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ZZK Records Presents Karen y Los Remedios - ‘Silencio’
“Silencio” is the second single from the album of the same name, released this September on ZZK. Written by Jiony and Ana Karen, the song begins with traditional percussion sounds and closes like a nostalgic ballad. It opens with the words, “I choose to live unhurried, not turning back.” It’s a song about letting go of attachments, the freshness of living and protecting your soul, despite social conventions. Karen y Los Remedios is the voice of Ana Karen, production and keyboards by Jiony and guitar arrangements by Guillermo Berbeyer (Z.A.M.P.A.)
It’s a song about contrasts, focused on a side of this album that brings out the sensuality and style of this genre, and at the same time the highly iconic idiosyncrasy that has built up around cumbia throughout Latin America. But there is still experimentation in this process, as the band looks to enrich the sound with the contemporary sounds of all this culture.
It’s these same contrasts that make this song: the keyboards blend with the percussion, making way for the pauses, the sudden absence of sound, so that the rhythm takes on more identity and prominence. Likewise, Karen’s voice and lyrics work here as a parallel, going off on a tangent and slowing down the notes, giving intermittent power to the beat. This is what makes the style of Karen y Los Remedios so unique. The ever sincere sensation is contagious, coming between two apparent opposites: sensuality and dance, the slowness and speed of the notes, making a whole that works harmonically, as we can hear in this song, without letting go of the fuse that keeps that feeling alight. It’s a journey into uncertainty, desire and dance always there to carry us from one end to the other.
Karen has lived in different places in recent years, which led her to realize that she needs to have Latin rhythms close by. And so she started the Karen y Los Remedios project. There is a nostalgia for the streets and places of Mexico, and “Silencio” is part of that longing. The video was shot on one of the islands of Hong Kong, where she currently lives, capturing spontaneous, unique moments to portray the essence of the song. The video was made by Guillermo Berbeyer and Ana Karen, with the assistance of Manlok Lam.
lyrics
Silence - Lyrics in English
Still
Here
No fear
Listen
I choose to live without hurry
not turning around
And being the breeze
That never ceases to be.
Like this.
Silence
Listen
I never wanted to be the thing
everyone wanted and I still am.
And probably will go on being.
Silence
Listen
Murmurs
Of the wind
I don’t know how I look and maybe it’ll worry you
but right inside I'm like this
Fantasy
Very present
Very present
Still
I feel
When I glimpse my soul
Inclined towards the truce
Sinking in the storm
Reborn from within
Maybe I’d choose the depths
Of the most precise place
For the soul that lets me be here.
Silencio - Letras en Español
Quieto
Aquí
Sin miedo
Escucha
Elijo vivir sin prisa
no voltear hacia atrás
Y ser brisa
Que no deja de estar.
Así
Silencio
Escucha
Nunca quise ser eso que
todos querían y sigo siendo.
Y probablemente seguiré.
Silencio
Escucha
Murmullos
Del viento
No sé cómo me veré y tal vez te inquiete
pero más adentro soy así
Fantasía
Muy presente
Muy presente
Quieto
Siento
Cuando me dejo ver el alma
Inclinada hacia la tregua
Hundiéndome en la tempestad
Renaciendo desde adentro
Tal vez elegiría el fondo
Del lugar más preciso
Para el alma que me deja estar aquí.
credits
from Silencio,
released September 8, 2023
from Silencio, releases September 8, 2023
Written by Ana Karen G Barajas and Jonathan García
Recorded, Mixed, and Produced by Jonathan García
Mastered by Matias Parisi Mastering
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
I love this so much. It inspires me in a few ways, one of which is to revisit Richard Brautigan because I wasn’t into him on my first read, but mostly it makes me want to bask in the warm places in my little world and go on early morning walks, not unlike the way I feel when I listen to Dolly Parton. katherines943
