Magin Diaz, El Orisha de la Rosa
95-year-old virtuoso singer, preserver of the cimarron legacy, and music of oral tradition. Magin is an anonymous cultist, who from the marginality managed to safeguard a valuable repertoire, enter the bullerenguera record industry of the '80s, influence important commercial artists, and be the longest active singer in Colombia and probably the world. Son and disciple of Felipa García and Domingo Díaz, peasant musicians in the remote Colombian Caribbean, who taught him the musical activity and the agricultural crops.
Project summary
This project collects traditional, avant-garde, national and international aesthetics and puts them in dialogue with Magín Díaz, a giant, anonymous until today, who stained and constructed the Colombian national identity from the dark. Its materialization in 18 songs is a fading of boundaries between musical and cultural slopes that characterize Colombia. In this project, the new and the old (Folk) become one, in the collaboration between Magin and different popular artists like Carlos Vives, Toto la Momposina, and Alé Kumá, among others.
The Transcription
The work we had in our hands was of great importance, that is why we were very concerned about doing this right. We had to follow certain rules to make the transcription, which can be found below. The piece didn't have a proper music sheet so the one we had to create had to be perfect and well-edited.
The Final result
The transcription was finally used in the project and an arrangement of this song was made. The song can be found in the CD Magin Diaz, El Orisha de la Rosa, and it counts with the collaboration of Dizzy Mandjeku & Alé Kumá, with additional verses by Leonardo Gomez Jattin.
This song was nominated as Best Folk Song at the Viña del Mar Festival 2016.
Dirección del proyecto: Daniel Bustos Echeverry para NONAME Producción musical: Manuel García-Orozco & Christian Castagno Masterización: Scott Hull en Masterdisk (Nueva York) Dirección de arte: Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller Gráfico Diseño de empaque: Cactus Taller Gráfico y Claudio Roncoli Producción ejecutiva: Sebastián Monroy Coproducción: Diego Carranza Producción transmedia: Andrés Rodríguez para Novmelab Producción audiovisual: Juan David López para ElHambreCine Textos: Daniel Bustos Echeverry & Manuel García-Orozco