The Mexican singer Lila Downs tomorrow begins his tour of Spain at the festival La Mar de Musicas Cartagena (southeast) with a concert that will pay tribute to the dead “as is tradition: dancing, singing, toasting with the deceased “.
All this from a perspective of the “melancholy and cheerful” in the style of his native Oaxaca time, as told Efe in an interview.
The “Frida Kahlo music” returns to the festival where he played for the first time in Spain, in 2002, when his music had barely even left the borders of their country, and returned as established in 2007 as an artist in the special festival dedicated to Mexico.
Downs stressed the “important, special and beautiful” link that feeling with this appointment with world music, a festival which he defined as “delightful”.
So the Sea of Music has been the place chosen to start his tour in Spain presenting his latest album, “Bullets and chocolate”, dedicated to the Day of the Dead, and considers “the disc more staff “has done in his life.
“I wrote several issues that mystery called death to honor, celebrate it The music on this album celebrates the dead as is the tradition.. They dance, they sing, it is provided with the dead is sung one bolero, a northern, a cumbia, hip hop and ska and as a result we have a danceable, melancholic and joyful record, “he said.
That is the essence, he says, of Mexican traditions associated with death, where he “mourns and celebrates the same time” and verses are written to the deceased “laughing and enjoying.”
The variety of musical styles are a constant in his records, influence of their US and Mexican roots, of which, he says, has taken “the best of each bank” to make music that “is pure mixture “.
In his career, two women have been key: Frida Kahlo and Chavela Vargas. The first, considered “an example” because it was “a woman ahead of her time” that “showed his subconscious, the divinity of the ego”, which “shows the dark side of human beings”.
With it have in common their mixed origins (both mothers were indigenous), and adopted his habit of expressing “with words and clothing.”
On Vargas, he said that “knowing was the greatest gift” of his life, because as she “no other, nor will be,” stressing that it is a woman who “represents a commitment to the only life “and that” words are drunk, words of strength, of philosophy, of Mexico, of the approaching death of the possibility not exist. ”
On this second day of the festival, before Lila Downs takes the stage, the Irish act cantautuor James Vincent McMorrow, which has become a reference in his country with his shrill voice and lyrics full of sadness and melancholy and a pop-folk rhythms fused with electronics.
At dawn, the Arab Castle will become dance to the beat of kuenta i Tambú, a group inspired by the Caribbean Curacao traditional African music and European culture.
The day is completed with a free performance at the Town Hall Square Senegalese Noumoucounda Cissoko winner Vis a Vis program of Casa Africa and offer a performance starring the fusion of traditional sounds of the kora with the most current rates.
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