{"id":5031,"date":"2026-05-22T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:32:32","slug":"x-alfonso-announces-new-album-aire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/x-alfonso-announces-new-album-aire-22052026\/","title":{"rendered":"X Alfonso Announces New Album Aire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-instrumentalist and composer X Alfonso has announced his new album, <strong>Aire<\/strong>, a deeply intimate record that connects past and present through emotion. The album will be released this Friday, May 22, on all digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, the album offers a transgenerational journey in which memory becomes sound and music becomes a living, breathing space. Rooted in the tradition of Cuban song and trova, the project looks to the present through a contemporary lens.<\/p>\n<p>The musician and audiovisual creator revisits works that have shaped generations, reinterpreting them with a modern sensibility. On <strong>Aire<\/strong>, he brings together compositions by Silvio Rodr\u00edguez, Carlos Varela and Santiago Feli\u00fa, weaving them together with his own songs to create a dialogue across eras, styles and artistic visions.<\/p>\n<p>The album includes tracks such as Sue\u00f1o con serpientes, Unicornio, Como los peces, Cambia, B\u00fascame (Sobrevolando un sue\u00f1o) and Para ti, alongside X Alfonso\u2019s own compositions, including Habana Blues, Arenas de soledad and Interrogante.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic for me is like the air I breathe,\u201d X Alfonso says, and on this album each piece becomes a source of emotional oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>The performances evoke an emotional landscape of memories, love, loss, questions and hope that has accompanied several generations.<\/p>\n<p>The press release adds: \u201cFrom the poetry of Silvio Rodr\u00edguez to the urban gaze of Carlos Varela, the intensity of Santiago Feli\u00fa and the contemporary vision of X Alfonso, Aire traces an invisible line where everything coexists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this new record, the artist invites listeners into a renewed experience shaped by memory and emotion: \u201cAn album that is not only heard, but breathed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: F\u00e1brica de Arte Cubano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-instrumentalist and composer X Alfonso has announced his new album, Aire, a deeply intimate record that connects past and present through emotion. The album will be released this Friday, May 22, on all digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1144],"ppma_author":[178],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-x-alfonso"],"authors":[{"term_id":178,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"alicia-soto-smith","display_name":"Alicia Soto Smith","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5033,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions\/5033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}