The song “Asturias”, the famous composition by Victor Manuel that adapts a poem by Pedro Garfias, is the unofficial anthem of the region. From its first acoustic version in 1976 to the more canonical one, with band and orchestral arrangements in 1983, or to the live one, a decade later, the musician from Mieres has seen how this “false petenera”, a song to the land from the rage and the myth, was getting bigger and bigger. With this sensitive material, five Asturian musicians from different generations and schools (Chus Pedro, Nacho Vegas, Marisa Valle Roso, Leticia Baselgas and Rubén Bada) have performed a new reading of the song.

This version is part of the project that the Asturian producer Paco Loco has been carrying out in his studios in Puerto de Santa María together with the musician Joaquín Pascual (“Surfin Bichos”) to reinterpret Víctor Manuel's repertoire in a rawer key. Under a stripped-down musical base, where just an essential piano and an atmosphere of guitars, led by Rubén Bada (“LR”), provide the wickers, the voices of two couples follow one another. The singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas and Leticia Baselgas (the other half of “LR”) face the first half of the song, moving it away in those first verses from the spectacularity to which “Asturias” accustoms the listener, but reaffirming the emotional character of the song. anthem. With the verse “who will cut down that tree” they pass the baton to Marisa Valle Roso and Chus Pedro, who put their voices, full of tradition and courage, at the service of almost mythical words. The four join in the final choruses, with the percussions of “LR”, and add Victor Manuel himself, who thus leaves the mark of his authorship, with this appearance and the recitation of the first verses, in the introduction initial.

The intergenerational dialogue and between schools, from indie to traditional music, from rock to folk, embraces this new version, which comes with a video clip in which the details of the sessions in Paco Loco's studio are combined with spectacular images of Asturias from drone view. The “green of mountains” and “black of minarets”, the “solid rock”, the “wound” or the “courage” of the poem are transformed into panoramic views of the mountain range, cliffs of the eastern and western coast, carbayeras and fayedos that They enhance the epic of this imperishable “Asturias” rediscovered in a new version.