Lido Pimienta is back with a new music video, this time for their collaboration with Argentinian DJ Chancha Vía Circuito on their scintillating track “Amor en Silencio.” The track first appeared on his album La Estrella and is one of the many recent partnerships that Pimienta has engaged in since the release of her radiant sophomore album Miss Colombia back in 2020. She’s teamed up with a rather stunning list of artists across Latin America — part of a greater effort by the artist to continue tapping into her Afro-Indigenous and Colombian roots.
Kept afloat by the airy and spacious rhythms created by Chancha for “Amor en Silencio,” the ever-mesmerizing vocals of Pimienta appear to levitate weightlessly. But her words are buoyed just as much by her sublime lyricism as it is by the song’s delicate mix of percussion and effervescent beats. Imbued with this effortless etherealness she ruminates over the way we humans fear the passage of time and grip greedily for more of it. Yet in reality, such worries often only keep us from living and enjoying it.
“El tiempo, el tiempo es una ilusión, que cura o duele en tu condición,” she sings on the song’s opening line. Later she gives voice to her epiphany: “Tiene que haber resignación y así pasar la página / Puedo ver la realidad sororidad.” Written on a train in New York the song came to life when Pimienta started to imagine herself back on her Mototaxi speeding through the shifting moments of her life: envisioning all the changing faces and landscapes she has encountered.
Directed by both Pimienta and Andres Gomez Castaño, the music video for “Amor en Silencio” was filmed in the Colombian town of Villanueva, La Guajira. Its creation held a deeply personal significance to the artist: not only did she grow up there but she also associates the place with many of her earliest artistic imaginings and daydreams. The very street they filmed on was where a young Pimienta used to play as a child and where family friends once more opened up their home to her as they had when she was younger. The video offers a beautiful spotlight on Villanueva, rendered tenderly and warmly in the memory Pimienta carries of it. Every shot of the video — as well as every second of the song — is filled with this bittersweet nostalgia for the places left behind in the course of life.
Pimienta said of the song on Instagram: “Comparto este video con mucha emoción, pues este video lo filmamos en el lugar más sagrado para mi, Villanueva, La Guajira. Este pueblo y sus calles de piedra han sido y son constante inspiración para mi. Es el lugar en donde crecí y aprendí a escribir canciones, montada en los palos de mango y montada en un Mototaxi imaginándome películas e historias para contar. Ahora que estoy grande cuento esas historias con mi música y mis videos musicales, los cuales son vehículos para mis mensajes, de toda clase de experiencias vividas. La calle donde filmamos esta escena es la calle donde jugaba de niña, los vecinos nos dejaron tomarnos la calle y grabar esas mismas calles de piedra donde nos sentábamos, la familia de mami mello y papi beto, entre juegos, burlas y conversaciones multigeneracionales. A casi un año de la partida de nuestro padre, papi beto, que bonito hacerle honor a su memoria y la calle de la señora Lola, y su casa que nos acogió a todos. Amor en Silencio, fue escrita en un tren, en Nueva York. En el vagón pasando las estaciones, me imaginaba que iba en mi Mototaxi y pensaba en El Paso del tiempo, en las relaciones que dejamos ir, aveces nuevas, aveces malas, pero siempre pasando la página como canal directo a tener paz.”
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Words: Steven Ward
Watch the music video for “Amor en Silencio” the new single featuring Chancha Vía Circuito from Lido Pimienta below!
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