Carlos Vives and Fito Páez come together in “Babel”, a tribute to Argentine rock

the singer-songwriters Carlos Vives and Fito Páez joined their voices in “Babel”, a song that premiered this Tuesday along with the video in which the Colombian pays homage to Argentine rock.

“Babel”, available on all digital platforms, is a song that talks about how difficult it is for people to understand each other since in these times everyone wants to be right and in the end, the train keeps leaving them because each one goes down a different path.

The theme was composed by Vives and Páez, while the production was carried out by the same artists, supported by the producer Kogiman, headed by Martín Velilla and Andrés Leal.

“When you make a song with this type of theme, there is something of that Argentine rock, of Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Paéz himself, who allowed me to imagine that with tropical music I could invent my own rock,” said Vives, quoted in a statement.

The multiple Grammy award winner added that “Babel” not only pays homage to Argentine rock but “is also an ode to the understanding between countries and culture, to a world that can be made possible thanks to music.”

The music video was directed by Sergio Rodríguez and Carlos Andrés Valencia and was recorded in Bogotá and Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena, where Vives was born 60 years ago.

In the piece you can see and hear classic rock instruments such as the electric guitar and the bass, as well as the bagpipes, the millo flute, among other sounds that Vives offers to enter the world of Cumbiana II.

Vives has had concerts in recent weeks in Aguascalientes (Mexico), Panama, El Salvador and Costa Rica, where thousands of people sang the Colombian’s songs.

Prior to “Babel”, and as a prelude to the release of the album “Cumbiana II”, Vives released his song “Solo”, where he projects the diversity and contradiction of the human being.

On the other hand, Vives previously joined his compatriot Camilo to release the song “Baloncito Viejo”, a single that will be part of the new album.

Fito Páez (1963) is one of the most successful Latin American musicians of all time: his album “El amor tras del amor” (1992), for example, was the best-selling album in the history of Argentine rock.

Vives, meanwhile, took vallenato, one of the most traditional musical genres in the Colombian Caribbean region, to the most diverse stages in the world, making audiences so culturally distant from the Latin dance to the sound of accordion notes. (Source: EFE)