Carlos Vives releases single from the album “Cumbiana II”, which will be released in May

Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives launches the new single “Solo” from the album “Cumbiana II”, a work that mixes “ancestral sounds with technology and current rhythms” and will be published next May, its publicist reported Tuesday.

In the new single and video, already available on digital platforms, Vives experiments with typical sounds from the Colombian Sierra Nevada and a mix of “happy rhythms that invite you to dance.”

“Solo”, composed by the Colombian and produced by Andrés Leal and Martín Velilla, is a song of heartbreak and sadness due to the story it tells, but “happy” due to the rhythm and sounds that accompany it.

“This song is a tusa, as they call spite in Colombia, but it was also an experiment with bagpipes and the typical sound of the Sierra Nevada (…) a journey through different genres in which our culture is connected”, the two-time Grammy winner and 14-time Latin Grammy winner said in a statement.

The video was shot in Santa Marta with musicians who play typical instruments of the region such as drums and wind.

The series “Pálpito” recently premiered on Netflix, where the artist who brought vallenato, one of the most traditional musical genres of the Colombian Caribbean region, to the most diverse stages and stations in the world makes a musical appearance.