Yet another compilation of Cuban music? Check out if DJ Lubi Jovanovic’s selections are worth your time
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Posts tagged Havana
Onda Vaga roughly translates as “vagabond stlye” and their sound evokes campfire singalongs on the beach, travellers tales and cherished memories
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.
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
Movimiento Popular is the kind of music you might expect to hear blaring from a crackly car radio in Havana or echoing out of a dusty grocery store in Santiago, its origins however lie in Austin, Texas
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
How fitting that Ibrahim Ferrer’s last release should be devoted to the melting sound of the bolero – a style he was never allowed to sing in his youth on account of his un-macho voice
Sub-titled Afro-Cuban music from the roots, “percussion and voices traditional and experimental” it’s vastly different to some of the other Cuban-inspired music we’ve featured recently.
Musician Johnny Finn takes you behind the crumbling fascades of tourist Havana (La Habana), to reveal a city where the very streets themselves have rhythm (with or without slide guitar)
Just days before the shock news that Sierra Maestra’s charismatic frontman and founder José Antonio Rodríguez has died, Fly spoke to a band bursting with energy and passion
Continue reading Sierra Maestra – The Soul of the Cuban Nation
Don’t be too smug if you think you are the only person outside of Cuba that is hip enough to have a Los Orishas CD spinning in their entertainment system. The group from Havana are exploding onto the international music scene. Named after deities of the African Yoruba religion of Santeria, these gods of music are touching spirits all over the world
Afro-Cuban chants meet the jazz stylings of Mark Lotz on this accomplished and fascinating fusion album.
