“With a confident pianistic technique far from free ornaments, she endeavors into a highly contagious latin jazz strongly rooted in her native Venezuela…” This is how one of the most recognized newspaper in Spain, El Pais, praises venezuelan pianist Prisca’s latest recording entitled Piano En Canto Venezolano. 

This award-winner offers us 12 songs written by some of the most renowned venezuelan composers such as Aldemaro Romero, Simón Díaz and Otilio Galindez.  The CD features Prisca as singer in each song where a clear interest for various venezuelan rhythms stands out with a pleasant ease that touches almost every region of one of the most musical countries in the world. 

One  can listen to the opening song Lucerito, a soft song composed by Luis Mariano Rivera interpreted here in a heartfelt manner by Prisca on both voice and piano.  San Pedro, an anonymous song often sung to kids, is an evocative piece for venezuelans of all regions.  

Once again, Prisca is cleverly accompanied by some of the most celebrated musicians in today´s venezuelan musical scene.  Among them bassist Roberto Koch, percussionist  Alexander Livinallli and arranger/backing vocals William Sigismondi. 

Piano En Canto Venezolano epitomizes Prisca´s musical concept since she entered the musical arena with the highly acclaimed Piano Jazz Venezolano which includes a repertoire that earned her a prize for Best Merengue Venezolano Interpretation. 

The CD culminates with Joropordiós, a tricky made-up word of the most popular music form the venezuelan plain lands, the joropo,  and the word God, Dios.  The word sounds as saying swear of God and it is a scatted joropo showing the best of both worlds, Jazz and folk venezuelan music.

Leonardo Bigott
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I am delighted to bestow these songs out of the loose fragrances and immensity of the popular and folkloric music of Venezuela entranced in a blend of jazz and academic music.  Both piano and chant wear fresh fragrances along the sounds of the bass and percussion.  I hope each dawn draws the endless flight of the venezuelan contemporary music.

  Prisca