¡Felices Pascuas! Happy Easter! 🐣

Here are some throwbacks including the making of Verano and gigs from the Verano era!

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I would like to thank all the fantastic musicians who have appeared in this new Diáspora album: Rea Qunta, Daniela Gallini, Tony Rubet, Will Barry, Will McGee, Fernando Depestre, Lilli Elina, Harry Hincapie, Oliver Syrus, Joe Fenning, Tom Harrison. I would also like to thank the talented producers who have worked behind the scenes: Jessica Corcoran (Gubbins Productions / Gravity Shack / Perry Vale Studios), Gavin Beckwith (GB Sound), Dipesh Silwah (Cineview Studios), Jonathan Newton (Newton Design), Claire Ette and Pamela Molina (Red & Black Music / Tiger Music Entertainment). Without you, the album would not have been possible!

Muchas gracias a los músicos fantásticos que han trabajo en el nuevo album de Diáspora: Rea Qunta, Daniela Gallini, Tony Rubet, Will Barry, Will McGee, Fernando Depestre, Lilli Elina, Harry Hincapie, Oliver Syrus, Joe Fenning, Tom Harrison. Muchas gracias también a los productores que han trabajado bajo cuerda: Jessica Corcoran (Gubbins Productions / Gravity Shack / Perry Vale Studios), Gavin Beckwith (GB Sound), Dipesh Silwah (Cineview Studios), Jonathan Newton (Newton Design), Claire Ette and Pamela Molina (Red & Black Music / Tiger Music Entertainment). ¡Sin vosotros, este album no sería posible!

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Like many humans, I identify patterns and discern order from chaos. I set the track order in stone back in 2019. Or rather, it presented itself to me.

Most of the tracks fall into natural pairs.

Tracks 1 Santo Mío + 2 Like A Bird are spirituals. 🕯️🦜

Tracks 3 Mañana + 4 Calle Verano were originally people-watching songs about strolling around town during the daytime. 🚲⚾️

Tracks 5 Come On Down + 6 Summer Luxury are about summer holidays. Come On Down describes a blissful experience / Summer Luxury describes a stressful experience. 🐬🌊

Tracks 7 Castillo En El Aire + 8 Mística are fairytale songs about a woman, a princess revered as a castle. 🏰✈️

Tracks 9 Escalera Al Infierno + 10 Original Rebel are “fiery” 2:3 clave, and describe vivid sensory experiences, with Escalera’s extreme temperature environments, and Original Rebel’s primary colours. 🌋🎭

There is also an internal symmetry.

Track 1 Santo Mío + 12 A Guataca are Santería-inspired. Track 2 Like A Bird + 11 No Vuelvas Nunca Más are female 3:2 clave. Track 3 Mañana + 10 Original Rebel are about mental health.

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A bittersweet blue rebel 🤠
A ranger on a search
To the corners of the Earth
For the cause to which I serve

We all need some sunshine in our lives… 😎☀️🌞

​Yesterday 27th March we released into the wild our new Cuban salsa album “Verano” (“Summer”). 🦜🌴

Birds… trees… summer luxuries… Diáspora’s Verano blends spirituality, summer romances and elements from the natural world. A melting pot of rhythms under the sun from Mozambique to Marcha, Guaguancó and Guiro, from the dense emerald forest and across the turquoise ocean. Let’s migrate to a hidden place somewhere across the seven seas, where wings and feathers are unfurled!

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🎤🎤🎤🎷🎹🎸🥁🪘🪘🎷🎺🎺

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“Guataca” is a spade or shovel, used to toss and turn the earth. Due to its relative ease of manufacture and widespread use in agriculture, the metal implement naturally became a percussion instrument, integrated with the singing of daily life. With its resemblance to the human ear, to play “A Guataca” became slang meaning “play by ear” (“by heart” = from memory / without a script). The finale song embodies the transcendence from the earthbound to the spiritual, the everyday and the sublime. The theme is reincarnation and rebirth, the transition from the old to the new.

I awakened from a dream to receive your message. “Go back to where you were created to discover your future.” Like the blossoming flower, I regress to my roots. I am a poor pilgrim returning to my land. Out of the dense, emerald forest and across the turquoise ocean, I arrive at the coast of my ancestors, and from the old comes a new sensation. When I feel the earth between my toes, I am blessed and saved.

Out of the night, I fly towards the light. I spread my wings, and I flex my claws. If I could reach you by the morning to feel your warm embrace, I would endure the dawning, I would pay whatever price. The stars in the darkness are the footprints of my reality. My drum is the ear of God, it opens the door to Heaven. When I play the rhythms, I let the immortal spirits guide my hands. Listen to my music of skins and sticks.

By ear, I play without a guide. I unload the earth with my song. The beats that form in my heart. Holy Spirit, my religion. By ear, I sing my song. With attack, I dance my passion. The words that give me such reason. The life force, my benediction. 🤍🌽

Where there’s a Will, there’s a Will…

Relationships can be hard, at the best of times. This song deals with the fallout that occurs after a wife has caught her husband cheating with another woman. It’s about empowerment. No longer tied down by a man who once made her blue, she is now free to detach herself. And he must deal with consequences.
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At some level, she recognises the feelings that she still harbours. Although she can no longer see him, she wants him to see how much she is hurting. She is strong enough to acknowledge this, whilst maintaining the degree of separation.

No! He cannot go back to her house. No! He cannot return to her arms. She does not want him in her life anymore. She cannot take it. The song is full of tears, for as long as she cannot trust him, she cannot trust anyone else. 🏚️💔