The Spanish musician and academic Santiago Auserón, also known as “Juan Perro”, returns to Havana to present his latest album, Vagamundo, as part of the events Spain is organising in this city to commemorate the 500th anniversary of its founding.
Accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba in Havana’s Teatro Nacional, Auserón, who defines himself as a wandering troubadour and ‘the first Spanish pupil of son cubano music’, presents his latest work, which explores the “popular song, calling for poetic nuances to help transform it”.
Santiago Auserón recorded his latest album, Vagamundo, at the beginning of 2017. To put it together, he explains that he first explored his earlier years with the group Radio Futura and the urban song scene back then, and subsequently how, as Juan Perro, he drew on American, African and Iberian sounds that seem to want to speak the same language. That is the meaning of this new album: Vagamundo, another way of saying “vagabundo” (rover) in medieval and Golden Age Spain.
Accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba in Havana’s Teatro Nacional, Auserón, who defines himself as a wandering troubadour and ‘the first Spanish pupil of son cubano music’, presents his latest work, which explores the “popular song, calling for poetic nuances to help transform it”.
Santiago Auserón recorded his latest album, Vagamundo, at the beginning of 2017. To put it together, he explains that he first explored his earlier years with the group Radio Futura and the urban song scene back then, and subsequently how, as Juan Perro, he drew on American, African and Iberian sounds that seem to want to speak the same language. That is the meaning of this new album: Vagamundo, another way of saying “vagabundo” (rover) in medieval and Golden Age Spain.
