Many More Reasons to Believe in the Revolution CUBA, March 29, 2010. - Singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez stated there are "many more reasons to believe in the Revolution that in its detractors", while presenting his most recent album, Segunda cita, on Friday at Havana’s Casa de las Américas cultural centre. In this way, the singer-songwriter took sides amid the media campaign that these days insists in demonizing the Cuban Revolution, to the half a century of the existence of which he dedicated the production of a CD that also brings to mind the imprints of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Darwin. Segunda cita (Ojalá Productions) gives continuity somehow to a previous work, Cita con ángeles. That disk included songs written under the influence of the US aggression against Iraq; this one now emphasizes themes related to the national reality. For Silvio, it’s a complex reality, filled with challenges, in a country gripped by the US blockade, "which should end now", harassed for "what we have wanted to be and for the treatment that has been given to what we have wanted to be", but also in the process of "rethinking concepts and institutions." "We’ll be greater and better", he predicted, as we "face without fear" that process. While going into great detail about the CD, the troubadour confessed that the presence of pianist Roberto Julio Carcassés, bassist Feliciano Arango and drummer Oliver Valdés was due to his intention of working with a jazz trio as a base. Present among participants at the release of this new album were Culture Minister and Politburo member Abel Prieto, and the President of Casa de las Américas, Roberto Fernández Retamar. (Cubaminrex – Granma Daily)
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