2024-02-16 15:10:52
– The Palais des Nations hosts an extraordinary concert
On Thursday, the audience of the Antigel festival went to the Human Rights Hall to listen to Colombian singer Lido Pimienta.
Published today at 4:10 p.m.
Colombian singer Lido Pimienta in concert Thursday February 15 in the Human Rights Hall at the Palais des Nations.
FRANK MENTHA
Between a scale model of a Kuwaiti dhow and a 2nd century statue of Nemesis offered by Syria, there is, in the Palais des Nations, the Human Rights Hall. When you enter here, all eyes are on the immense fresco by the Spaniard Miquel Barceló, an explosion of colors covering the entire ceiling of the hemicycle.
Thursday evening, the public met here to listen to Lido Pimienta. The Colombian musician based in Toronto belongs to the rising figures of an international female scene, inspired by Björk as much as traditional cultures, African-American and indigenous in her case. The young woman demonstrates with talent and vehemence her Wayuu roots, the guajiros of colonial nomenclature.
Social Justice Day
Marbled slabs, faded walls and glass roof overlooking the lake. It feels like being in Montreux, on a festival evening. The architecture, the patina, the smell too, take us back to another, distant era, that of thematic conferences, of numb Museums. As we don’t come here often, we take everything. Including polite speeches from United Nations officials, mixed with festival-goers. Everyone, as for a plenary session, took their places at the desks.
There will still be an electronic set, dance, by a collective of Ghanaian women, MJ, The Masked, Iveth Stunner. We will remember how difficult it is to obtain a simple visa to travel. Like Lido Pimienta, they arrived in Antigel through Shap Shap, a Geneva association promoting artists from the Global South. On February 20, we commemorate “social justice”. Finally, Lido Pimienta can begin.
Lido Pimienta at the Palais des Nations. On the ceiling, the fresco by Miquel Barceló.
FRANK MENTHA
“Everything you need to know regarding me? I have three children, I am proud to be black and indigenous. Everything I do is for my people.” And then: “I feel completely naked. Don’t you want to come closer?” Then, the audience rose to join the makeshift stage set up where the speakers usually stand. And it sounded good. And Lido Pimienta sang in her clear, crisp voice. “Soy la dueña de mi libertad”: my freedom belongs to me.
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Since the floor was not that of a nightclub, the crowd retreated. Lido Pimienta continued the show. Melodies sent high and strong, fascinating singing transforming a head voice into a new instrument, before descending low into the bass, in an impressive hoarse timbre. Powerfully structured percussion accompanies it, drums, bells. Samples too, electronics, soft little pianos, undulations of synths.
Highly contrasted, the aesthetic remains close to this contemporary vein which, from the venerable Totó La Momposina, great voice of Caribbean traditions born in 1940, to the Spanish Rosalía, from vernacular song to mainstream pop, circulates around the world brilliant blends that produce some of the most creative music
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