BIS Music has demonstrated that it is working with its sights on the most varied tastes, and at the same time on essential music that is beyond current trends.

Three new CD’s by Lucía Huergo, Gerardo Alfonso and the Wena Onda group have reached this publication, as well a list of BIS’ own selection for Cubadisco 2004, always organized for May.

Lucía Huergo is one of the most talented figures on the contemporary Cuban music scene Any reference to her always highlights "her inexhaustible wealth of sound and capacity to embellish and exalt any music that reaches her genius and her hands."

Her CD Lucía contains 14 tracks, two of them sharing vocals and words with well-known singer-songwriters Amaury Pérez ("Entre el tal vez y el quizás" [Between the perhaps and the maybe]), and Liuba María Hevia ("Mi vieja Habana" [My old Havana], moreover with the participation of Miriam Ramos), and a third co-written with a rising artist Yusa ("La rumba loca" [Crazy rumba]). Another number, "Mirando tus ojos" (Looking into your eyes), includes singer Haydée Milanés.

On this CD, which in terms of categories is included in non-jazz fusion), Lucía Huergo is backed by exceptional musicians like Jorge Chícoy on guitar ("Mereguo"), Enrique Plá on pans and guiro ("Mi vieja Habana), Edgar Martínez Ochoa on batá ("Barasuayo") and Ranses Puentes on violin, which says a lot for the appreciation and respect she inspires.

As for Lucía herself, her soprano sax naturally makes itself felt in almost all the compositions ("Eyeleo," "Pasaje al cielo" [Passage to Heaven], "Atmósfera" [Atmosphere]), but also on flute ("Mientras espero" [While I wait]) and piano ("Bajo tu sombra" [Under your shade]).

BIS Music has also recorded the first Wena Onda CD ¿Sabe’ lo que te digo? (Know What I Mean?), with 12 tracks in the group reveals its domination of pop-rock codes, which duly stirred up the dozens of young people present at the Nacional Theater’s Café Cantante for the launch.

The lead single "¡Ay, Juana!" accompanied by a video clip directed by Rudy Mora-Orlando Cruzata, has taken over the top slots on the island’s different hit parades for weeks.

The third production is a solid CD from singer-songwriter Gerardo Alfonso, Las Cosas que yo te cuento (The Things I Tell You), recorded in Ecuador’s Postdata Studio with the participation of Cuban, Ecuadoran, Argentine, Chilean, Colombian and Peruvian musicians, and even one from Armenia.

It has 11 tracks, most of them unrecorded, according to the accompanying notes. "Eleven love songs cultivated between pop and pop rock with an excellent musical fusion that manages to maintain their trova and Cuban roots."

Various numbers were composed in the 90s ("Las cosas que yo te cuento," "Amame lo mas que quieras" [Love me as much as you want]) and others are more recent ("Luces" [Lights], "Todo lo que fuímos" [Everything that we were], and doubtless the best known, "Alguien me hablo de amor" (Somebody spoke to me of love), from 1988.