AVR Sankofa

. HIGHLIGHTSUruguayan music that sheds light on a newpath, guarded by candombe & hip hop.An hypnotic, contemporary and ancestralrecord. To listen from beggining to end,in a trance. Include contributions ofHugo Fattoruso y Ruben Rada.Txt: Martín Buscaglia. DESCRIPTIONSankofa is the debut album by Avr (AlvaroSilva), a work that takes form throughthe research and fusion of Candombe andother Afro rhythms from Río de la Plataregion with Hip Hop and Black AmericanMusic.Avr, the great-grandson of Juan JulioArrascaeta (one of the firstafrodescendant poets to be published inLatin America) writes throughout thealbum, using several "africanisms" andlost words that date back from colonialand slavery times, giving the lyrics aconnection with his great-grandfather'swork, introducing himself as a skilfullMC who travels through past, present andfuture while using several Candomberhythms in his flow.Highlighting several personalities fromthe Afrouruguayan culture and from acrossthe American continent, it also presentsitself as a valuable work for thoseinterested in researching culturalfigures of Black America, especially,Uruguayan.Under the production of Felipe Fuentes,an album knitted with tons of messages,some direct, some to be discovered, cameto life. Sankofa means "to look back, togo forward" which is exactly from thebeggining what this musical journey is,from a very heavy and dense, ancestral,drum presence, to complex harmoniccompositions and arrangments, a work thatcounts with important contributions ofsome of the main afrouruguayan artists.A musical "Guiso" (South American stew)Sankofa is the vision of the world of ayoung black male, his way of feeling andinterpreting the past, present andfuture; and how to transform it in orderto generate something new.