Serenamente, the second posthumous album by Vicente Feliú, founder of the Nueva Trova movement in Cuba, produced by Silvio Rodríguez and recorded in 2006 at Estudios Ojala, will be released on digital music platforms this November 11th.
A press release published by Estudios Ojalá, which the Cuban News Agency accessed, indicates that the album’s release coincides with the 78th anniversary of the author of “Créeme” and also with the celebration of International Songwriters’ Day. On October 31st, the single “Al filo de las cuatro y media” was released as a preview, and “Si te conozco,” both featured on the album, will be released on the 7th.
This second release includes works conceived during his artistic maturity and features prominent vocalists and instrumentalists. The album was produced by Ana Lourdes Martínez, recorded, mixed, and mastered by engineer Olimpia Calderón Arias, designed by César David Morales, and features a cover photo by Silvio himself.
Aurora Feliú, daughter of the founder of the Ibero-American project Canto de Todos, wrote the introductory remarks for the album and expresses, with clarity, her mixed feelings about this posthumous record. The previous one was Heréticas, featuring songs written by Vicente in the 1970s.
“My father was a kind of angel brought down to earth, an incarnate spiritual guide, and that’s how I’ve felt, especially when looking back on his life’s work. Ever since he told me he was giving me the three little stars that make up Orion’s Belt, where I inevitably placed him forever. That Orion that I now recognize as a portal between worlds.
“In this album, I reaffirm his mission to shape, to educate, to accompany with love, in that vein with which Apuntes para una canción al Pueblo ends: ‘we all have heaven, we are all God.’” I admire the level of awareness in that phrase, written when he was so young, and it confirms my certainty that he was always a great soul, an old and wise soul that shone through his deep, blue eyes…”
Next November 11th, when Vicente Feliú Miranda would have turned 78, Serenamente will flood the virtual world with his warrior-like, coherent, and committed music, a tribute to his life and his ever-relevant work.
IMAGE CREDIT: Bárbara Vasallo | Photo courtesy of Estudios Ojala
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
