might actually check out the el zol, somethin to do
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like too but I have a family ting happening
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Gonna go see Buika tonight
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
where at?
― fauxmarc, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Howard Theatre for 2 shows (can't imagine she's popular enough for 2 shows but we'll see)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
I guess opening for Nicki Minaj really paid off for her.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 22 June 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
(Just kidding.)
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 22 June 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
The Fania Al-Stars' Live in Africa has been reissued as a CD/DVD set (album and movie, with extra footage). Gonna buy it next week.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 23 June 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Fairly big crowd for Buika's first set. I think her appearance singing in the Almodovar movie and the fact that she hasn't toured since 2010 brought folks in the door. She's a free spirit and maybe could give Nicki Minaj a run in that category.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 June 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I missed Spanish Harlem Orchestra at the same time as Buika at the upscale new DC club the Hamilton, and El Canario on Saturday in Baltimore and 3Ball MTY on Sunday. Saw Jose Alberto El Canrio a long time ago, wished I could have seen 3Ball MTY but family event took priority. FauxMarc did you go?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 June 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
nope, ended up endlessly brunching
― fauxmarc, Monday, 25 June 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Salsa dancing still diffusing in China:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2012-06/25/content_15520975.htm
Think of all the potential partners!
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
N'Klabe has released an album of covers including: Quitate Tu (really? they went there?), Lluvia, Persona Ideal, A Puro Dolor (!), etc. Just what the world was waitng for. Salsa is dead: stick a fork in it.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 July 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Who are the geniuses coming up with these projects?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 2 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I just found out Marlow Rosado is performing here this Friday. Whatever happened to the art of publicity?
This was a good effort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPnjtJ-NKtw
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
(Previous comment about the state of salsa music should not be taken as an indication that I've lost my love for salsa dancing and for salsa music at its best. It's just difficult to see how the music can recover much of its oomph at this point, unless it comes from some left field source where salsa dancing boils over so much that people start making the music and somehow breathe life into it. Like Chongqing. Doubtful though.
I still perk up when a solid Puerto Rican or Colombian salsa band comes to town.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
cuz lord knows someone needs to show Cheo Feliciano how he should have sung Anacaona.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
Who Will Be Playing Yomo Toro In The Soon-To-Be-Released Hector Lavoe Biopic El Cantante?
RIP cuatro player Yomo Toro
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no!
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
DC: Poirier & Boogat (DJ & MC)with Empresarios, Alma Tropicália, Maracuyeah, Fort Knox Five vs. Thunderball, Jay Clue at u hall tonight
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Did not get the most exciting quotes from Poirier & Boogat when I talked on the phone to them for my W. CP blogpost that's up today. Eh, its ok. Not included in the short piece---Boogat is listening to old Fania stuff and new Schlachthofbronx from Munich; Poirier is listening to lots of dancehall. Phone connection was not the best--Boogat mentioned some other stuff I could not figure out despite asking him to repeat it.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
9-10:15 - Maracuyeah (cumbia dj'ing and more)10:15 - 11:15 - Alma Tropicalia (live band Brazilian tropicalia covers)11:15 - 11:30 - Maracuyeah (band change-over)11:30 - 12:30 - Empresarios (Latin funk)12:30 - 2:00 - Poirier & Boogat2:00 - 4:00 - fort knox five, thunderball, jayclue
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Tried listening to the new Wisin y Yandel disc on Spotify. It's basically the next step down the path from pop-reggaeton to straight Euro-trance-pop, like their last three albums, but this one has a song with Chris Brown and T-Pain, and another song with Jennifer Lopez, so unlike their previous work, I won't be buying this one.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
I'm glad you draw the line somewhere.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
I continue to think Tito Ortos is a good role model for the sort of mixed style I dance, with lots of cross body leads, but often in a more circular form. I get annoyed when people get dogmatic about the strict linear slot thing (though I try to stick to that if that's what I'm surrounded by on a crowded dance floor, or maybe even just if I am on a crowded dance floor, since it does seem to conserve space better).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHR7s6gtwtohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze4AamA-GE4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBjjDQZmOM
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
funny, i was mentally dogging some people for not being the slot last night during empresarios (but it was crowded and they were really all over)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
You are the enemy! Haha. I do absolutely think dancers need to be considerate and adapt to existing dance-floor conditions. A couple of my favorite semi-advanced circular moves involve fling my follower out into a free spin (and then moving with her to eventually catch her back and probably go into a CBL), not ideal for crowded floor conditions.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
I still haven't even been going out, just taking classes, but hopefully I'll make it to see Marlow Rosado this Friday and maybe some other salsa nights throughout the summer. As I keep repeating, it's frustrating that the scene here is live band oriented, but particularly because so many of the bands are heavily timba influenced (and so many of the others are pretty mediocre). I probably need to watch how I say this since everybody really knows everybody else here. There is .5 degrees of separation. Word travels.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
I was dancing with a beginner in class this week to "Quiero Salsa" and I swear it felt like she was dancing half time. I felt like saying: what they hell are you dancing to? Of course I would never say that. Plus she was young and cute and Latina. Not sure why teachers choose such a fast song when there are lots of beginners learning relatively complicated moves (it was a low intermediate class, but a lot of the followers were borrowed from the beginner class).
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Because of being so familiar with that song, I tend to dive right in even more than usual. Maybe I should have started with a few more basics or something.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is kind of awesome, if infuriating to me (and apparently lots of others--it ended up being locked) at times:
http://www.salsaforums.com/showthread.php?t=19216
It's like every conflict over salsa dancing rolled into one.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
wow. funny how it parallels convos re: djs playing technical mixes vs "playing for the crowd" or w/e though (with many more angles to squibble over), dance/music nerds are dance/music nerds
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 5 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm performing at the Orlando Salsa Congress on Sunday, the "Mambo Swing Orchestra" will be playing at the social dancing, i think they're orl locals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FN-wgoekLw
― fauxmarc, Friday, 6 July 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Good luck
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Break a leg.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Nice stuff here (as found on salsaforums):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6uxLpfmA8
The follower in particular is pretty amazing (not to dismiss Eddie Torres and son, obviously!).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Tutuma Social Club.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Google tells me that was an Afro-Peruvian place. I shamefully have never made it to the similar such places in the W. DC area. I think there are a couple
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Any thoughts about Ondatrópica? I like I Ron Man, and the concept appeals to me, but I'm afraid it's going to be party music for Pier One.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
Have not heard that Colombian effort yet. My ears have been further south(listening to Chilean rap, Brazilian forro with rebaca--fiddle instead of accordion, and Argentianian tango).
So in an interview I read with Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux, it said her latest cd was recorded at the time of Chilean student protests. But for someone deficient in Spanish like me, what comes across on her new cd is contemporary radio-friendly r'n'b oriented hiphop rhythms that were not present on her 1977 release two years ago. Not sure if it's a musical improvement.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-07-06/news/29762927_1_afro-peruvian-music-jazz-club-house-band
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
What I've heard of Ondatrópica sounds super trad, which is why it appeals to me. I guess I am officially anticipating the release, but the more reviews refer to it as a "party starter" the more I think I won't like it (although that might say more about the reviewer's lack of familiarity with cumbia than anything else?)
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
The Brit guy organizing Colombian musicians aspect has me a bit apprehensive, but his involvement seems sincere based on the little I have read
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I know -- it's setting off my alarm bells, yet I like what I've heard. I'll give it a chance!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
any news on the tribal guarachero front?
― the late great, Friday, 13 July 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
3Ball Mty in NYC for the LAMC conference. I missed their 2 W. DC area gigs
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 July 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
¯\(°_o)/¯
x-post
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 14 July 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
So Bobby Sanabria has a new big band album coming out next month.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I heard it straight from the horse's mouth.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 July 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Will it win a grammy now that that Latin-jazz is back
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link