Culture and talent in World Music Panama

Culture and talent in World Music Panama 

On February 21, the concert season organized by Oscar Producciones begins. The events will be held in the Athenaeum, City of Knowledge.

"Music is something so pure that no matter what your mood or your way of thinking, it transports you to an oasis, a place where you can feel safe, protected by a divinity," says Hernán Romero, virtuoso international guitarist , composer and producer. The benefits of music do not only apply to the emotional state; is considered among the elements that cause more pleasure in life. It releases dopamine, a hormone linked to happiness. 

Aware of the advantages of listening to good melody, the musical promoter Oscar Producciones presents World Music Panamá, 2019, a series of concerts that aims to raise awareness of renowned musical exponents, who from their cultural roots, work and artistic talent, they contribute to the development and evolution of music. Dúo Finlandia, a fusion of South American rhythms and sounds, folk and electronic music, is in charge of raising the curtain on the musical cycle on February 21. 

The Argentines Mauricio Candussi and Raphael Evangelista also flirt with jazz, playing the accordion, the cello and the keyboard, without forgetting the traditional tangos. DuOud, formed by Smadj and Mehdi Haddab, is the second group that will take the stage. The particularity of this duo is to combat the tradition of the laud, an Arabic instrument that has existed for centuries in the Middle East and in the countries of North Africa, with a very modern electronic treatment. 

Lito Vitale and Juan C. Baglietto will delight the Panamanian public in the third concert of the World Music Panama series. Both musicians are linked to Argentine popular music. They began their stories associated with the Argentine rock movement of the early 70s. They recorded together and were crowned with the album Postales de este lado del mundo.

Lito Vitale is a talented pianist, composer and musical director, while Juan C. Baglietto is a renowned Argentine musician and singer. He devoted himself in the field of rock thanks to his classic album of 1982, Difficult Times.

Making Movies is a group made up of two Panamanian brothers Enrique and Diego Chi, who grew up in Kansas City and brothers Juan Carlos and Andrés Chaurand from Mexico. They fuse rock with Latin genres such as cumbia, psychedelia, Cuban and the spoken word. The musical group is in charge of the fourth concert.

Adrián Iaies, Argentine pianist and composer nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards on three occasions, joins Diana Arias and Facundo Guevara in Adrian Iaies & Colegiales Trío to showcase Argentine popular music without limits in the musical evening.

Abate Berihum, saxophonist, vocalist and composer of Ethiopian-Israeli jazz, will be present at the penultimate concert organized by Oscar Producciones. The prolific artist is one of the most outstanding Ethiopian musicians in Israel.

World Music Panama 2019 will culminate with the presentation of Slixs Sexteto Vocal, a group that revolutionizes the acoustic customs of the a cappella genre.

By La Estrella de Panama. Lito Vitale y Juan C. Baclietto