2023-08-04 20:05:25
As a child, she learned to play the saxophone and the piano in a conservatory. As a teenager he frequented clandestine jazz sessions and was part of a reggae group until he decided to jump into the hip-hop pool to sing punchy rhymes with which he offers his particular vision of the world around him, attacking masculinity without nuance. With rap as the backbone, his proposal sung in Valencian and Spanish moves elegantly through trap, salsa, reggaeton, merengue, electronica or bachata. Jazzwoman, artistic alter ego of the Valencian Carmen Aguado (Aldaia, 1996)will dare this Saturday to merge his proposal with the music of the couplet, in a free show that can be seen from 10 p.m. in Plaça Josep Sarquella de Palamós and that will close the 7th edition of the Amb So de Cobla festival.
“Any genre is always compatible with another if you do it with love” assures the singer and composer, that tonight she will be accompanied on stage by Jordi Casas (tible), Gerard Montsech (tenor), Alba Careta (trumpet) and Alba Pujals (trombone). “At first I was very afraid, because I’ve always really liked experimenting and mixing topics that have nothing to do with each other. Ever since I rap, I’ve always been told that I’m desecrating genres,” says Aguado, who considers that what she actually does is “taking music that I’ve heard since I was very young, like traditional singing, and give it a more hip-hop touch».
“I’ve always liked to make the goat in this sense and experiment to see what comes out. In the end it is good to give this modern touch to popular music so that neither the tradition nor the message of what our grandmothers sang to us is lost» adds the artist, who acknowledges that, although he had never fully delved into the sardanistic world, he knew this genre “because Valencians and Catalans are cousins”.
The Dharma Electric Company will open the 7th Amb So de Cobla de Palamós today
The success of Coti x Coti de The Tyets has made a very young audience dance sardanas anywhere in Catalonia, showing that the music that appeals to the older generations is perfectly compatible with the most modern sounds. “Bringing traditional music closer to the most modern, we bring together young people and the elderly in the same space to enjoy the music we grew up with” points out the Valencianthat this Saturday, in a concert co-produced by the Amb So de Cobla festival and the Mediterranean Fair in Manresa, will offer a repertoire based on his last two albums: Maleficent (2020) i Atlantis (2022), both published by the label Propaganda pel Fet!.
JazzWoman with So de Cobla and an “exciting” challenge for the MC, winner with Atlantis of the 2023 Enderrock Award by popular vote for the best urban music album. “I had never done anything like this with a band, because in the end what I do has little to do with the most classical concert format. I liked mixing hip-hop with band instruments» explains the artist who adds that he has as reference artists “with a very powerful message because it is what empowers and liberates us”. Among these references, he quotes from Pep “Botifarra” to Amy Winehouse.
“You should never be silent”
Asked about the current situation in the Valencian Country, with the rise of the extreme right to power and its sexist discourseAguado says that one should never remain silent in the face of injustice. “We must always denounce all the injustices we sufferboth women and the LGBTI movement, because in the end we are all part of this movement» says a singer who expresses herself, especially through her rhymes, without hairs on her tongue to denounce endemic masculinity.
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