On the one hand, Caamaño&Ameixeiras is the duo from Galicia formed by the singers and instrumentalists Sabela Caamaño, who plays the chromatic accordion, and Antía Ameixeiras, responsible for the violin and voice. Together, Caamaño&Ameixeiras have offered hundreds of concerts recovering the Galician dance. On the other hand, Rodrigo Cuevas is the well-known renewer of the Asturian tradition who has become an absolute reference for national pop.
In a new collaboration, Caamaño&Ameixeiras and Rodrigo Cuevas present a personal vision of the pasodoble in ‘Catro Cousas’, an amazing production that we have the honor of premiering at JENESAISPOP along with its video clip.
In ‘Catro Cousas’, Caamaño&Ameixeiras and Rodrigo Cuevas recover an old march that has traveled from generation to generation, a pasodoble “learned from the enormous Florencio, the blind man from Vilares, who in turn learned it from La Pastorina thanks to the radio.” The song, recorded live, uses the lively and martial rhythm typical of the classic pasodoble associated with the bullfighting environment, and contextualizes it in the present, vindicating self-love and “self-care” with the sound of castanets. In ‘Catro Cousas’, furthermore, the accordion and violin of Caamaño & Ameixeiras join this military rhythm to cover it with a warm accompaniment.
In ‘Catro Cousas’, the official note explains, «Caamaño&Ameixeiras and Rodrigo Cuevas collect the military and bullfighting language that characterizes this genre and then appropriate it, reinterpret it and dress it with a biting but elegant irony. In the same way, it is also a love song, but in the opposite way. Of love inward, towards herself. About female empowerment and self-care. To love ourselves first. “To know how to say ‘four things’ when necessary.”
Thus, ‘Catro Cosas’ knows how to set limits from the beginning:
«Catro cousas hai no mundo
that stir or sense,
to love and not be loved
wanting and not being loved.
If you want to love me, love,
no, treat yourself ben,
o world go ben long,
“There is no need for someone who wants to be good.”
Also unmissable is the video clip for ‘Catro Cousas’, filmed in the Parque do Pasatempo de Betanzos, in A Coruña. Place considered BIC (Asset of Cultural Interest), currently in the process of restoration. Jorge Rojas directs the fantastic visual.
The location in the Pasatiempo Park is no coincidence: “Pasatempo is a magical place, and we were clear that it was the perfect setting for what we wanted to tell and convey in the video clip. Furthermore, it was special for Sabela personally to revisit this space that she had visited so much in her childhood, now from a different perspective and with a different perspective. “It was also very powerful to temporarily reoccupy a place like this, with a decay that we find completely magnetic.”
The three artists will perform the song for the first time at the Rodrigo Cuevas concert on December 19/20 at the Sala Capitol in Santiago de Compostela, with all tickets sold.
