Venezuelan music is so vast, diverse and passionate in its rhythms and genres that I feel pushed to explore it constantly to offer you “Piano En Canto Venezolano II” today.  The album is the follow up to my third outing entitled “Piano En Canto Venezolano”. The idea is to interpret songs that are representative of every region in the country so that we get to know our repertoire  and create new compositions in the future based on the rhythms, genres and forms of our music.  It is relevant to point out the importanceof the piano/vocals duality in both productions. In other words, a piano that is characterized for its technical, rhythmical and interpretation difficulties and the vocals that accompany that piano.

“Piano En Canto Venezolano II” features songs from Venezuelan regions that were not present in the previous CD. It also presents unreleased compositions by William Sigismondi as well as my own compositions with all the lyrics written by my father Eduardo Dávila. There are themes like the quirpa “Prisco”, a song that I dedicated to the late trumpeter and friend who was curiously my namesake; or the polo margariteño “Amor y Mar”, a story that tells about the birth of Margarita Island; or “Tonada De La Despedida”, written in loving memory of my grandmother Prisca, each of them allowing us to express the sentiment of a final “goodbye”.

Today, I offer this pianistic and vocal work that gives continuity to the wonderful trip I started through our music. So, I hope to keep working on this endless flight of Venezuelan contemporary music in the future.

Prisca Dávila

I am here searching to treasure a language based on mingling venezuelan music, jazz and classical.  I continue the explorations of our diverse variety of rhythms and melodies through my own visions and dreams.  Nowadays, the colors and tempests of the piano are accompanied by the rhythmic and aural flashes of the strings, woodwinds, handclaps, drums and chants.

I hope the wind goes on taking me to far away lands where falling stars will light the path towards the flight of the traditional contemporary venezuelan music.

Prisca Dávila

Prisca´s second musical work ESTOY AQUÍ is a clear statement of maturity.  She continues exploring the wide variety of Venezuelan rhythms without setting aside the  piano solo.  She  now explores different textures by incorporating cajón flamenco, assorted percussion, vocals, venezuelan cuatro and vibes, all of which are played by some of the most in-demand venezuelan musicians like vibraphone player Alberto Vergara, drummer Adolfo Herrera and cuatro player Rafael Brito. Begining with the  track, Frigiando Merengue, she introduces Miguel Hernández (a.k.a. El Pata Negra) whose canto on flamenco style undoubtedly presents what the coming tracks have to offer. Rafael El Pollo Brito, whose talents can be listened to in the Onda Nueva track El Negro José, is among the best cuatro players in the world.  This time around, Prisca clearly steers from one rhythm to another  adding colors and textures without ignoring her piano work.  Once again, her father Eduardo takes the writer role to let her daughter arrange the interpreter homonym track played on piano solo, a gentle gem.  Leyenda adds an unusual mood to this extraordinary CD.  The track shows a very mysterious Prisca whose character comes and go as lingering in a misty place.  The title track introduces Prisca on vocals along with the band and backing vocals by one of Venezuela´s beloved voices Marisela Leal.  Setoconao, an indigenous song, and Pikirillo, a joropo, represent the Venezuelan folkclore in which drummer Adolfo Herrera and minor percussionist Roberto Castillo accompany Prisca in a rhythmic burst making this CD is a must have among genuine music lovers.

Leonardo Bigott

"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 Davila

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