The International Music Industry Fair, Cubadisco 2024, released this Friday the nominated phonograms in 32 categories grouped into 10 areas, and awarded the Artistic Mastery Award to Camerata Romeu, the agency reported. Latin Press.
The jury made up of musicians, specialists, critics and researchers evaluated the materials and selected the candidates for awards in the sections: heritage, academic, jazz and instrumental music, songwriting and fusion.
They complete the categories of the contest, dedicated in this edition to Colombia and peasant sounds; current dance music, urban, electronic and electroacoustic, audiovisual and specialties.
At the ceremony to present the nominees, which took place at the Meliá Cohíba Hotel in Havana, Jorge Gómez, president of the contest, reiterated that this cultural event will strengthen the ties between the Andean country and the Caribbean island.
Nominees
The album Evocationsby bassist, composer and arranger Yandy Martínez González, got three nominations in the Jazz/instrumental, graphic design and first feature sections.
For its part, the album Premiering my 80sby Guido López Gavilán, captured symphonic and chamber music, instrumental concert, uncontrolled sound design, and musicological notes.
Other nominees in the heritage music section were walk itby Sones de Oriente; Let them talk if they are going to talkby María Victoria Rodríguez; Danzoning. Live from Matanzasby the Failde Orchestra, and Without Bola there is no Paradise. Tribute to Snowballby Michel Herrera.
Within academic music they were chosen Mozartby Ulises Hernández; Beethoven. piano concertosby Frank Fernández and the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba; There’s loveby William Roblejo and Solo Piano, by Jany McPherson.
In the song section, the jury chose Let me dreamby Norberto Leyva; The coffee of the happy, by Vicente Trigo, and Raise your voice, by Nelson Valdés; while current dance music included Van Van Modeby Formell and the Van Van, and Griffo Townby Alexander Abreu and Havana D’Primera.
A musical aircraft carrier
The Cubadisco International Fair will take place from May 11 to 19 and will have a significant Colombian delegation that includes artists from various genres such as trova, urban rhythms, salsa and symphonic music.
More than a thousand rhythms accompany the regions of Colombia, whose music can be divided into five regions: the Pacific Coast, the Atlantic or Caribbean, the Andean, the Eastern Plains and the Amazon region.
A glimpse into the sound universe of the South American country comes across the drum rhythm of cumbia; the sound of the accordion that opens the way to some classic vallenatos; the drumbeat of Colombian salsa and the happy, partying rhythm of the joint.
In this amalgam, the fusion of Caribbean rhythms that translate into Champeta, a genre of social and cultural connotation that originated in the marginal neighborhoods of Cartagena de Indias, stands out strongly.
