The Santa Fe group Barro presents "Songs like flowers"
"Songs like flowers" is the name of Barro's recent album., the Santa Fe group that addresses a repertoire that reflects the sound of the Argentine coast.
Edited by the Shagrada Medra, the album featured the participation of the renowned Carlos “Negro” Aguirre and Luis Barbiero.
The new plaque summarizes an artistic proposal with a depth and diversity of sound and aesthetics aimed at enhancing the poetic message. The group, integrated by Cintia Amorela Bertolino (voice, percussion), Franco Bongioanni (voice, guitars, piano), Agustina Cortés (saxo, keyboards, percussion, voice) and Gonzalo Díaz (drums, percussion, guitar, keyboard, voice) they manage to mix African-American rhythms with littoral or Andean sounds, subtle counterpoints of chamber music, moments of jazz improvisation and intensity close to rock.
According to the group, the album title marks “songs-offering to nature, To places, to the people who come and those who are no longer. An offering to the life that surrounds us ".
Barro is a group that has a vast journey through regional scenarios, National and international. Among them, the Jazz Festival and Guaraní Der Festival of the city of Santa Fe stand out..
Within that context, in 2017 The group was selected to carry out a provincial tour in the Santafesina Scene “Suena Vivo” program., granted by the Ministry of Innovation and Culture of the Province of Santa Fe.
He has visited the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, Chaco, Between rivers, Buenos Aires and Cordoba. Transcending borders, they have performed in cities of Uruguay and in 2018 they undertook a tour of Chile participating in the international cycle "Desfronteras", organized by Hemiola Músicas and held at the Gabriela Mistral Auditorium (GAM) of the City of Santiago de Chile. As part of this tour, they held educational concerts and workshops at Williches schools in the town of Quellón., Chiloé Island.