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Trending Tropics does not have a leading singer and their performances are a set of collaborations of different musicians.
Recorded between Chile, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Spain in Trending Tropics have collaborated with the son of Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Li Saumet, vocalist of the Colombian electropop group Bomba Estéreo;
Pucho, from Vetusta Morla;
Afro-Colombian singer Nidia Góngora, and iLe, the sister of Cabra Martínez who sang for a decade with Calle 13.
But not only each song is unique, but also the 14 covers that illustrate them.
A graphic set designed by Alberto González Arellanos that can be visited within the La Mar de Música festival, framed in La Mar de Arte, at the El Batel Municipal Auditorium until September 30.
This graphic-musical project came about when Eduardo Cabra and Vicente García contacted the photographer Alberto González Arellanos to tell him about his new project, Trending Tropics.
They had discovered their work on Instagram, a series of surreal photographs in which they reflected on society through objects, the 'Pensavientos' as Alberto used to call them.
Eduardo and Vicente's visions fit perfectly with Alberto's as they shared the same perception and critical look in the face of the approach they wanted to give to their new album, a disc that was nourished by the relationship we have with technology.
The concept was powerful and very suggestive, so Alberto got to work to listen to each song to give a different graphic response to each of them.
The result of this work has been an image for each song and another for the album cover.
The premise to create these covers was not to be literal, nor descriptive, but critical and suggestive.
Alberto has created something that we could call object-symbols that represent the concepts he wanted to convey in each case.
The use of objects to convey emotions is something that is in all the work of Alberto González Arellanos.
Through them, it seeks to generate doubts and questions in the viewer.
Some of these objects are directly related to technology and others to society.
Visually all of them are framed in monochromatic spaces in order to focus attention only on them and on the idea that you want to convey with each song.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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