DATA OF INTEREST
GUEST:
DAVID D OMNI
HOST:
TANIA BRUGUERA
Synopsis:
The protagonist of one of the most interesting phenomena of Cuban underground culture, the project Omni Zona Franca, David talks about his beginnings as an artivist in Alamar, the sleeper city they brought to life with festivals such as Poesía sin Fin.
Bio:
David Escalona Carrillo
(Havana, 1984)
David Escalona Carrillo is a musician and painter. His artistic formation is in the city of Alamar as a part of the interdisciplinary project Omni-Zona Franca. A self-taught artist, at 16 he left the Cuban educational system and began teaching himself outside of the political indoctrination practiced in Cuban schools.
His music is a mix of art rock, new age, experimental music and world music, and shows a strong influence of urban genres such as Hip Hop, Reggae and electronic music.
His first albums, La rueda (2009), Tokan Tokao (2010), A la guachornein a la pipol nao (2011), El Árbol (2011) and Free Hop (2012), represent an experimental period heavily influenced by Hip Hop. Following his 2013 album 360º, he enters a more conceptual period, distancing himself from the labels of specific musical genres. His subsequent albums are: Iguales (2014), Recopilando Historias (2015), Suaesito (2015), Albañil A (2016), Ánima (2016) and Fantasma Cívico (2017).
