\u00e9s: Solo voice on 1, 4, 5, 6 and 9; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fidel Garc\u00eda: solo voice on 5, 8 and 11; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esteban Puebla: keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Equis Alfonso: piano and keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Navarrete: guitars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fidel Garcia: percussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ra\u00fal Pineda: drums and percussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest musicians:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luis Conte: Djemb\u00e9 at 6, chekere at 3, congas and shaker at 5 (courtesy of Meinl Percussion)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin Ricard: oodoo at 4, 10; bat\u00e1 in 6; toys percussion on 9 (courtesy LP Percussions, Sabian cymbals)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michito S\u00e1nchez: bat\u00e1 in 1; toys percussion in 4, 9 and 10 (courtesy of Toca Percussion, Zildjian cymbals)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cecilia Noel: choirs on 1, 5 and 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlitos del Puerto: low in 5 (courtesy of ESP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charlie 2Ner: rapper in 6 (courtesy of Ozomatli)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musical direction: Carlos Alfonso<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executive Producer: Bruce Horwitz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recording and mixing: Shep Lonsdale<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recorded at Studio Castle Oaks; Calabasas, Calif.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mixed at Red Zone Studios, Burbank, California. June 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vol III<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ochimin\u00ed (elegu\u00e1 ech\u00fa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aguanileo (ogun)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ochosi (ochosi)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oko \u00d1io (orisha oko)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">obatala (obatala)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goal to Chang\u00f3 (chang\u00f3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wemilere (chango)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iyaoromi (Yemaya)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omayo E (olokun)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oyadde (oya)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iyamil\u00e9 (och\u00fan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orula (orula)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asokere (elugu\u00e1)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interpreters:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Alfonso: Solo voice on 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 13; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ele Vald\u00e9s: Solo voice on 2, 8, 11 and 12; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diana J. Fuentes: lead voice in 3; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madonna Alfonso: solo voice in 4; choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esteban Puebla: keyboards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoandy Hern\u00e1ndez: guitars and choirs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Onei Cumb\u00e1: bat\u00e1 drums, congas, percussion and toys percussion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sergio Cardoso: drums<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ra\u00fal Pineda: drums on 2, 3, 7, 8 and 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fidel Garc\u00eda: percussions on 2, 3, 7, 8 and 11; choirs on 7, 8 and 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Mart\u00ednez: guitars on 2, 3, 7, 8 and 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrangements, orchestrations and programming<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Alfonso: 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 12<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esteban Puebla: 2, 5, 7 and 13<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X Alfonso: 1, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musical direction: Carlos Alfonso<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production: Carlos Alfonso and Ele Vald\u00e9s<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General production: Eduardo Ramos<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recording and mixing engineer: Jerzy Belc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recorded and mastered at Estudios Abdala, May 2003<\/span><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this special edition, which was released in 2003, \u201cS\u00edntesis reappears from the bowels of this magical world with the hoarse and imploring cries of the sounds of nature, to merge with rhythmic moygbas to the mix inherited from their ancestors \u201d. Today we remember those beautiful words of Natalia Bol\u00edvar in the record notes of a collection phonogram.  <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1560,"featured_media":9815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1039,8906],"tags":[7911,1143,8864,1142],"coauthors":[8865],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dando-la-nota","category-variaciones","tag-ancestros","tag-musica-afrocubana","tag-natalia-bolivar","tag-sintesis"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sintesis-Ancestros.jpg?fit=1520%2C695&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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\/1560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}