Being from Florida, summertime is my favorite time. I love it when it gets so hot and muggy that even the mosquitoes can't fly and your only refuge is a piece of watermelon, an ice-cold beverage and the music in front of you. My three favorite outdoor venues in the Triangle allow picnics and sell all of the best local brews. Read on for summer shows to look out for at The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Sarah P. Duke Gardens, and American Tobacco. North Carolina Museum of Art: [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Diplo, Lil Silva, Buena Vista Social Club Song: Ibrahim Ferrer - Ay Candela (Henry Krinkle Refix) [download here ] What's so [...]
These folks alerted me to Azad Right's solid hip-hop tune "Spiderwebs," which gets points for sampling Coldplay and making it work. (This song's sample is from "Trouble.") For the most part, I steer clear of such creations because of a generally blah impression of everything that band has released after the excellent "Yellow." It got me thinking, though - Coldplay did manage to reach transcendence again, only this time it was at the hands of Cuban-born Buena Vista Social Club members Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo and their Latin take on the otherwise overplayed "Clocks." It's awesome . [...]
I went to Cuba with my mum when I was around 7, twas a great experience. One thing I loved most about Havana and the rest of the country was the music, and it's perfect for a mellow morning like today's. Buena Vista Social Club is also the musical alternative to Resolve. Don't read all [...]
It's Friday, at long last. Not because I've been working so hard (I'm currently jobless) but because shit is happening this weekend and I've been bored. As I've not been working I've been able to catch up on all sorts of music, new and old, and I thought I'd share some of it with you. It's a varied mix, from Swedish alt-rock to some West Coast lo fi to one of my favourite Latin songs. Anyway, peruse, listen, browse and do any number of other things with the music. Finally, be sure to buy anything you like. To [...]
Manuel Galbán died as a result of cardiac arrest at the age of 80 at his home in Havana, Cuba on July 7, 2011. Galbán is best known in the U.S. for his guitar work on various Buena Vista Social Club projects. But he is perhaps better known in his native country for his time as guitarist and musical director of Los Zafiros , one of the most popular Cuban groups of all time. He was the last of two surviving members of the popular vocal group that fused American styled, doo-wop, close harmony singing with a [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Big Hassle Manuel Galbán, a Cuban guitarist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club , died Thursday, July 7. According to his publicist, the 80-year-old passed away in Havana from a heart attack. After getting his start as a young teen in 1944, Galbán became a member of Los Zafiros in 1963, adding his acclaimed American-influenced style to the world-renowned vocal group that combined traditional Latin [...]
Everyone's heard 'Because the Night,' but whose song is it? Here we look at some of its famous and not-so-famous covers.
I WANNA BE YOUR COVER! #3 O nome da nossa seção de covers mudou mas a proposta continua a mesma: apresentar grandes reinvenções de trabalhos de artistas que você curte e que costuma acompanhar por aqui! Na seção desta sexta, destaque para uma versão sensacional do Scissor Sisters pra clássica "Take Me Out" , do Franz Ferdinand (que certamente você já ouviu em alguma finaleira da Freak! ) e para as étnicas "Rock The Casbah" , do The Clash , revisitada pelo franco-argelino Rachid [...]
As promised, I'm back. I had another week off... Sorry about that! As much as I bitch about life and work and all sorts of other crap, I haven't really got a leg to stand on when I can take two weeks off and the weather decides to shine down on me. This is just another list of good songs I've been listening to over the last seven days or so. Considering just how sunny it's been there's a song by the Buena Vista Social Club that's made the cut and it's amazing. The whole song is good, [...]
Mashup Monday – We're going to melt you faces off with enough mashed up music to make you wanna slap yo' mama. itstk will be bringing you the dopest dope in the mashup world. We've been scouring the music lands, and filing through tracks that you enthusiastic readers and musicians have sent us. We've found mashups from DJ's far and wide. We've found down-tempo ones. We've found super fast and beaty ones. Short ones and long ones. Ones that you wanna sit back and enjoy, and ones that will make you want to rage all over a dance floor. [...]
In celebration of District Department of the Environment Green DC Day , a preemptive celebration of Earth Day , I'd like to present to you the first Frontier Psychiatrist mixtape: I Wish I Had Glaucoma. Inside are 17 handpicked tracks bound to stimulate, awaken and soothe your percolating mind. We know, 2011 has been rough at times. Take this evening to enjoy some tunes while posting up on your couch, porch or refugee camp. I Wish I Had Glaucoma Punch [...]
Canadian singer goes to Cuba and records an album in the same studio as Buena Vista Social Club-members recorded: talk about putting the son into chanson. As I understand it from this biography , Philémon Bergeron-Langlois (aka Philemon Chante) did contact a few people before he went to the island, but wasn't fully prepared. It took him about a week to find the right musicians. He was lucky to get recording time at the famous Egrem Studios, where Beny Moré, Ruben Gonzales and a whole bunch of legendary Cuban musicians worked. Yami, who sings harmonies, did not speak French. [...]
Years ago my parents went to Cuba for a few weeks, and brought back a load of Cuban music. At the time I loved it, and listened to all the albums over and over again. But since then the music has lain dormant in my iTunes for unknown reasons. Since discovering moombahton, cumbia and all the rest, I realised that I had this library of amazing Caribbean music in my iTunes, so I started listening to it again. Compared to modern moombahton, cumbia and tropical music, the rhythm and soul of these tradition tracks is so effortless, so real, and so inspiring. I can't [...]
West Africa, and its tonalities, instruments, and rhythmic traditions, is responsible for a much larger share of American music than most know or would care to admit. African-Americans, who themselves were descended centuries ago from residents of countries such as Benin, Togo, and Mali, brought along with them the minor pentatonic scale (which, with the addition of the tritone, was transformed into what we now consider the blues scale), stringed instruments including the banjo, more syncopated rhythms than Europeans were used to, and a rich tradition of improvisation. These musical qualities stretched across the Americas, with Cuba showcasing the most [...]
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You know what is getting me all excited this Thursday night? Besides the fact that I'm vacation all week, I just had a great day with my wife and kiddos, and I've had a couple of Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ales? And we're about to jump into 2011? Well, it's all this undiscovered music - new and old. Mostly old, the way I work. There are too many originators, trailblazers and legends I have yet to fully explore. This year, thanks to a great book and an amazing documentary ( I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The [...]
[This article originally appeared in The Jewish Daily Forward ] AutorYno's David Konopnicki Back in 1997, Buena Vista Social Club introduced American audiences to a style of Cuban music that was popular in Havana in the 1950s. The album charmed the critics, topped the charts, spawned a documentary film, and was championed by Starbucks when the coffee behemoth became a curator of world music. Such a crossover seems unlikely with Pastrami Bagel Social Club , the [...]
Filed under: Around the World There wasn't a lot of talking in Madrid's Studio Sonoland on a day near the end of 2008 when a group of Cuban musicians and a group of West African performers gathered for the first time. It was a momentous occasion, the belated realization of a dream producer Nick Gold had pursued for 12 years, something left hanging back then when a group of African performers Gold had tried to bring to Havana but who couldn't make it due [...]
by chico The original batch of musicians behind 1997's Buena Vista Social Club have reassembled for a recording session entitled Afrocubism . The album is out on October 19th and is sure to be a valiant compilation of sound for those who cherish authentic music from the nations of Mali and Cuba. Check out this mini documentary released on NPR here and stream the first single "Al vaivén de mi carreta" here .
Rick Bayless is one of the few gringos who gets almost universal props for his sizzling takes on Mexican cuisine. In his oven-scarred hands, the seemingly humblest ingredients of the putzy backyard garden-maize, tomatoes, peppers, onions-are magically transformed and elevated into cuisine to appease the most capricious Mayan king . The Chicago chef is, unsurprisingly, beloved by foodies-in-chief President Barack Obama and Michelle. He recently cast his uber-locavore, arriba arriba! culinary spell at a state dinner feting Mexican President Felipe Calderon, his wife Margarita Zavala and a few-hundred D.C. and West coast celebrity movers and [...]
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