The two artists come together to interpret an adaptation made by the Colombian of the homonymous poem by Carlos Castro Saavedra, known in his time as “the poet of peace.”
“Peace is not a word or an illusion, it is a reality that must be achieved ,” the singer Mercedes Sosa once said. In the history of Latin America, songs have many times been depositories of those aspirations, of those possibilities.
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That is precisely the meaning of this new song presented together by the Colombian Victoria Sur and the Peruvian Susana Baca : “Camino de la Patria” . In October 2010 they shared the stage in an emotional concert at the Astor Plaza Theater in Bogotá, as part of the Sunday Jazz Festival.
There they met and forged a friendship around their mutual love for Latin American folk lyrics and music. Today they meet again, only now they do it to leave a record of sensitivity and poetry.
The voices of Victoria Sur and Susana Baca come together to interpret an adaptation made by the Colombian of the poem “Camino de la Patria” by Carlos Castro Saavedra , known in his time as “the poet of peace”.
“When peace recovers his dove and the neighbors come to look at it
When love shakes the chains and two wings grow on its back
Only at that time will man be able to say that he has a homeland “
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Victoria says that since the opportunity to record with Susana arose, she thought: “How to make a song at the poetic level of her?”
She read many authors but was captivated by the creation of the Medellín poet. “It is a poem that speaks sweetly to the son, to the mother, to those who have suffered the pain of war. It is a poem that speaks of human virtue and hope ”, he comments.
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For her part, Susana Baca reflects: “When I read the poem I had two beats in my heart: one in the written word, which has its own echo in itself; the other, in the musicality, that demands a voice to sing it ”. “Camino de la Patria” was recorded between Armenia, Bogotá and Lima.
The musicians who accompany these two voices are: Camilo Giraldo (guitar and production), David Heincke (tiple), Julián Ferreira (double bass) and Rafa Lozina (percussion) . Illustration and cover design: Fercho Yela.
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