Huracán de Fuego
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The group of the Venezuelan Caribbean, Huracán de Fuego, arrived with the only aim to sing and to dance the drum. A drum, or better, drums taken to the area of Maracaibo by black enslaved coming from which today it is Angola, the Congo and Zaire. Where in many of those places the tradition of the drums is lost, a group of young people recovers them. They are chimbangueles and the cumacos, great drums that are touched fallen down, seating the musician on its wood body and using the heel of the foot against the patch in search of the correct refining.
Huracán de Fuego presented, its first compact disc: “Vamos a darle”, with only percussions and voices. Voices with the typical sing of the Caribbean, that count histories you itched like “Pump that pump” or “the concealing”. That they speak to us of the colonization, of the slavery: “Rebellion”, “the black first”. That they bring the news to us of Venezuela or that, even, they investigate in the Old Testament. Songs elaborated with a resource so genuinely black as the one of call and answer.
