Knowing Venezuelan traditional-popular music. Today's song: "That Zuliano"

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It is a pleasure for me to present the song of today in this musical field, "That Zuliano" by the Venezuelan composer Renato Aguirre. It is a Zulian Bagpipe. This song emerged as a way to demonstrate the immense love that Renato has always professed to his older brother Ricardo Aguirre "El Monumental", who was still one of the greatest composers of Bagpipe.

According to Renato, he has the habit of composing in the early hours of the morning for the tranquility, silence and calm that surrounds him at that time of day. Renato says that ... "everything comes to you right away and comes complete, music and lyrics." From this bagpipe first came the melody, then the lyrics and then the chorus. Renato continues, "the image of Ricardo was always present, his memories, his adventures ... were two dawns composing and after the second, already in the morning, under the window appeared a * Four similar to the one used Ricardo, caroreño type, not like the bell we use the Zulia. I asked and nobody could explain where this Four came from, which was different from the other two that were in the house. I left it there and later it turns out that it had disappeared, just as it came. "That Zuliano" is, perhaps, the composition of Renato that more accentuates admiration and love for his brother Ricardo.

That is to say, “That Zuliano" was recorded in 1980, in its original version, by Ricardo Cepeda with Grupo Gaitero "La Universidad de la Gaita. On this occasion, we will hear it in the voice of Ilan Chester with the vocal accompaniment of the Voz Véis Group.

Estelio Padilla

• Venezuelan instrument of four strings that serves to accompany musically the zulianas bagpipes

Song title: That Zuliano
Author: Renato Aguirre
Genre: Bagpipe zuliana
Subgenre: Bagpipe of Furro
Arrangement: Santiago Castillo, Jhonatan Faría and Ilan Chester
Vocal arrangements: Voice See
Cuatro: Ricardo Aguirre González
Pianos: Ilan Chester
Guitars: Pedro Castillo
Bass: Carlos Puchi

That Zulian

Fresh is the dawn
And in the Aurora Maracucha
An immense voice is heard,
It is the bard that in a revelry,
Singing their bagpipes
Delighting the listener. (Bis)

In the mist shines
Maracaibo when he sleeps
And taciturn detaches
The aroma of its arcane
When noble and pleasant emerges
The image of that Zulian.
In the dawn it becomes gigantic.

Wake up and shudder
The city of the sun loved,
When the adored voice
Of that faithful bard he sings
Proud gets up
And to your homeland offers
Your heart in your hand.

On the way to sunset
The sun projects its agony,
The voice goes out one day,
Dies wandering like a goblin,
The city sleeps again
With the bard in his lap.

The light is born in the morning,
Interrupt in me the dream,
The voice I think was a dream,
But there is a pleasant mystery,
He left his four forgotten,
Under my window.

In the mist ...

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