Maracuyeah Collective presents special all night party featuring dinner and show - a Sexy tropical serenata with underground avant-bolero genius Helado Negro from 8pm to 3 am at Judy’s, 2212 14th St. NW
I wonder who this is? Will google later, unless someone els knows more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
x-post to James Redd-- Rudiph reposted rhythms discussion on the below thread:
boom chicka boom: Rolling Beats, Rhythms, Drums n Handclaps Thread
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Where do these out of the blue garage salsa collections come from?
http://open.spotify.com/album/2XDbJnBzN9Q2FHNQ6ri21a
This one sounds pretty good so far.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty much the only type of "new" salsa worth listening to.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I think I need a copy of this for my car.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
It's not new of course, that's the point. But new-to-me. Possibly new to being digitial, possibly not.
Still listening to this compilation and I noticed this one track popped out. It's Kako. That explains it. Higher tier than most of this stuff.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, curmudgeon, will take a look
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 February 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
x-post-- still need to listen to that Spotify salsa list Rudip posted. I listened to but was not wowed by retro salsa and more on Daptone label band Los Hacheros. They're on that label that brought us Sharon Jones' revivalist soul, and seemed to aimed at a crossover market.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
to be
http://www.tickeri.com/events/mayito-rivera-de-los-van-van
This vocalist from Los Van Van is appearing live tonight with a NY band in the DC area, I just discovered. I'm too tired to go...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 February 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
Also gonna skip Arcangel tonight, and Ivy Queen tomorrow. But I am going to a locally produced effort today called "Remembering the Palladium," that will have live music and dance recalling that NYC mambo palace that was around from 1948 to 1966
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 February 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
The "Palladium" tribute thing was fun. While one of the actors wasn't so great, most of the dancers were good, and the big band was impressive
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of the Palladium, D.C.'s Paul Hawkins and his band opened for Tito Puente there once. Hawkins was a non-Latino African-American who got into mambo in the 50s, became D.C. first African-american dance teacher for Arthur Murray, and he played timbales and congas and sat in with Tito and with Dizzy Gillespie in their DC gigs for years. He just passed at age 79. Here's a tribute piece http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/27/remembering-paul-hawkins-pioneering-d-c-percussionist-bandleader-and-dancer/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:58 (ten years ago) link
ttp://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282597908/first-listen-calle-13-multi_viral
some good, some eh tracks
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282597908/first-listen-calle-13-multi_viral
I like some of it but not the cliched reggae at the end. The spoken word from the Wikileaks guy does also not add much.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Nelly Furtado working with Calle 13
I threw a few more comments about new Calle 13 here. Still need to listen to it some more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 March 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
That's an old thread btw, Furtado is not on new Calle 13
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 March 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/03/05/285931990/possessed-by-joy-an-american-drummer-in-cuba
haven't read all of this or checked out the linked videos yet.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 March 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Gawker's car blog, Jalopnik, is all pissed off that Residente pushes his Maserati off a cliff in Calle 13's new video.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 8 March 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
I think next year I am going to start a 2015- thread, with an open-ended period of rolling. I don't see much point in having a new thread each year.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Skimming the new album now. Calle 13 just don't seem that interested in music (based on this album but also on some of the earlier ones). If Residente wants to use Calle 13 as a vehicle for spoken word, that's fair enough, but it kind of leaves me out in the cold. Or maybe it's plenty musical but just in a Latin Alternative way that bores me.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they could do a "re-disovering our boricua roots" album that would win me back. Bomba, plena, jibaro, reggaeton, veteran salseros wheeled in with oxygen tanks. . .
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
Also bad taste in guitar solos.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Ha. They went with Latin folkies and Tom Morello and a Native American as musical guests this time. Someone needs to interview Visitante, because he does most of the music programming I am pretty sure
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/a-chatty-and-relaxing-evening-with-juan-perro-at-the-howard-theatre/2014/03/10/81aaac88-a811-11e3-8a7b-c1c684e2671f_story.html?tid=gog_ent_article_grid
mellowed out Aging Latin alternative?
The man who performed Sunday night at the Howard Theatre was introduced as Santiago Auseron, formerly of Radio Futura, a new wave group voted in one poll “the best Spanish band of the last 25 years.” But the musician who took the stage was Juan Perro, a pop-jazz troubadour heavily influenced by Son Cubano, the 1930s style popularized in the United States five decades later by the Buena Vista Social Club.
Auseron and Perro are the same person, which could have confused the uninitiated listener. But there didn’t seem to be many of those in the small yet fervent audience, which cheered every aspect of the set.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.negrophonic.com/2014/dj-rupture-enero-2013-cumbia-mix/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Year old "cumbia not nuevo cumbia" cd now available online
Still haven't listened to that yet.
Friday April 4th in the DC area- El Gran Combo (de Puerto Rico) at the Howard; Bobby Sanabria at the Smithsonian; Tiempo Libre (Florida-based timba band) at Artisphere; and Jowell y Randy at the Palace
busy night
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
NY Times writer Jon Pareles:
March suddenly turned into Latin pop blockbuster season. By some coincidence, arena-filling stars who tend to take years between releases emerged almost simultaneously with new albums: Shakira and Juanes, who are both from Colombia, Enrique Iglesias from Spain and the reggaeton rapper Wisin from Puerto Rico. Romeo Santos, the Dominican bachata singer who was born in the Bronx and was Aventura’s lead singer for 17 years, beat the rush by releasing his second solo studio album in February.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/arts/music/new-music-by-shakira-juanes-enrique-iglesias-and-wisin.html
He seems to like Romeo Santos the most, followed by Juanes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
I have been really feeling this lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsbjruwMeA
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8igEjpu4u8
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
Started listening to the 1st thing Hurting posted (the drumming one) and got distracted. Need to get back to these later
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Still haven't gotten back to the videos yet, but I did see El Gran Combo again last night. Pianist and arranger Rafael Ithier who founded the Puerto Rican group in 1962, and is the only original member, just conducts this big band now, but the vocalists have been around for quite awhile and their vocals and awesome salsa meets motown choreography is excellent. Horn section and rhythm section were great too. My gf & my dancing was poor, but we had fun.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
Dear ILM,
Marc Anthony tickets in a 10,000 seat basketball arena went on sale today. Have never seen him live, but decided not to spend $73 a ticket each for me and gf to go. Am I being cheap?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/armando-peraza-world-recognized-drummer-dies-at-89/2014/04/16/44ff6fe0-c5b1-11e3-8b9a-8e0977a24aeb_story.html
Cuban born percussionist with Dizzy for a bit and Santana for a long time
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
RIP, Cheo Feliciano, as posted on other threads.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/04/20/dominican-singer-sonia-silvestre-dies--after-two-strokes-at-61/
Dominican ballad singer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Spring/summer and the stars are touring:
Marc Anthony, Willie Colon, Don Omar, Arcangel, Gloria Trevi, Anthony Santos, El Tri, Yandel
Around 6 years ago when I saw Willie Colon they were billing the show as his farewell before retirement. It even said that on his own website. But I don't think he ever stopped touring.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they said he was "retiring," as in "shy."
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Ah, that explains it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
finally listened to those percussion-heavy items Hurting posted back in March. Nice enough
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
And was listening to the new Jorge Drexler album this morning. Caetano Veloso and rapper Ana Tijoux guest on it. So far I like Drexler's pop-rock en espanol. Some nice vocal melodies
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Was listening to some old-school Joe Cuba. I don't know it well, but I love that boogalu sound. I have read references to purists who snear at it, but I pay them no mind. Decades later such criticism seems even less relevant.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
x-post --Still liking that Jorge Drexler. It's more than just standard cliched Alt-latino pop, although it has some of those attributes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 April 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Which oldtimers show to choose:
7-18- KESTAFEST: GRUPO NICHE, JORGE CELEDON, EL GRAN COMBO, ORQUESTA GUAYACAN at Patriot Center (salsa)
7-18-Daddy Yankee at Echostage (reggaeton)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6077182/juan-formell-of-los-van-van-dead-at-71
A joke known in Havana and in Miami’s Cuban community may start making the rounds again, tinged with sadness this time, as fans and fellow artists mourn the loss of Juan Formell, the founder of Cuba’s 45-year-old dance band Los Van Van. The story goes that years from now, Fidel Castro comes back from the dead in search of his legacy. He finds the entry for his name in an encyclopedia: “Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban politician in the era of Los Van Van.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, May 2, 2014 11:56 AM (0 seconds ago) Book
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 May 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/07/310154191/juan-formell-remembering-cubas-musical-nonconformist
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and its Music, posted a bunch of Juan Formell rememberances, most en Espanol. He is/was a big deal for Cubans.
I have been listening to Formell's onetime pianist in Los Van Van, the nearly 70 year old guy known as Pupy. He and his big band Los Que Son Son are coming to my neck of the woods July 25th. They were a lot of fun the last time I saw them.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link