“Bandanato”, a brand new style of music?

The lengthy month of Could was coming to an finish when information as soon as once more shook the world of vallenato music which was very busy and controversial. The principle characters of the brand new earthquake (I desire to name it a schism): the vallenato group referred to as La Banda del 5 and led by the actors Roberto Kammerer, Junior Saavedra, Marco Peñaranda and Marlon Rangel . They formally introduced by way of an announcement that they had been separating themselves from vallenato and creating a brand new style of music they referred to as “Bandanato”.

The information created two antagonistic positions in response. On the one hand, the orthodox and purists identified this proof. Usually, a lot of these musicians and music lovers are likely to reject any affiliation of a lot of these musical kinds and kinds with vallenato: “That is not vallenato” you hear them say. It’s also quite common to listen to them say: “Innovation is ok, however give it one other title and never name it vallenato.” “ So, if La Banda del 5 is the primary musical group that takes the stick and dares to place a brand new label on it as a musical style and that they acknowledge that vallenato isn’t their proposal, that provides pleasure to those that don’t settle for such techniques. it removes the above “concern” that they’ve because the environment of this time and the ideas of the brand new wave teams.

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On the opposite facet, one other line of opinion arises from which it’s thought of that such a declaration and try at schism has an excessive amount of preconceptions, just a little lightness and just a little hopelessness for that group which lives in Valledupar. I agree with this place, which can also be shared by musicians and on the similar time educational musicians akin to Roger Bermúdez, from the College of La Guajira, and Carlos Arturo Russo, from the UPC.

An concept as a result of they wish to be on the middle of an invention that they didn’t create, nonetheless a lot they wish to give it a reputation associated to their group: bandana. This music group hasn’t created something that did not exist earlier than. In case your suggestion will have an effect on and beat the reggaeton, different teams have been doing it for some time. It joins penqueo the bass, a guacharaca that imitates the Paseíto and the entice “quemao” that the Castilla (Rodolfo and Tito) had already launched because the 90’s Daza has to not enter the chandé cycle or the shape generally known as ‘salchipapa’.

Carlos Russo mentions that this proposal isn’t a brand new style, to try this they must separate themselves from the rhythmic a part of vallenato that’s already established. What he’s doing is a consequence, a department of the vallenato inventory like Kaleth, made by Juancho Rois. Likewise, Roger Bermudez, an skilled within the musical evaluation of vallenato, considers it this fashion: “They don’t have any option to separate themselves from vallenato, so they don’t create a brand new style however facet ideas inside vallenato. “

Totally different however not NEW
A bit lightheartedness as a result of kind isn’t the identical as gender. Style constitutes as in music and kind (or rhythm) as is. All of a sudden they’re making adjustments to an current type of non-traditional vallenato: the chandé stroll. Modifications in orchestration have an effect on how however not what. The Binomio de Oro didn’t create a brand new style when he styled the choirs, he launched electrical guitars, keyboards, drums and acceptable factors, melodic extensions, blackouts and even salsero-type distributions. Kaleth did neither by introducing new phrases and a brand new wave rhythm. Though Calixto created the Paseaito and José Velásquez the Pasebol, these unions couldn’t separate themselves from Vallenato both; They’re branches of the vallenato tree as a result of they’re songs created, produced, recorded, carried out by vallenato musicians, with vallenato devices and consumed by the vallenato public.

A brand new style not solely means adjustments in rhythm and consists of particular person components from different genres (components from ranchera, ballade, bolero, and salsa have beforehand arrived in vallenato). It is about creating a brand new ecological part and the Banda del 5 continues with accordion, snare drum, guacharaca and vallenato-like bass. If we take away the beat and go away the tipibajo, solely vallenato is heard in his songs. A brand new style additionally establishes a scene: market, followers, present, authors, kinds of songs, completely different circuits. A vallenato can not “go away” and proceed within the vallenato scene.

Lastly, what can clarify this false begin of household 5 is desperation. I assume they’re already uninterested in a lot criticism from essentialists and purists who disqualify their music; “that is not vallenato.” They noticed a option to do away with that stigma by way of optimistic discrimination: if they are saying we’re not vallenato, no, we’re creating a brand new species.
Junior Saavedra, one of many group’s singers, revealed that point will show them proper. No, guys, do not contrive. There may be nothing new beneath the vallenato sky. Do not take credit score for one thing you do not have, however time will make what many see right now as spurious vallenato, his younger followers will say sooner or later: “that was vallenato” for all heterodoxy finally ends up changing into orthodoxy over time. Braveness, proceed to make your music with out Adamic riot.

Abel Antonio Medina Sierra