Could it be that sometimes the ends justify the means? Only 5 minutes to go. The moderator said that the last question from the press conference would be for the "young journalist ...", and said my name. There is life shook me. I should have lost
the kind of press conferences, so I think that in them all is valid, since the ethics of the profession, if the information is: Comments, questions are not questions, four questions in one and as far as I can not imagine.
term encompasses a broad question through a comment. Silvio Rodriguez smiled. He said he had "fallen a full" with all the seriousness of the world shared his Cuban trova considerations for nearly 20 minutes. In his reflections after that "complete" in March 2007, during the Festival de la Trova "Pepe Sánchez", came out these letters, which I rescued from a website and posted here.
I always clear which came from right here at the roots, although I liked different expressions: the Beatles, the Charles' song, the European troubadours. The music came from my family, happy, heart. What drove me was the ballad singing. I think everything I've done has been from a troubadour and optical variations have been nothing more than the disquisitions that could happen to me, but all around the same stock, to paraphrase José Martí.
Silvio La Trova Tradicional
First of all, the syncopated bass: the freedom of low, sometimes syncopated or advance, or singing counterpoint, which is very characteristic of the traditional trova. The hum is also present in my work since I started writing songs. When working with the Sound Experimentation Group in my first arrangements, one of the things that came to mind was to do background vocals with the instruments to the raw voice. Many said: "This is a troubadour who lacked the second voice and wants to do it." That comes from me trova.
are in the Trova, Trova in are
is very difficult in a festival trova are not, although it is more difficult than in a festival of sounds has trova. That means that the ballad is broader than son: the ballad will be around, because there may be singers who do are. One
grades Cuban troubadours, Miguel Matamoros, was sonero. Many of the verses of our country are outstanding tunes. The are to have that low and be accompanied by other instruments was the magnet to attract people, not only by the melodic and textual, but to make them part of the catharsis of the dance. The ballad is a continent where it is all the music ever invented. Trova
and contemporary influences: threat, disruption, continuity?
What's the threat I've heard of. In our time I was accused of "foreign" of rock. Today, some Young singers are almost like me to Matamoros. I do not know what makes history, inadvertently we become tradition, folklore. And maybe it's good or bad, but it happens. The influences are inevitable, not only in the world of trova. It is a universal experience. Occurs, and increasing the speed of communications.
Fusion is the reality of universal music. Gender-those with real estate, a true profile-always enriched by the merger. How many trends have not gone through the rock? To have wanted to play rock with multiple influences and always rock. Cuban music is another powerful musical aspect has not escaped this phenomenon. We are made of great influences. Cuban music is a melting pot, paraphrasing the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. This mix has not blurred our music, because their origins are eclectic. And do not be afraid to genres like reggaeton, if still alive music that defines us. Provided that the essence of a people are alive, I think it is impossible to destroy the characteristic, the true, native. That is indestructible!
not be afraid to mergers. Now, I think when mergers become more lucid, more profitable may be, for one thing to be influenced by imitating and another to be able to analyze the outsider, to assimilate as part of universal knowledge and pass it through the national sensitivity. Until that is done it is safe. Our generation was useful experience in the Sound Experimentation Group ICAIC. Gave us the mechanisms to analyze any type of music and assimilate constructively.
is very hard to blur the roots of a people that has many influences. One example is Benny Moré. In the boom times of the Jazz Bands, What did Benny?, Was accompanied by a Jazz Band, but began to play tunes.
The Novísima Trova:
now and then What comes after is brand new be the reguetrova. In Santa Clara is a musical explosion troubadour, from plucked strings instruments. Seriously or Trovarroco groups as they leave an imprint, also have created conditions for the wealth or overflow. There are a number of groups of guitars, three lutes that are considering work musically interesting, with a contemporary and appeal to the poetic, to the poetry of music.
Traditional Music for memory
need to open more spaces. It is the responsibility of radio, television and newspapers, spread our culture to create instruments of confrontation, reflection and dissemination, and always looking to new generations who need to speak out and take their space. Although the new generations have come to such a voice forward, there will always be those who play the sounds of our parents and our grandparents, never forget where we came from.
Photo: Leandro Maceo
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