35 years giving the folk (Jose Tomás Sousa talks about the new album and more) The director and composer of Acetre, José Tomás de Sousa, has made some Speaking to The Chronicle of Badajoz in which he speaks about the new album (giving some small tracks) in addition to taking stock of the 35 years of training.
Time passes for all, including folk music band Acetre, age 35. The Olivenza celebrate the anniversary with a commemorative concert tour will begin on January 21 at the Gran Teatro de Cáceres and the 22nd in the López de Ayala de Badajoz.
In these concerts, the audience will find "a cocktail with some of the past, much of this and a little of the future," said José Tomás Sousa, director and composer of this training, which has been renewed the addition of singer and violinist Ana Jimenez Clara Lorenzo after the departure of vocalist Rachel Sandes and Diana Vara.
Acetre take this tour to present some songs from his new album, the eighth, which will debut next spring and for which there is a title not yet decided. "It will be a surprise, is in line with developments Acetre but we have created a more evolved within the folk, is one more step," he said.
In those early years of Acetre, created by a group of teenagers who got together to perform songs of Victor Jara and Pablo Guerrero and folk music, they remain "the spirit, enthusiasm and a taste for things well done "as well as its effort to preserve and disseminate the traditional music of Extremadura.
To Sousa, the trajectory of the group was" parallel to the history of Extremadura We have grown and evolved together. "After several phases and changes in training - for which they have happened in this time more than 50 musicians - has become one of the most emblematic of folk veterans and Extremadura and outside the region.
The musical creation and renewal, based on the traditional roots have been The keys to this bicultural group, which performs same perantones, gadabout, holiday tunes or dawns Extremadura, which Verdegaia, Portuguese fado or corridiños.
Disc goose chase Song , 1999, marked the beginning of a transition in which Acetre opted for new creations and styles resulting in a "magic music" according to its director. Their work together on seven albums, several soundtracks and numerous concerts and awards.
Currently a group is "very happy, living a stage of maturity of young people who inject joy, not looking back, only forward. We want to do new things."
These nine musicians continue rescuing ancient songs of the border. Sousa acknowledged that the folk is still much to do, "there are great folklorists who deserve a tribute sound like Bonifacio Gil García Matos, Angela Capdevielle. There are also areas that deserve more attention, as Hurdes.
