Soneros All Stars

Salsa show: Chocolate vs Mamy

Dei danser til låta Raspadoza av Manolito Simonet.

Casino.com

Dansekompaniet Casino.com under leiing av Yanek Revilla øver koreografi til låta Agua av Los Van Van.

Tumbao Habana

Tumbao Habana med låta Amanezco.

In December 2007 Tumbao Habana celebrated their 10th anniversary. The group was founded in 1997 by director and keyboardist Pascualito Cabrejas. During that time they have earned themselves a place in the Havana timba scene with weekly concerts at the EGREM venues.

Pascualito has a facility for finding new talent, and Tumbao Habana has given many young musicians and singers their first taste of the Casa de la Música circuit as well as foreign tours, such as their regular trips to Peru. The band consists of piano, keyboard, bass, timbal with kick drum, congas, güiro and a very diverse horn section featuring two trumpets, trombone and sax. The front line has three singers, although in concert Pascualito occasionally leaves the keyboard to join on coro.

Tumbao Habana has released two studio CDs, Tumbao Habana (2000) and Ese Huevo Quiere Sal (2002), and they plan to record another in 2008. Their studio CDs are a mix of styles including timba, salsa, reggae-salsa, orchestrated rumba,
mambo-rap and covers of traditional Cuban songs.

Kjelde: timba.com

Jorge Camaguey y Paulina - Son

Jorge Camaguey med partner danser son til Jovenes Clasicos Del Son og låta Brujeria de que.

Azucar Negra- A mal tiempo, buena cara

Azucar Negra med låta A mal tiempo, buena cara frå plata Toque Natural.

Azucar Negra: Toque Natural

"Out comes the new Azucar Negra, led by the great Cuban composer and bandleader, Leonel Limonta, featuring a killing new woman singer Aylin Dalleras. The band hasn’t released an album in a couple of years, and here’s the real deal, hard timba dance music formed by all night dance shows, with the recording a studio version, shortened a bit, of what happens live. Just check out the first tune, "Toque Natural," which spends nearly 5 minutes — and ends 10 minutes to early — working through a maze of structural changes, rhythms that move around, riffs, breakdowns, coros, with Dalleras’s voice blowing like a trumpet over it all. Then the next tune, "El Picaron," with another great singer Lester Ciarreta, stepping through the thick coros, ventures into rap towards the end, with a wicked rhythm section churning up a storm. And if anybody wondered about Limonta’s songwriting skill, check out the third track, "La Palabra," featuring Dalleras, which opens with a long discussion about a word that’s only identified, finally, in the coro, dragging a listener/dancer into the music. The fantastic piano breaks, help, too, and her almost desperate improvisations — listen to her sing “Mi vida…” — for some beauty. Anyway, here it is, modern Cuban music, in all its precise glory.
Highly Recommended."

Kjelde: descarga.com, Peter Watrous

Timba Night Topp 10

1. Roberton: Manana :Promo
2. Tumbao Habana: Compartiendo Alegria :Promo
3. Wil Campa: Son a Santiago :Promo
4. Manolin: Ready to go premix :Promo
5. Paulito FG: Ella No Sabe :Promo
6. Cesar Pedroso: Un Poquito al Reves :Promo
7. Klimax: Adios Amor :Promo
8. Ciclon Cubano: De que llego llego :Promo
9. Tirso Duarte: La Cosa Mas Bella: Fin Del Juego
10. Juan Kemell: Bajame La Musica : Havananza

Tumbao Habana- Compartiendo Alegria

Charanga Habanera

David Calzado og Charanga Habanera med låta Hagamos Un Chen frå plata Tremendo Delirio som einkvar timbaentusiast bør ha i samlinga.

Adalberto Alvarez på Union Scene

Fredag 11. april

Adalberto Alvarez spiller på Union Scene i Drammen. Et av de mest populære salsaorkestre fra Cuba som feirer 35 års jubileum i vår. Billett: kr 280/230. Aldersgrense: 18 år, dørene åpner kl 20:00, gratis introkurs kl 21:00 til 22:00, Pachongo på utescenen på 22:00 til 23:00, konserten starter kl 23:00. Dj hele kvelden. Mer info på www.unionscene.no.



Her er dei med Un pariente en el campo frå plata Mi Linda Habanera.

Mi Linda Habanera- Adalberto Alvares y su Son

"This is what Adalberto fans have been waiting for: A fresh salsa Cubana release with the heat and style that he is known for. And, although Mr. Alvarez' sound is modern and vital, he hasn't jumped to the timba bandwagon: these highly danceable arrangements are firmly rooted in the salsa/son tradition — a tradition Alvarez embraced with Son 14. And, boy, can he swing. The cover track, "Mi Linda Cubana," is currently a worldwide Top-10 DJ pick — and deservedly so. But, for the most part, every track here has been tailored for the dancer. Alvarez even reinterprets his own mega-hit "¿Y Qué Tú Quieres Que Te Den?" With a Lucumí intro by Zenaida Armenteros, this 11-1/2 minute track plows through a short rap break and then, like an out of control locomotive, blisters onward for pure salsa bliss sung with a clarity and authority by Joaquin Moré Machado. It's the crown of the production. With arrangements by Roberto Linares, Joaquin Betancourt, and Adalberto Alvarez, this one, folks, is...
Very Highly Recommended."

Kjelde: descarga.com

Timba Night 1. april

DJ Charanga og DJ Fuerza mikser kubansk salsa, son, timba og dei nyaste musikkpromoane på Macumba Social Club frå kl 20.

Israel Cachao Lopez 1918- 2008

Israel Lopez died on the morning of March 22, 2008 in Coral Gables, Florida at the age of 89. He died from complications resulting from kidney failure.

"Israel "Cachao" López (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), often known just as "Cachao" was a Cuban mambo musician, bassist and composer, who has helped bring mambo music to popularity in the United States of America in the early 1950s. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has been described as "the inventor of the mambo". He is considered a master of descarga (Latin jam sessions).
Cachao was, in his last years, the most important living figure in Cuban music, on or off the island. And according to Cuban-music historian Ned Sublette he was arguably the most important bassist in twentieth-century popular music, innovating not only Cuban music but also influencing the now familiar bass lines of American R&B, ``which have become such a part of the environment that we don't even think where they came from.
López played the acoustic bass with his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes López. The brothers composed literally thousands of songs together and were heavily influential on Cuban music from the 1930s to the 1950s. They introduced the nuevo ritmo ("new rhythm") in the late 1930s, which transformed the danzón by introducing African rhythms into Cuban music, which led to mambo.
A possibly more important move took place in 1957, when Cachao gathered a group of musicians in the early hours of the morning, pumped from playing gigs at Havana's popular nightclubs, to jam in front of the mikes of a recording studio. The resulting descargas, known to music aficionados worldwide as Cuban jam sessions, revolutionized Afro-Cuban popular music. Under Cachao's direction, these masters improvised freely in the manner of jazz, but their vocabulary was Cuba's popular music. This was the model that wold make live performances of Afro-Cuban based genres, from salsa to Latin jazz, so incredibly hot.
In the early 1960's, according to the documentary-film "La Epoca,", expected in theaters in September 2008, Cachao was one of two of the most in-demand bassists in New York City - the other being Alfonso "El Panameno" Joseph, who was the bassist of legendary Cuban tres player Arsenio Rodriguez for 8 years until Arsenio's death in December 1970. Joseph and Lopez substituted for each other over a span of 5 years, performing at New York City clubs and venues such as the Palladium Ballroom, The Roseland, The Birdland, Havana San Juan, and Havana Madrid. Mentioned in the film, La Epoca, while Cachao was performing with Machito's orchestra in New York, Alfonso was recording and performing with Cuban conga player Candido Camero. When Alfonso left Candido's band to work with Charlie Rodriguez and Johnny Pacheco, it was Cachao who took his place in Candido's band. Cachao was recently scheduled to be interviewed by Executive Producer Josue Joseph of the film in New Haven, CT where Cachao and Palladium-era dancer Cuban Pete were scheduled to perform at Yale University. The film is about the evolution of Latin music and dance during the Palladium-era to present day, and Cachao was scheduled to discuss his contribution of the mambo rhythm, which he derived from Arsenio Rodriguez, documented in the film.
This majestic influence came from a man of sweet demeanor and unassailable sense of humor. Fronting his band at a fancy dance in Coral Gables when he was already in his late 80s, he seemed so frail he had to lean his whole body on the contrabass to keep from falling. But a look at his beatific smile proved that he was in heaven already, embracing his instrument like a lover, like a strong friend.
A marvel of the 20th century, Cachao was born into a family of musicians, many of them bassists -- around 40 and counting in his extended family.
As an 8-year-old bongo player, he joined a children's septet that included a future famous singer and bandleader, Roberto Faz. A year later, already on bass, he provided music for silent movies in his neighborhood theater, in the company of a pianist who would become a true superstar, the great cabaret performer Ignacio Villa, known as Bola de Nieve.
His parents made sure he was classically trained, first at home and then at a conservatory. In his early teens he was already playing contrabass with the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana, under the baton of guest conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
For a while, he had two distinct musical personae. In the New York salsa scene he was revered as a music god, with homage concerts dedicated to him, and records of his music produced by Cuban-music collector René López. In Miami, he was an ordinary working musician who would play quinceañeras and weddings, or back dance bands in the notorious Latin nightclubs of the Miami Vice era.
It took a celebrity, Miami's own Andy García, to integrate his musical personality into one: that of a legendary master. In the '90s, García produced the recordings known as Master Sessions and big concerts honoring his legacy. Since then, Cachao became again a household word among Cubans and his reputation continued to grow.
Lopez has won several Grammy Awards for both his own work and his contributions on albums by Latin music stars, including Gloria Estefan. In 1995, he won a Grammy for Master Sessions Volume 1. In 2003, he won a Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album together with Bebo and Patato Valdés for El Arte Del Sabor.
Lopez won a further Grammy in 2005, again for his own work, ¡Ahora Si!.
His nephew, Orlando "Cachaíto" López became one of the mainstays of the famed Buena Vista Social Club group.
Cachao has played with artists such as Celia Cruz, Bebo Valdes, Tito Puente, Willy Chirino, Paquito D'Rivera, Willie Colon, and his music has been featured on movies such as The Birdcage, and on the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack. Actor Andy Garcia produced a documentary entitled Cachao ... Como Su Ritmo No Hay Dos ("With A Rhythm Like No Other") in 1993 about his music."

Kjelde: Wikipedia

Maykel Fonts- Rumba Cubana

Felix Pupy Insua med partner

Elegua dance company live on Eurosport

Pupy Y Los Que Son Son - Un poquitico al revés

Klimax

Giraldo Piloto og Klimax med Es Un Peligro frå plata Nadie Se Parece A Ti.

Klimax: Nadie Se Parece A Ti

"There's funny stuff all over this record; it's dripping street. Check out the last few seconds of "La Rompeamor de La Habana," a tune about a girl that breaks up marriages. And the first tune, "La Chica Perfecta," is worth the price of admission, a flat out timba rocker that moves into a long groove section, then into breaks. Recorded in the Canary islands, the music sounds modern, with a bass that grinds more than even the regular timba style. As usual, Piloto breaks up the rhythms, moving into shuffles that sound pan-Caribbean through timba and onto to cumbias. One tune opens with a synth-accordion that sends a friendly commercial wave to Colombia; it doesn't take long for the breaks to take over, turning the cumbia into a timba-fueled roar. This is the shiznitz, top grade Cuban dance music with an eye to the outside world.
Highly Recommended."

Kjelde: descarga.com, Peter Watrous

Alain Daniel - Avisale a mi gente

Compagnie Elegua

Det fransk- kubanske dansekompaniet Elegua i eit show frå ruedafestivalen i Bordeaux, Frankrike 2007.

Explosion Del Centro

Exposion Del Centro opptrer til "De La Timba A Pogolotti " av Cesar Pedroso.