Silvio in Euskal Herria

Ok, so, these are my first hours in Euskal Herria and I am trying to adapt to the jet lag and the difference of seven hours with Mexico. Reading the news I found out that Silvio Rodríguez will be touring Euskal Herria, but not until next month!

Here you have the note appeared at EITb:

Music

Silvio Rodríguez on tour around the Basque Country in September

08/04/2006

The tour of the singer and songwriter will visit the cities of Barakaldo, Pamplona/Iruña and Donostia-San Sebastián. His new album, Érase que era, will be on sale this week.

Cuban singer and songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will perform on September 2 in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre of Barakaldo, Bizkaia. This concert is within his tour around the Spanish State, and, as his recording company has confirmed, he will also visit Pamplona/Iruña on September 4 and Donostia-San Sebastián on September 6 and 7.

The Cuban singer and songwriter will visit many cities of the Spanish State during the months of August and September in a tour that will start in Galicia's A Coruña to finish in Madrid.

On this occasion, Rodríguez has decided to perform on small stages, except for the concerts in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre and Seville's Auditorium, trying to feel closer from the audience.

Niurka González's flute and clarinet, Oliver Valdés' percussion and Tríos Trovarroco (Rachid López, Maikel Elizalde and César Bacaró) will accompany him in his performances, as they did in the concerts he offered a few months ago in the Dominican Republic.

Silvio's new album, Érase que era, will be released this week, and it's the basis of the tour. The new work includes songs composed between 1968 and 1970, the most prolific moment of his musical life, as he says. "I always had the debt of many old songs," he says, and affirms that his new work "is for updating, but acknowledging that "that debt can't be paid off because previous songs always come out."

One of the greatest exponents of the New Cuban Verse, movement that embraces such musicians as Pablo Milanés and Amaury Pérez, he has searched a sound lacking "devices" and "fashions" to make "a document that puts forwards most truthfully and straightforwardly" each song.

Dang, I wish I could stay a couple of more weeks.

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