Hive Music Festival - Week N°34 - Round 1 - "Rara Materia" Poema de Rafael Cadenas. @oswaldotorres
Imagen original editada en la app PixlrHello dear friends of the Hive Music Festival! Once again I am pleased to share some music with you and participate in this festival that brings together the best of Hive musicians. It is a pleasure and an honor to participate and share as always with other users with a great musical talent. I want to take this opportunity to give my sincere thanks to the sponsors and all those who make this space for art and music possible.
A small tribute to the great Rafael Cadenas .
On this occasion I am a little excited because I want to show you a musical adaptation I have made for a poem by the Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas. Maybe some of you don't know it but this poet is one of the most important poets in Latin America, in this same year he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish Language, it is worth mentioning that he is the only Venezuelan to receive this award. I am a lover of poetry but specifically of raw, melancholic and often brutal poetry. Rafael Cadenas is not exactly "pretty" poetry, but very real and forceful poetry. I had already known his most important poem "La Derrota" in high school and I was impressed. Today, I want to make a small tribute to his poem "Rara Materia" by making a musical arrangement that I thought was appropriate. I hope you like it and if you don't like poetry at least you can appreciate it through this song.
The idea of setting poetry to music is not new to me. There is a poetry book that I keep, actually it is an anthology of Venezuelan poetry that a friend gave me many years ago in high school, and there was poetry by Andrés Eloy Blanco, Andrés Mata, Alberto Arbelo Larriva, Miguel Otero Silva and many more. For some reason I always tried to place those verses on a musical base, the result was sometimes mediocre, in other cases it sounded interesting. So, this interest in giving musical life to certain poems was born. And since I recently made with my musical project "Proyecto Bagre" a musical tribute to this poet Rafael Cadenas, I thought it was a good idea to share with you this scoop.
Letra
RARA MATERIA
Rara materia que no cedes razones.
Si tocas el labio del amor es para herirlo,
si llamas al pensamiento es para dejarlo secar.
Cede alguna vez: regresa a tu reino oscuro.
No es justo tu veneno restregando sed
a los sueños, incertidumbre al corazón,
crecimiento a las secretas mutilaciones.
Cede alguna vez: demasiado conoces.
Ciega, pestilente, enancada en la noria
de la ilusión, aléjate del humano olor
que destila nuestra debilidad:
materia, rara materia.
lyrics
Rare matter that does not yield reason.
If you touch the lip of love it is to hurt it,
if you call to thought it is to let it dry.
Give in sometime: return to your dark realm.
It's not fair your poison rubbing thirst
to dreams, uncertainty to the heart,
growth to secret mutilations.
Give in sometime: you know too much.
Blind, pestilent, stuck in the wheel of illusion
of illusion, turn away from the human odor
that exudes our weakness:
matter, rare matter.
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Thank you for listening to my participation! the images and edits are original, the text translated at www.deepl.com, the lyrics of the poem were extracted from https://hjck.com/libros/cinco-poemas-de-rafael-cadenas-rg10 and the content is original for the Hive blockchain. Thank you very much.
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