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ORIGEN
By Roberto Carlos Luján
Wherever a Latin-American persoon goes there’s hit, enjoy…and music in general, this is
what many of our continental fellows confirm and specially the fellow country ones, who
have inmigrated to Europe to make their path in the difficult musical job.
Francisco Peña is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer and leader who is remembered
for his experience in salsa music with his orchestra “La Fuga” in Cali in 1992. After almost
fifteen years, we rediscovered him with an independent production, this time included in the
development of his work in the world of the music of the Colombian Pacific.“Origen”is the titled of Francisco Peña’s first record, who lives in Holland, with his group“FP Barrio Nuevo” launched to the record market in 2006. This Colombian musician has
gotten many of his colleagues from different countries and specially Latin American people
spread in the European continent to get together, the same who in that endless dispersion
continue arriving in search of the best personal well-being whith expects an increasing social
movement every sense.
The record “Origen”contains 12 tracks in which are warmed traditiona pieces and previously
unknown role-plays, the colloquial lyrics that are welcomed in the pacific coast that expresses
the inhabitants cultural customs, their lifestyle, what they think, their daily, their happy
attitude against adversity which through the history has become in a way to resist hardness
and abandon of the govemment to this Colombian region.
The piece “Lissette” is pointed out for its instrumental nature and fot the presence of the steelpan
played by Roland Lyon, intrument coming from the lover Antilleans that produces a
gentle sound, something similar to the Aafrican xilophone. We must mention separately the
pieces “A Los Reyes Del Folklor”and “La Herencia”. In the first, the masters who founded
the path through many young have been working the exponential musical work. And the
second refer to the salvery process suffered by the African native people and their forced
inmigration movement to the new world with everything it implies, it means, their culture
with which they traveled and with the subsequent inheritance left.
Francisco Peña offers an updating in terms of music in this record, because in the native
instruments used in this kind of music are included instruments like the keyboard ones, the
drums, the electric bass and electric guitar which strengthens the sound enrichment of this
ancient music, at the same time giving a major international projection, As many more
miscellaneous percussion instruments, which benefit the character even more ethnic of this
Colombian music conceived in the old world.
As a present for whom get this record, Francisco Peña has included “La Porteñita”, bonus
track, which he record in Cali several yeras ago in which also participate veteran
percussionists like Wilson Viveros and Freddie Colorado, with them was the percssionist
And singer Carlos Alberto Cajares, an old friend of the neighborhood “El Poblado” in Cali. |
