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Colombia will star in the 16th edition of La Mar de Musicas festival organized by the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena, which this year will be held from 9 to 24 July.
Music, art, film and literature will focus on the Latin American country, although the festival also shine figures such as Salif Keita, Melody Gardot, Kronos Quartet & Ensemble Alim Qasimov, Toumani Diabaté, Youssou N 'Dour, Patti Smith, Diego El Cigala, Gotan Project, Macaco, Aterciopelados, Martha Wainwright, Toto La Momposina ...
and a proposed Afro-Cubism, whose world premiere in Cartagena will be in the festival, since it opened on 9 July.
Afro-Cubism is the work that finally brings the music of Cuba and Mali, after the failed attempt by Nick Gold in 1996 to bring together musicians from both countries took the fruit, the legendary Buena Vista Social Club.
Gold has finally carried out his original idea, and after the death of most of those great Cuban musicians, has collected in an album, due out this summer, Eliades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, Kasse Mady Kouyaté and Basekou , among others.
All in Cartagena will open La Mar de Músicas.
The 16 th edition of the festival will revolve mainly around the music of Colombia, which will account for much of the sounds of the Latin American country.
The grande dame of Colombian folklore Toto La Momposina presenting their new album La Bodega, Cholo Valderrama, the most prominent representative of llanera music, The Pipers of San Jacinto, Colombia musical group that preserves the traditional music of bagpipes and drums legacy of mestizaje Indian, African and Spanish, and Adolfo Pacheco and his band of accordion, vallenato author of the most popular Colombian music, will be part of the programming of traditional Colombia.
But the music of Latin American countries have been modernizing and opening up the urban sounds more globalized and as proof of this will Aterciopelados, Bomba Estereo, Chocquibtown and La Mojarra Eléctrica.
The 33 who has taken the traditional salsa training but introducing elements of jazz, folk and funk and singer / songwriter Marta Gómez will also form part of the programming of musical Colombia.
The American continent will be well represented at the festival, beyond Colombia.
In addition to Eliades Ochoa, Cuba, in the superb opening, go through the port city from Brazil's legendary psychedelic Os Mutantes, back to the stage, and the sensational new voice of Céu.
America will have a strong representation with the new jazz diva Melody Gardot, or the national premiere and only concert in Spain at the prestigious Kronos Quartet Alim Qasimov accompanying the best known and venerated singer from Azerbaijan.
The godmother of punk Patti Smith, one of the bands with more pull in the last years Dirty Projectors, and the national premiere of the disk on which Martha Wainwright sings Edith Piaf, and a new global music sensations of Rupa & The April Fishes form part of programming.
Africa.
The three most important figures in African music today will be in La Mar de Músicas.
The golden voice of Africa, that is, Salif Keita returns after his stint in the 2006 edition to present his new album, La Différence, which won the Award this year Victorie of French music in the category of world music.
Another major, if not the largest, Youssou N'Dour comes to present his amazing Dakar-Kingston, a tribute to Bob Marley, reggae and Tyrone Downie, a member of the Wailers.
If Salif Keita and Youssou N'Dour are the main voices of Africa, Toumani Diabaté is one of the most representative musicians, the great master of the kora.
The Malian musician will be joined on a special project by the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, where he will show it did in the Barbican Center in London with the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool.
This project is the first time it is done in Spain and will be La Mar de Músicas the only possible scenario to see it.
Along with Toumani and the Symphony Orchestra also featured musicians include the Symmetric Orchestra, training for years accompanying the Malian musician, and the voice inside deKasse Mady.
Democratic Republic of Congo will Bilili Staff Benda, a group of street musicians, several of them paraplegic due to polio, traveling in a wheelchair tuneadas.
Their music is a seductive blend of classic Congolese rumba and Afro-Cuban orchestra.
Also for the first and only time in Spain will see the exquisite union of the Malian kora Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal in the privileged setting of the Old Cathedral, and the performance of the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo of Cotonou, a of the best kept secrets in Africa, with its peculiar afrofunky music, inspiring James Brown sound in the seventies as voodoo.
In addition, The Very Best, the most luminous and captivating training that can be found in any musical genre today, where they have shaken hands with the oral tradition of Malawi and cosmopolitan electronic pop.
Middle East, namely Syria will Omar Souleyman, a legend in his country, where he and his group have emerged as a staple of folk-pop of Syria, having published over 500 cassettes.
Europe.
Back Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H.
Müller, or whatever it is, Gotan Project.
This group already is synonymous with chic or cool come to present his latest work, Tango 3.0.
Norway will this duo Kings of Convenience seems the result of mixing outgoing Belle & Sebastian with Simon & Garfunkel and be with her new album Declaration of Dependence.
One of the bets of the festival will be the young French Hindi Zahra, with its fabulous mix of ballads, folk, soul and blues of the desert city, which traces its origins Berbers, was born in Morocco, and the influences of the current cultural environment.
Slovenia is one of the groups with the greatest circuit in the world music Brina.
Romania, Mahala Rai Banda, whose flag is the formation of sounds exciting and breathtaking, from the Romanian tradition to premiere nationally in La Mar de Músicas Ghetto Blasters his new job.
The UK come the prestigious engineer and producer Will Holland, based in Cali, Colombia, from the hand of his Quantic & his Combo Barbaro, where electronic music and Caribbean sounds come together, and the legendary The Penguin Cafe, which recovered by the son of one of its founder Simon Jeffes, comes to the festival, in a national release, and this is his only concert in Spain.
Our country will be represented by Macaco, who will handle the closing of the festival, since they came first in 2000 in Brazil Special, Macaco has submitted all of their albums in Cartagena, and would expect to Puerto Present, his most successful album has throughout his career.
If the final Macaco, Muchachito Bombo infer is the beginning, as they will be the opening day showing his new work.
Diego El Cigala becomes an issue more La Mar de Músicas, and will do Tango to present his new work, accompanied by what is considered one of the most important and renowned bandoneon player in the world Néstor Marconi.
Diego El Cigala perform night that the festival dedicated to her brother Festival Cante de las Minas, in its fiftieth anniversary.
Honky Tonk Experience and Sonidero AdemásBaltakalan have visitors dancing until the wee hours.
But The Sea is also Music Film The Sea, The Sea of Art, and La Mar de Letras.
The Sea of Cinema.
Colombian cinema has achieved in recent years gained special recognition and international visibility was not available.
His appearance in first-class festivals such as Cannes last year wind travel Ciro Guerra, Toronto and Berlin, where he won the audience award, the crab roll Oscar Ruiz Navia and Venice blood and rain are Jorge Navas clear indication that something is happening with the cinema.
That something has to do with the fruits that start producing the new film law of 2003.
That is why what is organizing a show that begins in that year and closed in 2009, in five years that surely will be remembered by historians as a key stage in Colombian cinema reference.
The film section scheduled twelve films, three documentaries and short films eight Colombian.
La Mar de Letras meet this year in Cartagena to several of the leading voices of Colombian literature today as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Santiago Gamboa, Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and Piedad Bonnett.
In addition, there will be Literary Award La Mar de Letras, which honors an author, never before been published in Spain, with the release of one of his works in our country by the editorial El Cobre.
La Mar de Arte meet in Cartagena intervention in collective Populardelujo Street, with the placement of images representative of the Colombian popular graphics, a retrospective of the author plus pop across Colombia Nadin Ospina, a solo exhibition of the latest work by the young Barranquilla Marco Mojica, the Prize Fernando Botero, contemporary painting representative of Colombia, with an overriding concern to the figurative.
Luz Angela addition Lizarazo expose his photographic work based on the gates of the houses in Colombia, Fernando Rubio Ahumada Dislocations display your photo project which collects images and testimonies of people living far from their place of origin, Willy Ramos, a Colombian living in Murcia, will with colorful paintings and illusionists.
Moreover, the operator Javier Codesal, Spanish pioneer in video art, made especially for La Mar de Músicas, a foray into the world of organized violence in Colombian society through the stories in video, photography and installation.
The concert tickets can be purchased already announced through the New Theatre box office and in the webwww.lamardemusicas.com Circus and www.ticktackticket.com
Source: Mar de Músicas
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