Forget the Buena Vista Social Club. If you want a heart warming tale of musical success despite extreme adversity then buy this CD and listen to the sound of these paraplegic street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo and their rhythm and blues, funk inflected rumba
Posts tagged Cuba
Condensing four decades of Cuban dance hits onto two CDs, Havana S??! proves to be an appropiate showcase for the genius of Los Van Van.
El-B (aka Lewis Beadle) had a couple of tracks featured on Tempa’s Ammunition And Blackdown Present: The Roots Of Dubstep so what a good idea to have a whole CD retrospective that shows there’s more to this guy than just ‘Express’ and ‘Buck & Bury’.
Continue reading El-B – Ammunition & Blackdown Present: The Roots Of El-B
This is the fourth helping from the Supperclub from their ‘nine sins’ menu. Compiled and mixed by Supperclub’s own DJ Alan Luna with artwork by Krijn van Noordwijk, you can guarantee the 2CD set is a something your friends will be jealous of you having it.
Continue reading V/A – Supperclub: Jealousy (Compiled by Alan Luna)
The first recording of the ongoing collaboration between the legendary drummer and the innovative Cuban group is a testament to the success of fusion music.
Continue reading Billy Cobham and Asere – De Cuba y De Panama
At 77, Omara Portuondo is an elder stateswoman of world music. Here she tells Frederick Bernas about her new album, Gracias, and reflects on a long life of innovation, cultural enterprise and funny stories
Madera Limpia is a young Cuban band with a rhythmic groove sound inspired by hip hop and reggae; so how eager do you think Daniel Haaksman was to get the remix out?
Continue reading Madera Limpia – Loco (Daniel Haaksman Remix)
Roberto Fonseca’s most recent album, Zamazu, grooves seamlessly from start to finish as his sound at once nods to his musical roots and speaks in the original voice he set out to find many years ago
Santiago de Cuba is at the heart of the country’s dance music or, as the album subtitle puts it, it is ‘the cradle of son’. Part promo for the restaurant Floridita, part compilation, the album serves up 14 distinctly Cuban cuts
Reggaeton plus son equals reggaetoson or so we are told…
Jose Luis, London’s Latin Mr Big turns his hand to the art of compilation making to deliver three big, bad slabs of music that will have purists gnashing their teeth and everyone else shaking their thing
If like me, you always thought the rumba was a strictly Cuban affair then Café Noir will show you otherwise
In the Buena Vista vein Candido Fabre’s Cubano Soy is a catchy
collection of Cuban salsa.
