By José Gandue @Gandour
The future of music on the continent can be beautiful and fun. It can best represent the richness of the mixed heritage, the development of his imagination, and the intensity of his journey across the continent. Listen to the Dominican woman Jarina de Marco It is to contemplate, once again, that, amidst the mediocrity imposed upon us by the top 40 And from what it means to be Latino in a one-dimensional way in the more commercial areas of the music market, productions can emerge that are ready to pleasantly surprise us.
De Marco, daughter of a Brazilian father, resident in New York City, and whom we knew in the past for his particular version of The Deer, popular topic in the hands of Wilfrido Vargas y The Singers, has released his album entitled Spoiled. This six-song EP can be taken as an effective attempt to reinvent what we have always called "Merengue". What De Marco does is take the original speed of this rhythm, invented at the end of the nineteenth century, and then very well known since the sixties, and successfully assimilate it with hip hop and the electronic music of the American ghettos, giving it a more colorful language and one closer to the rebellious attitudes typical of modern times.
What has been achieved in Spoiled It's pure, non-stop intensity for 18 minutes., where the sound bombardment is constant And, although the aim is to agitate the masses, There is always room for experimentation and intelligently breaking pre-existing patterns. It's about managing the everyday bilingualism of Caribbean people in the United States in their own way and harnessing its rhythm to make it part of the beat and the energy present in each track. This compilation of six tracks celebrates, but at the same time, through the party atmosphere, it offers a generational identity response at a time when the world is once again... between the acceptance of integration and migration, and the segregation that the most resentful want to drag us into.
We could place Jarina de Marco, if we want to be very daring, and very needy of labels to generate noise and scandal, within the new generation of artists who are coming to counteract the tedious reign of reggaeton or the answer that some needed in the face of the overwhelming success of Rosalía. Even knowing that these are all phrases journalists use to grab attention and stir up trouble where there's no drama, what's clear is that this Dominican woman, over the last few years, has shown us that her career is on the rise and that her party-oriented creative process is unstoppable, and we're certainly ready to celebrate each new release. Jarina may be spoiled, but we like her., And how!.
