Armida Records 00-000000
artist: AILEM CARVAJAL composer
AILEM CARVAJAL (1972-)
ISLA
The winner at the international fair CUBADISCO 2013 in the category Classical music.
The majority of the music which can be heard on this CD is related wholly or in part to the artistic thoughts of Ailem Carvajal (La Habana, 1972). They come together to make us reflect on a replete idea which unites the pieces despite their apparent diversity. They offer a wide range of sonorous possibilities with determinate features, which, although are not always the same, nor without appearing in all the pieces in the same way, unite the music through clarity, subtle fantasy and sensual suggestion. Her music offers special importance in the use of rhythmic metre and, with a marked intent, the initial pieces recreate the simplicity of traditional Cuban music with its particular melodies and rhythms. In her creative journey she maintains a constant mode of reference to the aforementioned features, not only in the titles, but also throughout the music itself, albeit with the freedom which fantasy bestows and is thus not limited by predictably rigid preconceptions.
On the present CD, under the title Isla/ Island, the pieces centre around Ailem Carvajal’s evolution within a very concrete geographic, cultural and temporal framework: that of La Habana, where she undertook her studies in piano, composition and orchestral direction and, of Italy where she continued her studies in composition and currently practices professionally. Her training, as well as her experience through the knowledge of the work of other artists do not explain the nature of the music which emerges in these environments but they do make us aware of the flow of interchanging ideas which have shaped the author in her search for constant experiences. This framework, which could be defined as obvious for someone who creates, is the characteristic which most defines the composer from her beginnings, open and vigilant before the paths along which the course of her output takes her.
Comment by Marta Rodríguez Cuervo (Musicologist)
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)
English Translation: Retta Elizabeth Dawson
Full reading of the comments:
https://www.ailemcarvajal.com/english-translation-retta-elizabeth-dawson.html
Production
Rey Rodriguez
www.reyrodriguezproductions.com
Ailem Carvajal
www.ailemcarvajal.com
Recording Engineers
Luis del Toro Modolell at C.A.T.A. STUDIO (SGAE) in Madrid, Spain (2010 – 2011)
Carlos Díaz at PULL PUSH STUDIO in Madrid, Spain (2010- 2011)
Marco Biscarini at MODULAB STUDIO in Bologna, Italy (2012)
Mix & Mastering Editing
Marco Biscarini at MODULAB STUDIO, in Bologna, Italy (2012)
Design
Olli Behrmann, Germany (2012)
Floral painting:
Alexandra Álvarez Carvajal, Cuba (2009)
Songs to poems by:
Tagore, Rabindranat from “Pájaros perdidos” – poems, theatre and stories,
Translation into spanish by Imprenta Nacional de Cuba. La Habana. 1961
“El secreto de la noche”
La noche abre en secreto las flores, y deja al día que se lleve el agradecimiento
“Flor”
– Fruto, ¿estás muy lejos de mí?
– Estoy en tu corazón, Flor
“Vagabundillos”
Vagabundillos del universo, tropel de seres pequeñitos, ¡dejad la huella de vuestros pies en mis palabras!
“Canción del Infinito”
¿Qué es esto que así me aprieta el pecho?
¿Mi alma que quiere salir a lo infinito, o el alma del mundo que quiere entrar en mi corazón?