Vidala

Resistance, fraternity, equality, solidarity, voluptuousness, unity... Music. Vidala, milonga, chacarera, rasguido, zamba, and so many other rhythms of the heart, so many colors that bring us back to our mother earth, to our sisters and brothers, far beyond our imaginary borders...

 

In the footsteps of its previous and second album "Cantando al sol" , and now of its new creation "Una histoire americana" , the quartet carries the words and the sharp look of the figures - notably feminine - who forged the greatness of the South American song (Violeta Para, Victor Jara, Mercedes Sosa, Atahualpa Yupanqui, ... Chabuca Granda, ...)

Since 2014, the musicians of VIDALA have been burning with a shared passion for the "Nueva Canción" - this child of Andean folklore which, carried by the great wind of protest and the breath of poetry, flourished from the 1960s onwards throughout the South American continent. For the Lyon quartet, it is not only a question of collecting and reinterpreting a repertoire adorned with the countless melodic and rhythmic trappings of the chacarera, zamba, milonga, danza criotla or canción india... It is also, more than ever, a question of continuing to defend a certain art of living and seeing the world. United around the haughty voice of Séverine Soulayres, the band keeps alive the flame of a demanding popular song, which refuses to lay down its arms and affirms that in all things the multitude deserves the best. Vidala takes its name from a form of Argentine folklore that celebrates the great Andean landscapes as well as the inner spaces of their inhabitants. Between the sensitive world and the intimate sphere, collective speech and the solitude of the soul, great battles and dizzying emotions, it is this path without end or routine that these four explorers forge.

 

Richard ROBERT - Underground Opera / Lyon Opera Summer 2021