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The saturation of commercial music drowns independent cultural proposals ...

Criticism. Modesto Lopez, in recent years, independent labels have been marginalized from the public. Photo: Juan Carlos Talavera

By Juan Carlos Talavera
THE NICA Ò CR TODAY
Cultures

We are oversaturated commercial music is taking us gradually toward annihilation del pensamiento, aseveró Modesto López, director de Ediciones Pentagrama, al anunciar la primera Feria del Disco Independiente, que iniciará el 31 de julio, donde diversos sellos independientes se agruparán para ofertar sus títulos.

Para el editor de música clásica y tradicional de México y el extranjero, “ser una editorial independiente es casi como luchar en el mar”, ya que en los últimos años “los sellos independientes han sido marginados del alcance del público; además, muchas tiendas están cerrando y no existe el apoyo de una política cultural coherente, que impulse este tipo de proyectos”.

He noted that mass media have contributed to the lack of independent publishing. "In radio and television there is almost no possibility of spreading the full repertoire of great wealth, except in those cultural and university stations, but for the mass media do not exist," he said.

"The media have other types of interests in shaping people's taste, and are responsible for" forming a taste of annihilation upon us, however, opted for independent publishers will continue to enrich the knowledge of being human, "he said.

noted that Mexico is a country rich in culture, where there is the slightest interest in recovering and preserving the musical tradition established by teachers who remain unknown to our eyes.

MORE SPACES. Organized by the Mexican Association of Producers, Promoters and Distributors Independent Music (Ampprodim) the fair will disseminate high-quality independent productions produced in Mexico and abroad six record companies.

"There is a clear need to produce and distribute material from classical and traditional music, in a market where trading fees seek economic goals outweigh any cultural reasons ", he added.

Pentagram explained that only has a series of 650 titles in its catalog, but commercially only display about 150 titles in the library Gandhi, "so we have a serious problem: we make albums, produce and not we have a way of how to sell it. "

One can produce good or bad music, the problem is how to reach the public, how to make the right product reaches the consumer. "We must create spaces that bring us closer to our audience, and there is no point producing discs so that they remain in the cellar, "he noted.

Pentagram Among the new features offered in the fair are the albums Tavern and other places, Roque Dalton, and Two Voices, Daniel Viglietti and Mario Benedetti.

album also submit anonymous Intimate loving the unknown, Nayeli Nesme, an anthology of songs by Argelia Fragoso, Cuban singer who recorded a duet with old troubadours of the island, and you will have access to the disks Mexican Zarzuela Concert and songs of Spain, in the tenor voice of the writer Carlos Montemayor.

The fair will take place all weekend 2010 and will start next Saturday and Sunday July 31 August 1 in the Cafeteria The Victrola. Coahuila No. 49, Colonia Roma from 10:00 to 19:00. Free admission. Further information phone 5564 3894 5564 3877 and