LUCÍA PULIDO (COLOMBIA, MEXIKO)
MEXICAN-COLOMBIAN MUSICAL SPACE-TIME, IN WHICH THE VOICE OF LUCÍA PULIDO FLIES FREELY
COLOMBIA AND MEXICO: TWO NATIONS, ONE ROOT AND THE VOICE OF LUCÍA PULIDO
For the fourth time in Náměšť and again in a different way. However, the magical dimensions of Lucía Pulido's voice remain the same and indescribable. This is an artist who makes you want to put a question mark or two after the word "singer", because it is not common to sing like this, almost as if for real and straight from the soul, and certainly not with such immense imagination, extreme skill and joy. It's probably because she has absorbed perhaps all the traditional Colombian styles, transformed them into her vocal art, brimming with improvisation, and found new uses for them in jazz, experimental and contemporary modern music. "I have no talent for composing, so I consider myself a performer, a constant search for new possibilities for my voice and its colors. The voice is a supremely individual, unique instrument," Lucía Pulido has always said, and it led the Spanish poet Ramón Andrés to believe that with her voice she "can find a name for perhaps everything".
It also turns out that she was innovating ahead of her time from the very beginning, and while she was championing the legendary pioneering Chilean singer Violeta Parra, in the current giant boom of Latino music, where Spanish has literally become the sexy language, young musical revolutionaries refer to Lucía Pulido's artistry and courage with great respect.
n her new project Two Peoples One Root, several of her loves collide: a deep and nostalgic relationship with Colombian folk music, the radical freedom of the New York avant-garde scene where she worked for many years, and a newfound peace in a small town in the south of Mexico, where she came up with the idea of leading a cultural dialogue between the musical traditions of Colombia and Mexico with a group of musicians. Behind the fact that every concert brings unexpected surprises are the members of an international ensemble whose instrumental playfulness, questing nature and vast international experience are unmatched by Lucia Pulido. Together they introduce us to the Mexican-Colombian magical musical time-space of folk music, in which totally unusual singers fly freely.
Photos: Yusuf Sayman, Rodrigo Vazquéz
