“White Album for Silvio Rodríguez”, an album made up of eleven unreleased songs from the Cuban singer-songwritercreated between the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, was presented this Monday in Havana.
This work collects “dreams and songs that have been created for more than fifty years and are no longer the exclusive property of their author,” according to its producer, Enrique Carballea, during the presentation, referring to the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Carballea said that the album features orchestrations that range from jazz to world music or from American folk to rock psychedelia.
In addition, he announced that the songs are performed, among other singers, by the Chilean Manuel García, who gave voice to the song “Las Nubes” —orchestrated by the Catalan Alfred Artigas— which has been circulating on digital platforms since the end of September.
In the album, licensed by the Bis Music record company, belonging to the local company Artex SA, Cuban artists such as Beatriz Márquez, Roly Berrio, Leonardo García and the recently deceased Eduardo Sosa participateamong others.
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The presentation coincides with the tour that Silvio Rodríguez makes through five Latin American countrieswhich had as its starting point a recent concert on the steps of the University of Havana.
The Latin American journey began at the end of September in Chile, where the troubadour had not performed since 2018.
The tour continued in Argentina and Uruguay, and will upcoming scenarios to Peru and Colombia until early November.
The author of emblematic songs such as “ojala”, “Unicornio” and “La Maza”, brings his most recent album, “Quería saber”, released in mid-2024, to these presentations.
In this, he brings together songs composed between 2015 and 2019 with intimate and social lyrics, embedded with the characteristic stamp of his voice and poetics.
Silvio, one of the founders of the Nueva Trova Cubana, participated in 1968 in the concert that marked the founding of that artistic movement, along with other musicians such as Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola, Martín Rojas, Eduardo Ramos, Vicente Feliú and Pedro Luis Ferrer.
Since then it has been one of the members of that group with the greatest impact outside the borders of Cuba.
La Nueva Trova mixed the study of the popular roots of Cuban music with politicized lyrics.
It is the continuation of previous expressions of traditional trova and songs of the fílin musical genre.
La Nueva Trova became one of the most influential musical movements in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century.
