The Grupo de Experimentación Sonora is memorable, among many other things, for being an extraordinary workshop where there was no musical genre omitted. It was running from country music until Jazz and Bossa Nova, the young members of this milestone group conducted by Leo Brouwer, secured their professional evolution with the larger creativity possible. In this sense, rock was one of the most assisted contemporary music streams approached by GES with a particular success. Good example of this is the paradigmatic Cuba va, work composed by the trilogy Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola and Silvio Rodríguez, where the intense sonority born in a typically rocky environment allows to expose unavoidable truths about the reasons we hold as nation to believe in a better future.

Since these early 70's, the entwining between Rock and Nueva Trova has been suffering permanent renovation, precisely because the poetic distinguishable among troubadours could be useful for who is wrapped around the rock's electronic instruments' stressed expressiveness. This is the case of the popular troubadour Polito Ibañez's trajectory, who gave a concert at Karl Marx Theater t support his set Axilas, discographic work via Producciones Abdala's Unicornio label.

Going far backward to the moment when Recuento CD made its bow, approaching concerts of 1993, we undoubtly are witnessing the mild proposal coming from a remarkable group accompanyng him, Pablo Milanés' group leaded by the keyboardist and arranger Miguel Núñez. Dealing with this Polito's opera prima means to enjoy a singer/writer with absolute domain over an urban poetic with notable lyrism, it's a set holding such classic themes as the innovating Espejismos and the sutily beautiful Evocaciones, popular as Dónde estarás?.

However, with a second CD Para no pensar (2000), Polito definitely assumes rock sonority as a valid path to express himself. The Britain Rock`s fine tune coming from such luminaries as Sting and Peter Gabriel is also present in the set. "Somos números" y "Aromas de jazmín", highlights as toppers cuts due to the balanced handling of rock codes as part of a mature creator with talent enough to avoid the statics` traps and achieve the stylistic diversity of his songs "Buscando un doble" and"Diagnóstico del siglo", without resigning such ballads as the one which gives title to this discographic project.

We are surely agree on the idea that the first song coming to our minds when listening the name of this singer is Doble Juego, charismatic set which text is hardly to imagine without the cadencious rock tune or maybe the Axilas CD`s opening set. This newly promoted CD shows once again the undoubted skills of Polito to recreate, along with the veteran Pucho López, the rock language in its multiple combinations, holding always our citizenship seal. Moving lyrics entwined to sparkling sounds come from "Piercing de amor", "Axilas" and specially "Como mujeres", his current bright spot.
Nevertheless, ''Axilas''`s powerfully-packed track is "Kcho", inspired in the outstanding Cuban painter where Polito is accompained by the inusual mixture of the Bárbara Llanes` soprano voice and Hansel Arocha`s rock guitar.

Taken from Granma