The historical faculty rapper shared with teleSUR his viewpoint on the future of well-known tune, working-category miseries and so-called artist-activists.
The historical school hip-hop fashion of growth bap still has a future in Ecuador, when used with a purpose to subtly boost the beauty of common Ecuadorean track repertoires.
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Juan Pablo Cobo, aka Guanaco MC, offers a heartfelt homage to the Ecuadorean lifestyle of "Rockola" in his theory album "Blasfemia" —the fourth the rapper has produced in his 20-yr career.
"Rockola," which means "jukebox" in Spanish, is widely wide-spread music Ecuadoreans take heed to while drowning their sorrows in alcohol after a protracted day at work.
Guanaco spoke to teleSUR about mournful song that lifts the spirit, a paradox characteristic to Ecuador.
In a old interview you stated "We should rebuild frequent track in Ecuador." What did you imply?
it's time to develop into world, devoid of leaving out native sounds. in addition, "criollismo" (working classification folklorism)—to which i am heading—is fundamental, as a result of occasionally we divide things into categories: the common native folklore versus the global element, but in an urban context they seriously change, they mutate, they develop into a five-headed monster made with the aid of the americans, not via academics—like techno-cumbia.
My album is named "Blasfemia" partly because rappers and standard musicians might understand it as a blasphemy: they can both suppose offended, or enjoy the album.
I suppose here's a very good second to seem returned at your roots and create a greater world sound.
Why do you think Ecuadorean song bears so a good deal melancholia and struggling?
Manu Chao talked concerning the "malegria" (the fine line between bliss and grief), dancing and crying at the equal time, I consider here's a pattern we share with Dominicans, Peruvians, in all Latin the united states, and particularly the Andean people, possibly as a result of the heritage of exploitation here, so partying has to do with sorrow as neatly.
The relocating sound of the "requinto," the common Ecuadorean guitar
Calero (Roberto, a famous Ecuadorean Rockola singer) additionally informed me "Rokola is drinks, love and drugs." Rockola a subworld, a marginal lifestyle: that's why it goes hand in hand with hip-hop, so intimately, they have such a standard language, they address an identical issues.
they're additionally completely sentimental, they specific love and all these primitive feelings all of us share, while contemporary song expresses it in a extra subtle way, with metaphors, however hip-hop is extra direct. So ... in case you dig music that sort of punches you in the face.
Your father changed into a mechanic, you come from the commercial city of Ambato and you are from a modest heritage. tell me greater about your experience when you arrived in Quito?
not coming from the capital offers you an additional point of view—like the Beatles, or many organizations that i admire, partly because you don't take up fashions—like hipsterism, and so forth. Myself, as a rapper, I take heed to broader issues, way past hip-hop, things that different rappers would consider ashamed to take heed to.
I dedicated one tune to my dad as a result of he faced lots of rejection when he changed into younger, as a result of he changed into ahead of his time but did not recognize a way to channel positively this energy like I did with music. He become from the highway and lived things i would in no way think about living, so the tune is a statement: call him "the loopy," however "the crazy" has received a son, who continues to be crazy, however who can do tremendous issues as smartly.
Guanaco's father stars within the album's teaser, performing a shamanic ceremony involving the statue of a llama. ("Guanaco" is a sort of llama that lives in the Andean mountains)
Guanaco's grandmother, a visitor performer on the album
Does Blasphemia intends to ruin category barriers as smartly?
"Blasfemia" is above all the son of someone from the americans, from the working class. it be not a delicate, gentle exploration: it is raw, it goes to the most excessive things, even in an aggressive method, like rockola, or salsa brava, all these genres born in the street. people who appreciated the album very nearly systematically hearken to it while consuming on the street, and shedding a couple of tears — this was the intention of the album.
You described your self past as "half old." Your lyrics say at some factor: "while daddy's deciding to buy every little thing, it be handy to be a bohemian revolt." what's your relation with the different generations?
We trust we are generating alternate, but we are best repeating what the previous generations have done ... My opinion might be too pessimistic as I accept as true with human beings are an endemic, an absurd disease, and the entire effective behaviors we adopt and label as "saving the world," I agree with it best has to do with ego, because in the conclusion we're the cockroaches of the realm.
So how do you stream ahead?
I try to be superb, surely, I do workshops with youngsters within the suburbs, but I don't declare to be making an attempt to store the realm.
A vinyl and a digital version of Guanaco's album "Blasfemia" is accessible here.
Guanaco's facebook, Sounclound, YouTube.
Juan Pablo Cobo aka Guanaco MC | photograph: Guanaco MC
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