Venezuela is a country of water; it holds one of the world's largest reservoirs of this prime liquid. One of Quinto Aguacte's main actions during its public performances are based on a social compromise towards their fans, calling the attention upon one of Venezuelan’s society most unattended problem: the environmental contamination near the river’s basins; product of public carelessness, as well as industries and the unaware actions on the use and care of fresh water among the dwellers cohabiting near the river..s banks. Therefore, Quinto Aguacate had set during their concerts and social- cultural interchanges a graphic and ideological campaign based on public posters, containing information about this critical problem by using phrases based on local traditional songs as slogans, and documentary photography dealing with cultural facts of the villages and towns where the band does its performances, changing the commercial and yet traditional values of public and commercial adds and posters by an affective-social campaign that reflects the closest reality of the local dwellers, leaving an educative message and sowing consciousness about the consequences of environmental contamination and a graphic memoire of the happy and enliven moments cheered between the public and the full throttle band, Quinto Aguacate.
Venezuela es un país de aguas, poseedor de una de las reservas mas grandes de este liquido primordial en nuestro planeta. Una de las acciones mas comprometidas de la banda Quinto Aguacate es llamar la atención de su público acerca de uno de los problemas sociales mas álgidos del país: La basura y la contaminación ambiental de la cabecera de los ríos, producto de la falta de cuidado público, de la irresponsabilidad de algunas empresas y del desconocimiento de los moradores de los pueblos y ciudades que cohabitan en las orillas de los ríos, acerca del cuidado y uso de las aguas potables. Por lo tanto y partiendo de esta premisa Quinto Aguacate a llevado a cabo durante sus presentaciones he intercambios culturales una campaña afectiva a través de la elaboración y utilización de carteles con contenido social acerca del cuidado y uso de las aguas usando letras del cancionero local tradicional como slogans y fotografía documental de autor, basadas en imágenes locales de actualidad y valores visuales, positivos de las comunidades en cuestión, cambiando el ya tradicional y endemoniado mensaje de las empresas comerciales por uno que refleje una realidad cercana de los habitantes dejando un mensaje y sembrando conciencia sobre las consecuencias de la contaminación ambiental y una memoria gráfica de los momentos felices y enriquecedores vividos entre el público y esta banda a lo full-chola.
Una de las características más relevante de esta banda son sus sorpresivos cambios de ritmos y formas en una misma composición. Las líricas se interpolan en un novedoso género de protesta donde los arquetipos de la sociedad Venezolana son tomados como eje central para una posible investigación social: 20 kilos 500, una oda a los gordos y su condición física natural. Machete caníbal, un canto al Caribe- caníbal liberado durante el despertar del cuerpo de un adolescente contemporáneo. Mil Caras y Cuaima Virgen emulan la misoginia del canto de los salseros. El canto a la tierra es reflejado en piezas como Tema del 28 y Cacao Yuca
Esta ecléctica agrupación esta conformada por músicos de variadas tendencias que dominan y aplican además otras vertientes del saber: fotografía, diseño, antropología e ingenieria de sonido. Sus integrantes son: Edgar Moreno antropólogo, flautista y cantante. Carlos Almaral estudiante de etnomusicología y guitarrista. Alejandro Huizi ingeniero de sonido y bajista. José G. Estraño, audaz motorizado y gran baterista. Aarón Estraño conguero y estudioso de la percusión afro VeneZolana. La producción de imagen está a cargo de la diseñadora y fotógrafa Susana Arwas.
The avocado’s swing
Music has been always a constant jamming between musicians from diverse tendencies, social groups and musical stiles. The members of the full throttle band Quinto Aguacate are always looking forward to find new genres of Caribbean sounds, searching in cities and country sides , avoiding the common place of most folklorists with their mannered musical compositions of cult purity and boring Neo – folklore, made to please the taste of the new worldly “light way of life”, while the music of real expression made in villages and city suburbs pales away waiting for the moment to irrupt in the mass media nets, loaded with a character of constant experimentation and eclectic interpretations, due to the changing dynamics in Venezuelan society, where whisky and rum mixes along in order to dance reguetón, where folklore and rock and roll get mix together with the rhythm of sacred drums; a characteristically symbiosis of an oil rent driven society where things come to stay , a horizon of events surrounding a hollow oil barrel open to multi cultural sounds.
The name of this quintet derives from the avocado tree (aguacate) used all over Venezuela to make big drums out of its hollow dry trunk, an emblematic instrument used by Quinto Aguacate in most of its eclectic compositions, always transcending new frontiers –according to Edgar Moreno lead vocalist and flute player of the band “all kind of music and sound are suitable for transformations and experimentation, therefore we are heirs of the salsa Brava, the heavy metal, the furious atonalism, we are sibling of the drums, tuned up by fire, lovers of the music of Bach and the colombians corraleros del Majagual, defining our music as “LATA LATINA” a mixture of heavy metal and hard core salsa with Venezuelan drum beats. We are also descendents of Mozart, El gran combo from Puerto Rico and everything that can be transformed into music”
The band is made up of musicians from different musical currents; Edgar Moreno photographer, anthropologist and classical flute player is the leading vocalist who sings rock and salsa music in the way santeros and afro-descendant folklore singers expresses themselves; Alex Huizi, a brilliant sound engineer who can quite well hit the electric bass with a Venezuelan deep drum sound; Carlos Almaral, a student of ethnomusicology and virtuoso electric guitar player; José Estraño, a motorcycle expert, a pizza delivery boy during the day and an astonishing drummer and timbal player by nite; and his son, Aaron Estraño, a conga player and back slapper gifted student of Afro-Venezuelan percussion. Most of them come from the slum areas located on steep hills and low middle class neighborhoods, in a constant flux riding along the contradictory symbolism of the urban stairs, (the further up you are the worst you are treated). More steps to go up, climbing with heavy gas bottles on the shoulder, while broken elevators make difficult escaping from the many armed thug gangs, always menacing at the improvised “alcabalas” (check point), located at the bottom of the stairs.
Quinto Aguacate..s compositions are always leading toward a concept of extensive lyrics in the matter of a new protest song style, accompanied by the out of tune Roncadelia Choir, an experience compared to that of the venezuelan variety t.v. show: “El concurso millonario” where a hooded hangman “El señor de la trompeta” (the trumpet man) blows his horn every time a participant sings out of tune, making all the rejected participants suitable fans of Quinto Aguacate since the band asserts that all humans have the natural capability of singing as well as walking or drawing.
The group discovers new ways of music by adopting “bluders” in music as virtues, repeating them over and over until they become “suitable experimental sounds for the ears” They also take into consideration popular slang and the way people talk in the country side as a cult way of expression, using it as an effective tool to mess with and ruffle up the feathers of Venezuelans creating musical pieces like 20 kilos 500, a song dedicated to fat people to accept their natural physical conditions. Another song Machete cannibal, depicts ours anthropophagi inheritance, trapped in the body of a cannibal teenager. A censured human phenomenon present in all societies abroad -Rueda de pescado , Round fish - not exactly the one we eat - but the ambushes performed by the low bike riders to common people on the high ways of Caracas. Songs like Cuaima virgen and mil caras, refers to the way salsero musicians always sing to misogyny. A chant to nature is reflected in Cacao y yuca a tribute to the Venezuelan land and two of the main original crops that make up the cultural Venezuelan culinary, overtaken by chocolate bars, refined flours and emblematic symbols of the fast food culture.
Quinto aguacate performs mainly on the streets and during social communities campaigns in the slums areas of Caracas. Their shows are complemented with graphic campaigns that create consciousness about the pollution of the rivers.. basins and how to deal with the problematic of garbage and debris irresponsible driven by the Venezuelan society.
It is December the 23 , rockets, Ben Laden fire crackers and other kinds of assorted fires mix their banging noises with the distorted sounds of the electric guitars, basses and percussion of Quinto Aguacate and many other bands during the annual meeting party given by the inhabitants of the popular suburb El Placer de Maria in Baruta, Caracas to honor their local band, Quinto Aguacate, celebrating the fact of having its own renowned and experimental music band which belongs to a generation of artists who have put forward all their effort to keep the music alive and up to date, in the main stream of Venezuelan new music.
Saludos mi respeto espero que todo este bien, una vez más paso por aquí compartiendo un pensamiento, abriendo mentes creando conciencia
Cuando todo se torna difícil miras al cielo y le pides a DIOS que te brinde la ayuda que necesitas, te sientes tristes el corazón se te agita y gritas para que todo se acabe, la calma llega cuando vence el miedo es irónico pero después de la lucha, te das cuentas que no puedes tapar el sol con un dedo, que triste quisiera ayudar al mundo pero todo depende de cada quien, de como quiere vivir ganarse el pan y reír luchar por cada respiro, luchar por cada día en este mundo y dar gracias por el placer de estar vivos... Paz
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Saludos respeto a quien se lo merece puño arriba éxitos y bendiciones.
En el alma queda lo que en la vida aprendes, no te sorprende verme en lo que me he convertido, es un suspiro que se lleva mi vida, alegrias perdidas un callejón sin salida, una manera distinta de como vivo la vida, día tras día una guerra sin fuente, la corriente me lleva siempre hacia la muerte, los segundos contados en esta vida prestados, solo dios sabe por cuanto he pasado, la vida no es un misterio y la muerte no es un secreto, un secreto no es callar sino lo que se escondes, el hombre es impulsado por la ignorancia, mientras el miedo es quien responde a la victoria, es un enigma que come y disfruta el dolor ajeno, marcando una vida y metiendo en la llaga el dedo, ego complejo humano que enferma, epidemia, demencia, malicia, ficticia, desisten de la vida y se olvidan de la salida.
LA POBREZA ES UN PROBLEMA?. ES UN TEMA DONDE LA UNION DE PAISES DICE PRESENTE EN CONTRA DE TODO AQUEL MONOPOLIO FORJADO X LOS CUELLOS BLANCOS. LA POBREZA ES UN PROBLEMA QUE AFECTA A LA TODOS LOS PAISES EXISTENTES EN EL MUNDO Y HOY DIA PODRAS DISFRUTAR DE UN TRACK CON UNA GRAN DIVERSIDAD DE ESTILOS DANDO SU PUNTO DE VISTA DE COMO SE VIVE LA POBREZA EN CADA RINCON DEL PLANETA O EN SU DEFECTO EN LOS PAISES DE LOS MC QUE TOMARON PARTICIPACION EN ESTE TEMA.
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