Rodrigo Cuevas is considered one of the “rare gems” of the era in the national cultural scene. music Spanish. At his company, Sony Music Spain, they say it “stopped being one of the best kept secrets” of the art scene a long time ago to become an open secret since its inception. folkloric militancy, oppositional, subversive, and always experimental..
Hence as Rodrigo Cuevas any “super sell”Now you can even report your news with a countdown. The countdown, which has been announced for days on social networks and expires at 00:00 today, April 14.
“D-day and H-hour” to make it happenRodrigo Cuevas’ new album Manual de pilgrimage Porto Ricowill be completed in a few months. Now it only appears with “patina” from this new guide first single, ‘More animals’. Directed by Ricardo Villoria, it “comes with its relevant and processed video that shows you how to play with desire at all levels. There is mud, violence, dance, pressure …” they explain from the company. This is how images are added to Cuevas’ new stanzas. As the saying goes: “Come dance and party until the ground breaks; if they break brown shoes, that’s what shoemakers are for.”
Three years after the release of the album ‘Manual de cortejo’, which was critically and publicly acclaimed and made him an icon of contemporary folklore and won the Revelation Artist award at the 2020 MIN Awards, the 2022 Rainbow Award from the Ministry of Equality and the 2021 RNE Critical Eye Award for Modern Music Award-winning Asturian artist presents ‘Mas animal’ as the first example of what he has prepared for this. new creative phase where he “floods from courtship”.
And if the first “tour” was achieved with the help of producer Raül Refree, he now wants to do so with the help of the legendary Visitante Eduardo Cabra from ‘Calle 13’, a benchmark of Puerto Rican music. “One of the musicians who best understands the concept of global folklore,” the company continues. For Cuevas, this collaboration that took place a year ago was “a dream” that he had one day dreamed of and was easier to fulfill than he thought.
Alongside Cabra, iLe, one of the biggest references in popular music on the island, is collaborating on the album and especially the new single. He “was responsible for showing Asturian. Different musical aspects of Puerto Rican indigenous folklore“, and adds to the song “as a tribute to the creative collaboration that emerged between Rodrigo Cuevas and himself during his journey across the island during the recording of the song.”
In ‘Más Animal’ there is a fusion between muiñeira and ajechao and aims to be a musical and visual hymn – this part corresponds to the work of Villoria -“sensuality, vitality and strengthIt was the icing on the cake that Rodrigo Cuevas’ new tour ‘La Romería’ was missing, which will kick off at Festival(a)phónica on 30 June 2023 and have closed dates until 2024.