Buena Fe Presents Its New Morada

February 8, 2023

"The day is 'beery' and 'liquor-filled'," sighed that barber from Bayamo with his gaze toward the sky and hair clipper in hand, close to Israel Rojas's head, who didn't hesitate to ask for paper and pen to write down the phrase.

It was 2017 and Buena Fe was on tour. A few years later, in 2023, the flavorful description has begun to be heard from mouth to mouth. The group with more than two decades of history presented their thirteenth album yesterday, Morada, and there it is, as a memory of happy days, of those we have, at least, Once a year. It turns out that this new proposal is –in the words of Rojas, the group's director– "a kind of TBT," while also "a reverence to music as a common house for all the inhabitants of the planet," a show of respect for Cuban musical heritage, as is the case with Las más viejas.

Friendship, mischief, identity, Cubanness, disloyalty and, above all, love, run through the 14 songs that make up this album, in which the incisive pen of Israel Rojas worked its magic on all the songs. Including Café, whose authorship he shared with Spaniard Andrés Suárez, who has already collaborated with the group on Volar sin ti, from the CD Dial.

Furthermore, this production is the result of the fusion, mainly, between trovadorismo, pop, pop-rock and son, masterfully blended with harmonies typical of our musical landscape. "It resembles its time, these days. It has had to go through the hardships of the pandemic.

It is a record of great sacrifice. Dedicated to Cuba, to home, to what each one can feel as their dwelling," emphasized Yoel Martínez, founder of the band. Listening to this group is a well-known challenge. And Morada confirms it. It is the Buena Fe of always.

The one that doesn't go down the path of commercially successful songs nor lets itself be drowned by the smoke of media hatred of which they have become a constant target. For these activists of art, the new album has been "an exercise in growth and maturity," even though they maintain their characteristic sound and the lyrics continue to lead us to obligatory analysis, to identification with the themes it addresses.

Product of many hands, knowledge, endeavors, Morada, "the most collective album they have made," according to Israel Rojas, is now available on Egrem's digital platforms. And gradually, on their social networks, the group will publish materials related to the album. Likewise, starting March 14, they will begin a national tour to make all of Cuba a musical dwelling.