By Ovid Castro Medina |
Bogotá (EFE) .- Colombian singer and composer Andrés Cepeda considers the country a musical factory of various genres and believes that it will continue to be an “important pole” for Spanish compositions for the creativity of young artists.
“I think we will continue to be an important musical pole, at least in our language, for a long time,” he says in an interview with Efe the artist, who has just launched ‘Bogotá’, a study album with which he tributes his hometown to his hometown.
The more than 30 years of artistic life, with high and low, give the artist the authority to talk about everything related to the music and changes he has had, especially the Colombian.
That is why he affirms, without a tone of doubt, that at this time the music of the country is relevant in the world: “I see that people have been turning to see Colombia for many years, to see what happens to Colombian music, because important artists have come out.”
Different musical expressions
For Cepeda, who wanted to be a pianist, urban music has gained land and in Bogotá, as in other parts of the country, there are “new litters of people interested in things that interested me or that still interest me.”
These changes are attributed to the “pendulos” of art and artists, who always seek new trends, other techniques and achieve results that are consolidated over time and a lot of work.
“To not go very far, in Bogotá there are a group of people who are doing very interesting things within pop and rock with a lot of identity,” he emphasizes.
And his comment extends to what new values of music do on the Atlantic coast and in the Pacific, “where music had as a very strong outbreak of identity, and that survives projects that are very interesting.”
As a summary, Cepeda says that “Colombian artists of the newest generations are not only being interested in urban, but there are a group of people who are interested in other aspects of music.”
“I think that will charge an interesting relevance, they will be influential and they will be important,” he adds.
‘Bogotá’, very personal
when talking about his most recent creation, ‘Bogotá’, emphasizes each word and reinforces it with the movement of hands and arms because, according to him, it is an album that not only bears the name of the Colombian capital, but it works as an emotional cartography that runs through its streets, landscapes, sounds and memories.
«’Bogotá’ is a very personal album, it is a very intimate album, because the first thing I decided, before the songs existed, was to put the title, and put the title for me was like opening a door towards a tour of my memory, for my personal file, for my stories that were framed within this geographical space that is the city,” he explains.
In that retarding, Cepeda was at the places that marked him as a person and that is why he walked again through the streets of his adolescence, the neighborhoods of his youth and specific places that nurtured his soul as a composer.
“While the album is a tribute to the city, it is also a trip to within myself, to look for a number of stories, characters and situations that I had jumped to me,” he says.
Andrés Cepeda exploits the sounds of his city
In that rapid memories he went to his personal newspapers, to songs he wrote, photographs and videos because they allowed him to do with music “stories that I had not encouraged me to tell.”
Therefore, in the song that gives name to the album he talks about childhood and the relationship with his mother, who is no longer because he died when he was just a teenager.
“Bogotá has many sounds, but I am in two: that noisy and cosmopolitan city mixed with the sound of nature that surrounds it, its wetlands, mountains and moors,” he says.
One of the characteristics of the album is that each of the 14 songs intertwine and achieve a brotherhood even though they are diverse.
«When you are making an album one knows that you cannot mix pears with apples. It is worth having a variety, but that they all have a conductive thread, that they are all daughters of the same basket, ”concludes Cepeda, who is confident that the public will continue to accompany it on this musical trip that has themes such as ‘Prométeme’, ‘El Café’, ‘Bogotá’, ‘Cariñito’ and ‘Other song’.
