LA DANZA DE LOS MIRLOS

Virgilio :" Hello everyone. Present yourself"
Ernesto Cadenas: " Ernesto Cadenas Sanguito"
V: "Sanguito, is it the last name ?"
EC: "No, not exactly. It is an alias. In Peru there is a candy called Sanguito, it's very sweet"
V: "Doesn't this alias relate to a turbulent, violent kid ?"
EC:"No, in contrary, it's someone who's very kind, very sweet"
V:" Because in Italy, we call "sanguito" someone who does everything with passion, who is very sanguin, lively"
EC:"Ah, you know, we, the "morenos" we're like this, indeed. A lot of "sangre" (blood)"
V: "First question I would like to ask you is that the genre of music youre playing is the "cumbia psicedelica", as known as, the "chicha"..."
EC:"Not exactly. It's a different variant, it is the cumbia "costena". It started in 1968 with Enrique Hidalgo. Then, by 1970, it was Los Girasoles, Nocha Vales who spread this musical movement."
Roman:" What are the symbols,emblems of the Peruvian Cumbia?"
EC:"It's the guitar, by far. The specific sound of the guitar. No piano, no wind instruments. All that there is is guitar and percussions"
V:" The "guajiro", which is also an emblem, is an important piece and is present  in the different cumbias in general. However, in your music, you use a Peruvian guitar..."
EC:"Si, it's a Ray Perona..."
V:"And how do the Peruvian, Columbian and Chilean differentiate ?"
EC:"Well, the antique cumbia is constituted of a guitar, percussions and vocals. The Chilean is slower, and the columbian is played with an accordion, percussions and wind instruments"

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V:" What do you think about the globalization of the cumbia movement, especially the electro cumbia?"
EC:"I think that it's good, but they should keep the cumbia intact, so that the audience doesn't forget the roots of this music, after all"
V:" Have you listened to the following artists: Quantic, Ondatropica, Meridian Brothers ... ? "
EC:" I heard one of them, but not really , no"
V:"Because, in the last 5/10 years, those artists opened up this musical movement to the world and I think that the Cumbia, and the Latin American music is general, has always been excluded in the spectrum of world music. The world has discovered this music only few years ago, so it's something very new, but as you can see here in Europe, tonight, people dance it as if they knew it foreover..."
EC:"What can I tell you. It's incredible. At my age especially ... We're very tired, but once we're on stage, it's a transformation, and it's the people that transform you into this incredible way. The contact with the crowd is something very important, especially their response to your work."
Roman:"Last question. The cumbia, is a music of the past, the present, or the future?"
EC:"Listen. We were, we are, and we will be Cumbia All Stars. That is everything you have to know, bro"
All: "Thank You very much Sanguito"
EC: "Much thanks to you for the interview bros..."
V:"Enjoy your time, finish your meal calmly (we did the interview in the middle of his dinner colation) like a "mirlo" ,as we say it in Italia (Virgilio is refering to one of their song titles "Danza de los Mirlos")."
EC:" You know, it's something incredible. I just turned 68 today, thanks to God, I'm playing for 42 years now...This is the music life. Thank you guys again for the interview"
All:"Thanks to you"

Interview with Cumbia All Stars

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