Dani Caracola & La Banda de Ida y Vuelta
"Cultures Viatgeres"
The "Cultures Viatgeres" (Travelling Cultures) project starts long before
writting these songs, long before playing with cuban, brazilian or colombian
musicians. Even long before I was born, when probably culture wasn't called
culture yet. Then cultures were already travelling. They have always done so.
From Marco Polo or Ibn Batuta to Christopher Columbus, with better
or worse results, cultures have always travelled. Some of them are invading,
others imperialist or colonialist cultures but cultures are like a breath of
fresh air, you cannot kill them or opress them. They always mix are lived
by people from everywhere because they do travel. We do not invent anything
new with this project, but the thing is we do it consciently. We travel through
the cultures with the intention of meeting and share the treasures all the human
beings have been building and growing during many centuries generating
wisdom, beauty and identities to use them as roots to get beyond.
Dani Caracola has been working as a musician for 20 years in rock, blues, pop,
bossa, samba or cuban music bands as a guitarrist, bassist, percussionist, singer,
songwritter or producer. The albums "Ya tu sabe" (2005) of the son cubano
band Echa Paká and "Principis" (2010) of the rumba band Caracola are the
most important precedent of these "Cultures Viatgeres"(2012). The first
because it was the outcome of the solidarity of cuban and catalan
musicians, and the second because some of the songs could have
been part of this new album due to their intercultural content.
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