Silvia Moreno Sevilla
Seville
Updated Wednesday, February 28, 2024-13:36
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The Andalusia Day gala, which is celebrated this Wednesday, 28F, at the Maestranza theater in Seville has started with the strength of the Nuestra
Señora del Rosario Coronada
Band of Cornets and Drums from Cádiz and its most acclaimed piece,
Eternidad
, composed by
Sergio Larrinaga
.
This song has become famous throughout the world and has even been played at NBA basketball games in the United States, after it became the soundtrack of the Andalusian Tourism campaign
Andalusian Crush
.
But how did the music of an Easter
band sneak
into an advertising campaign that accumulates millions of views around the world?
You have to look for the "futurist folklore" group based in Seville, Califato 3/4, to understand the diffusion of
Eternidad
beyond the brotherhood circuits.
In 2019, Califato 3/4 released
Crîtto de la nabahâ
, a song that uses the piece
Eternidad
by the Rosario de Cádiz band as a base, mixed with
reggaeton rhythms and electronics
.
The result reminds some nostalgic people of the mixes that were made in
break beat
at the end of the 90s.
And that Caliphate 3/4 issue is what one of the
publicists
in charge of the
Andalusian Crush
campaign knew about .
«We received the call from him because we have already worked with him, he loves what we do and says that it is an inspiration for him.
He wanted to take the
Crîtto de la nabahâ
», recalls
Manuel Chaparro
, voice of Caliphate 3/4.
But when he explained to them what he wanted to do for the Andalusian tourism campaign, the Caliphate 3/4 referred him to the Banda del Rosario of Cádiz and its composer Sergio Larrinaga, who died a few years ago.
"It was an era of
social justice
," explains Chaparro, who is aware that the group has lost the opportunity to get involved in a campaign and all the international tourism fairs in which they could have participated.
But they take it for granted.
It was Sergio Larrinaga himself who contacted the Caliphate 3/4 when he heard their
Crîtto de la nabahâ
.
And from then on, he became inseparable from the band.
His
way of composing
the Holy Week pieces was totally different from what had been heard before.
«The cadence, the way he composes is not the archetype of Holy Week.
It's a different freshness," explains
Esteban Espada
, the bass of Califato 3/4.
For Chaparro, the composer of
Eternidad
and countless other pieces for the Banda del Rosario of Cádiz, he is
the "Ennio Morricone of Holy Week"
, in reference to the famous Italian composer and conductor who signed the soundtrack of more of five hundred films and television series.
Caliphate 3/4's relationship with Larrinaga has been so close that, after his death, at one of the concerts they gave in Cádiz, the band stopped the music to give a bouquet of flowers to the
composer's mother
.
It was just before performing the
Crîtto de la nabahâ
.
"It was healing for her and also for us," they recall.
For this reason, now, Caliphate 3/4 sees with pride that
Eternidad
has become a kind of
new Andalusian anthem
with which the 28F gala even begins, the day that commemorates the date of the referendum of February 28, 1980 for which he acceded to full autonomy.