OLGA CERPA Y MESTISAY
Presenta nuevo disco, `La costa de los cantares´â€‹
Contratación abierta
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dos veces nominada LATIN GRAMMYs / Premio International Cubadisco / 2018 Womex Selection
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Olga Cerpa es la voz femenina más importante de las últimas tres décadas en las Islas Canarias. Nominada a dos Gramy Latinos, ha compartido escenario con artistas de la talla de Omara Portuondo, Joan Manuel Serrat, Julio Pereira o Milladoiro entre otros.
La Costa, en la historia de Canarias, es un espacio geográfico que conexionó históricamente a las Islas con las orillas de los que hoy son varios países africanos.
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Desde Guinea a Cabo Verde, desde Senegal a Mauritania, la pesquería artesanal canaria, vinculada también a un imaginario popular, fue un ejemplo - a través de los siglos - de un contacto real entre el territorio insular y el continente al que geográficamente pertenece. Esta nos parece una afortunada excusa para concebir un repositorio de canciones que visiten parte de ese imaginario.
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Tras cuatro años de la grabación de su último disco, la artista y su banda vuelven a un estudio para grabar `La costa de los cantares´, un disco lleno de colores musicales y con la participación de músicos africanos y latinos acogidos al colador emocional de la isleñidad atlántica que caracteriza a la cantante y su banda.
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OLGA CERPA & MESTISAY
`La costa de los cantares´, new album
Two times LATIN GRAMMYs nominee / International Cubadisco Award / 2018 Womex Selection
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Olga Cerpa is the most important female voice of the last three decades in the Canary Islands. Nominated for two Latin Grammys, she has shared the stage with artists such as Omara Portuondo, Joan Manuel Serrat, Julio Pereira and Milladoiro, among others.
The coast, in the history of the Canary Islands, is a geographical space that historically connected the Islands with the shores of what are now several African countries.
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From Guinea to Cape Verde, from Senegal to Mauritania, the artisanal Canary Islands fishery, also linked to a popular imaginary, was an example — throughout the centuries — of a real contact between the island territory and the continent to which it geographically belongs. This seems to us a fortunate excuse to conceive a repository of songs that visit part of that imaginary.
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After four years since the recording of her last album, the artist and her band return to a studio to record `La costa de los cantares´, an album full of musical colors and featuring the participation of African and Latin musicians welcomed into the emotional sieve of the Atlantic "isleñidad" (island identity) that characterizes the singer and her band.
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Some reviews:
"Times goes fast and it's a strange feeling to think about a 25 year old band that still has new ideas and many verses for the future, waiting for a day when they will be sung by the overwhelming, huge Olga Cerpa's voice"
Fernando Neira / El País
"Olga is accompanied by five excellent musicians, in a mix of atlantic sounds full of elegance and island flavor, with the Canary timple and the Portuguese guitar in an elegant marriage"
Leida Fiallo / Gaceta Latina de New York
"She is a Canary performer revealed to us as a great singer, managing songs from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean with mastery and vocal passion"
J. Rincón / Miami Herald
"Her voice is poignant, within it many years of knowledge, her own and that of other people before her. She looks like a light source, a life spring"
F. Da Silva / Diario de Lisboa
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Band:
Olga Cerpa - Lead voice
Manolo González - Spanish guitar
Hirahi Afonso - Guitar, Timple
Totó Noriega - Percussion
Jaime del Pino - Bass guitar
Juan Carlos León - Saxo
Joni Olivares - Percussion
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Some of the last concerts:
Lincoln Center (NYC)
Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago)
Sala Zitarrosa (Montevideo - Uruguay)
Teatro Caras y Caretas (Buenos Aires - Argentina)
Timitar Festival (Agadir - Morocco)
Rainforest World Music Festival (Kuching - Malaysia)
SunFest (London - Canada)
Gasteig HP8 (München - Germany)