Hive Music Festival | Week, 121 round 1 | "Oriente Es Otro Color" by Henry Martínez

There are some songs that make you proud of being from a specific region. That may be the case in some other countries as well. The song for my cover of this week is all about that. I'm talking about the piece Oriente Es Otro Color by Venezuelan Composer, Henry Martínez. I chose this song for my entry of this week since I think I haven't played a piece by this composer for as long as I have been publishing covers in Hive. That sound crazy!

Anyways, this is my entry for this first round of a new cycle of the Hive Music Festival. This song is all about some of the most beautiful things the east of the country has to offer to all who live there and people who come to visit. It talks about the northeast to be exact. There are mentions of the beach and sea and the beautiful skies in the coast.

There's a subtlety in the composition that is always present regardless of the version. And the piece is just that subtle beauty. It is also a Merengue Venezolana a genre of our traditional music that used to be seen as something of low quality until some composer like Henry Martínez, Luis Laguna, among others created a plethora of beautiful pieces to make it truly beautiful. Now, the genre has both the rhythm and the amazing songs to be its own thing.

The arrangement for this piece is in the key of B minor. It is isn't the most flashy version. For that you ought to go to a key like E minor to add more strumming to it. However, I think such a song deserves being treated like the piece of silk it is and have some arpeggios thrown here and there to keep its subtle beauty present.

I have added another version I like a lot. It reunites some titans of Venezuelan Music in an amazing cover of this beautiful song. With no more to say, I hope you enjoy this cover!

• Photos and Video 📹 📷: Redmi Note 13

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• Editing 🎬: Adobe Auditio CS6, Capcut.

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