{"id":299053,"date":"2024-03-31T20:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=299053"},"modified":"2024-03-31T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:21:18","slug":"pepe-gavilondo-i-want-the-universe-to-show-me-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/pepe-gavilondo-i-want-the-universe-to-show-me-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Gavilondo: \u201cI want the universe to show me the way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pepe Gavilondo announced his departure from <\/span>S\u00edntesis<\/b><\/a> after appearing as the band\u2019s keyboardist for a decade. It is not the only news. He has also announced the completion of other projects that had tied his body and soul for years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Gavilondo is today an established artist, it was not always like this, when the most contemporary and risky music did not swarm through the island\u2019s sound universe. Creating would become a necessity for him. The same one that is making him escape from the security built for years to close the circle and launch himself into new, unknown waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gavilondo feels privileged. None of those professional and emotional commitments even remotely loomed when he graduated from ISA at the end of 2013 and he didn\u2019t know what to do with his life.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a similar feeling that leads him to make these changes and close a cycle in his career and his life. With Ensemble he has announced his first and last tour of Europe. According to his metaphor, he is the swan that before dying decides to give his last song. He wants to live outside of Cuba. He wants to know, feel, smell, see; experiences, people, places. Elements that contribute to his purest state, that of a composer.<\/span><\/p>\n

What has it been like to say goodbye to S\u00edntesis after ten years?<\/b><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t easy, like all goodbyes after so long. A decade of work, so much family, so many beautiful experiences… There comes a time when I thought it was time for someone else to take the baton.<\/span><\/p>\n

This decision is not isolated, it has to do with how I feel at this moment in my life. I am ending not only with S\u00edntesis, but with other projects and with a lifestyle, or at least with a chapter of my career as a musician that has lasted almost fifteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that for me, it is also time to rest a little and see what I can explore beyond Cuba. Almost my entire career, although I have traveled and had a lot of experience abroad, has been consolidated and taken place in Cuba. S\u00edntesis is a part of that; it hurt a lot to walk away, but I had, for a change, a lot of support from Carlos and Ele and from all my friends in the group. It makes me very happy to see them happy with the new person who stayed (Marlon Bordas), who is a tremendous musician. Life is like that, cycles. They begin, they end; we have to continue, we have to move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n