PROGRAM

It is nothing new to say that Síntesis is one of the most prominent musical groups of its generation (not only from Cuba but from the World). I remember at the end of the eighties his first album Ancestros which continued the saga with a second and third installments.

Roldán is spoken of as the composer who included it for the first time (around the twenties of the last century) to African percussion instruments in academic music.

We are talking about Síntesis as the first group to fuse Afro-Cuban ritual music with contemporary pop music (jazz, rock, electronic, folk, world music, popular Cuban genres) with a very high quality, playing with sound experimentation, but above all, avoiding clichés.

Síntesis has made an appropriation of the most authentic African music expressed in its Afro-Cuban rites (transculturated). With a very respectful elaboration of Yoruba music (lucumí), of its touches and songs (facts in “language”); they are at the same time transgressors by nature by desacralizing their original ritual function.

Síntesis was captivated by the dramaturgical potential of this music, African first, Afro-Cuban later and from them he has created his own "poetics" connected to contemporary times. Undoubtedly, they are a stylistic paradigm.

In music of African origin, the profane and the sacred are closely linked. A kind of "popular religiosity" is located on the threshold of Cuban daily life. X has selected nine of the main orishas (between warriors and head) as:

Elegguá, Oggún, Oshosi, Babalú Ayé, Changó, Obbatalá, Oyá, Yemayá and Oshún to make up this album (from the original Ancestors).

The phonogram opens with Lázaro Ros, our oldest apkwón, who leaves us in a trance with his initial prayer (in Aggo Moyugbá).

X proposes a musical-cultural imbrication (African songs, symphonic sounds, gospel choirs, batá drums, current compositional language) leading to a postmodern aesthetic.

The result? Insuperable! X boasts a remarkable experiential heritage, authentic to its roots. I feel immeasurably happy. Thank you X for allowing me to be your accomplice in the birth of this gift for Carlitos and Ele; for Sintesis for his legacy; for our black music.