- At the Valparaíso Cultural Park, the director of Puerto Orquesta confirmed the recording on an album with the 10 most sung and remembered songs of recent years.
Twenty musicians from Puerto Orquesta, with more than 10 years of experience, directed by maestro José Godoy, will participate in the arrangement and recording of an album that will include the 10 most listened to Chilean songs in recent times, among them, “Un café para Plato”, with the participation of its author, Fernando Ubiergo. This was confirmed by the director of Puerto Orquesta after the successful presentation of the Buenos Aires singer-songwriter at the Valparaíso Cultural Park – former Prison.
Ubiergo, together with his quintet, performed his best hits and recent creations at the PCdV on the occasion of the public account of Governor Rodrigo Mundaca. On the occasion, along with confirming that he will be a guest on this Puerto Orquesta album that will include the best of Chilean music, he valued the importance of having cultural and artistic spaces to be able to support and promote national musicians.
He also added that “singing in this place, which is a place of memory, is also a clear demonstration of how you can go from the darkest to the brightest; a place of memory where it seems to me that the community has an opportunity to connect with its own history, good or bad, and, in addition, a space where national and regional musicians can congregate. I think Valparaíso may be better off with some indexes down; but not in culture, in culture it is always upwards.”
Regarding the album with the best songs by Chilean singer-songwriters, the director of Puerto Orquesta explained that “Big Band is a format that was born in 1930 and consists of a large orchestra that contains four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones plus the harmonic rhythmic base, drums, bass, guitar, piano, the largest popular orchestra format there is.” He also specified that the album will include iconic songs from our Chilean popular culture such as “I remember you Amanda”, by Víctor Jara; “Thanks to life”, by Violeta Parra, and “Arriba en la cordillera”, by Patricio Manns, among others.
