Ugh; Willie Colón comes out pro-Trump.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
“I think he should have more salsa at his events.”
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Some refreshingly sensible comments from him there, though I wouldn't criticize performers who want to boycott the inauguration. Considering who Trump was running against, I am relieved he won. He's not the only lifetime Democrat to vote for Trump.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:54 (seven years ago) link
But then again, I don't believe in open borders either.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
Considering who Trump was running against, I am relieved he won.
OK, bye now. I have no interest in continuing this conversation.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
I don't agree with Rudiph either. Trump's Supreme Court nominees will not be helpful
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 January 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Just watched some video of afro-Venezuelan singing and percussion ensemble Betsayda Machado y la Parranda el Clavo at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Good stuff
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 January 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/arts/music/residente-calle-13-solo-album-interview.html?_r=0
Residente traced his genealogy and traveled to those various parts of the world linked to his heritage to record his new solo effort. Plus he discovered he's 3rd cousins of the Hamilton director Miranda. I haven't heard the new album yet.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 January 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
I forget whether I have heard Don Omar song that's #1 on a Billboard chart
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
I was the only vote for Ile: Canibal in the Voice critics poll song/track list
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
This year is the 20th anniversary of Silencio = Muerte: Red Hot + Latin. Remember when "rock en español" was a thing?
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Less crossover interest but things like the LAMC still happen
Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) ... JULY 11th - 15th, 2017 NEW YORK CITY REGISTRATION COMING SOON
plus this:
http://www.npr.org/sections/altlatino/2017/01/11/509141239/the-alt-latino-spring-2017-new-music-preview
Café Tacuba and others
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I know it still exists - the new Chicano Batman album is great. I mostly meant "a thing" as in "a thing you could get English-language editors to give a shit about."
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 27 January 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Sadly, too many editors (and music critics) seem to be only interested in English language indie, plus pop and rap
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 January 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Cuban acts remain trendy for some fests and concert halls. This is from the just announced New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest where Meghan Trainor and other big pop names will headline while on a smaller stage:
CUBA COMES TO JAZZ FEST:
Los Van Van ; Chucho Valdes Quintet ; Gente de Zona; Pedrito Martinez and the Rumba ; Telmary y Habana Sana of Cuba; Adonis y Osain del Monte of Cuba; Septeto Santiaguero of Cuba ; Changüí Guantánamo of Cuba; Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro of Cuba; Daymé Arocena of Cuba ; Conga Los Hoyos of Cuba; Grupo Caury of Cuba ;
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 January 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
I just turned in a Q&A with a Cuban metal band to Bandcamp. I included their answers in the original Spanish, alongside the translations, in case anyone reading was interested.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 27 January 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Winner
Donde Están? by Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo
Best Tropical Latin Grammy winner at last night's award show
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: Ilevitable.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 February 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7686370/jose-lugo-surprise-latin-winner-grammys
the award went posthumously to Lugo and his Guasábara Combo for Dónde Están?, his last album before he succumbed to cancer in June 2016.
Lugo, a pianist, producer and bandleader, was no stranger to the Grammys; in 2006, Gilberto Santa Rosa’s Directo al corazón, produced by Lugo, won Best salsa album. And Lugo himself was nominated for his album Guasábara in 2010.
But death is powerful when it comes to awards. Already respected as a musician, Lugo was suddenly front and center after battling cancer, and losing, at only 56 years old.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
from that Billboard article: Fonseca, fresh from winning a Latin Grammy (for Best tropical song), seemed a shoe-in with his adventuresome Conexión.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 February 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Still haven't listened to those 2 but intend to
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
Eh the Fonseca album's pop sheen is too gloppy
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 18 February 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Finally listened to the Grammy winning late Lugo and his Guasábara Combo-- Dónde Están?.
Nice solid salsa and a cut near the end that has a Brazilian carnival drums feel to it.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Ben Ratliff, former NY Times critic and others liked his late 2008 “Guasábara” (Norte) album that has a mini-orchestra on it with 9 horn players and 5 percussionists plus guest vocalists.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
A current freelancer for NY Times on Latin jazz folks like Pedrito Martínez, Alfredo Rodríguez and Arturo O’Farrill and David Virelles and bassist Luques Curtis. Martinez is a great rumba percussionist and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/arts/music/grammys-latin-jazz.html?_r=0
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
gio's good people and a solid writer
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
He used to be down here in the DC area and yes, good people. As for what he's writing about--As I have previously noted here--too much Latin jazz seems formulaic to me in a manner that does not wow me, but I will give a shot to listening to some of the folks he mentioned that I have not previously heard.
Salsa can also be criticized as formulaic, but I like that Pedro Lugo farewell release more than most Latin jazz.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Jose Lugo I mean.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Listened to a bit of Jose Lugo and his orchestra on the 2008 Guasábara album. Good stuff. He's not quite hard enough salsa I am guessing for some, but his arrangements aren't wimpy either.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Listening now to last year's album. They sound like they'd rather be playing bad Latin jazz. The rhythm is solid though.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 23 February 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Lugo was an arranger and band leader at times for singers like Santa Rosa and Manuelle that you have rarely praised, so I don't expect you to be impressed
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Lugo did lose in the Latin musicians only Grammys held earlier:
Best Salsa AlbumGrupo Niche, 35 AniversarioWINNER: India, Intensamente India Con Canciones De Juan GabrielJosé Lugo & Guasábara Combo, ¿Dónde Están?Bobby Valentín, Mi Ritmo Es BuenoJohnny Ventura, Tronco Viejo
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
He also used to play with another nominee there-- Bobby Valentin
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Aka "Mr. Soul"
― Disco Blecch and His Exo-Planettes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Lugo was an arranger and band leader at times for singers like Santa Rosa and Manuelle that you have rarely praised, so I don't expect you to be impressed.
Funny, I've had "Perdoname" popping in and out of my head lately. I still kind of like that song, I think just because it was one of the songs from my first salsa dance classes.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 24 February 2017 01:45 (seven years ago) link
I just got The Vitral Saxophone Quartet's Kites Over Havana album off bandcamp. It's some beautiful Cuban style chamber music. Pre-ordered the new Chano Dominguez album while I was there, because I'm in love with that Flamenco Sketches Miles tribute album he did a few years back. I shouldn't really be spending money on music right now, but couldn't resist these two.
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
didn't really like the new Chano Dominguez which is a pleasant but fairly undistinguished live solo piano recording. But was happy to pay for it after leeching the rest of his gear off slsk.
― calzino, Friday, 24 February 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/music/dave-valentin-dead-latin-jazz-flutist.html?_r=0
Had a stroke in 2012, plus Parkinson's
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
RIP. Liked him in Tito Puente's Golden Latin Jazz All-Stars
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:40 (seven years ago) link
Colombia's Maluma is performing at a 10,000 seat arena near Washington DC . Just listened to him for first time. He's pop-reggaeton. Kinda formulaic but ok
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
I think its been years since anyone here on this type of thread was enthusiastic about reggaeton (although I think someone who's on the Afropop/afrobeats auto-tuned African club thread is a fan)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Isidro Infante (where has he been?) has a new album featuring Cuban vocalists singing Puerto Rican salsa:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3JgWMmWDZeR6AOHJdydvhJ
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
"Salsa y Control" with Mayito Rivera will work on the dancefloor. I think the Lebron Brothers live in Colombia extended version is definitive, but it's pretty lengthy.
Haila singing "La Vida Es un Carnival" is an unimaginative choice, but I kind of hate that song anyway. Give her something that wasn't sung by Celia.
This "Fuego la Jicotea" is pretty on point though. Can't do that any more, unfortunately.
Overall this still seems like more cover versions that never needed to exist. I've only skimmed it, but that seems pretty clear.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
I think I should wait to post until something I genuinely like comes along. This could be a long wait.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
I'm switching over to the new tqd, but I think I've heard everything on the album already, via their soundcloud.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2017 Rolling Latin and Afro-Latin Thread Spotify Playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
Slim pickins galore.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:14 (seven years ago) link
it's true.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
I wonder how much that is because of us (the choices from the few of us here) and how much due to the state of the music
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
i would presume the latter; there's lots in the field to choose from, a broad variety of popular styles and not many folks on this board who specialize in latin popular music. fewer still who like to talk about it!
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Maybe I should have or should still start a 2018 thread! But maybe more pop or trap, reggaetón...
Liking J. Balvin, Becky G, Bad Bunny
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Puerto Rican rapper Ozuna guests on a lot of hits
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
i really like the song "oye mujer" by raymix. i heard it for the first time a few months ago but apparently it originally came out, like, years ago?
― dyl, Thursday, 5 July 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
"Oye Mujer" is a 2018 remix with Juanes of a 2015 Raymix track that incorporated traditional sounds
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
the version i heard didn't have juanes! guess i'm just very late as i often am
― dyl, Friday, 6 July 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/style/bomba-puerto-rico-music-dance.html?hpw&rref=fashion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
Puerto Rican bomba drums music and dance lives
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
bomba drumming and dancing at La terraza de Bonanza in Puerto Rico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj0mF5_Mhm0
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link
At a Coney Island NY beach on Sunday afternoon, I heard lots of reggaeton coming from beachgoers portable speakers. More than rap or other popular sounds(though there was a lot of Drake too).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 July 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
Listening to latest album by pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa called Un Dia Cualquiera. Eh, it’s ok Cuban Latin Jazz. Nice enough I guess, but nothing new and nothing that really wows me. Ned Sublette likes it.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
Thread needs some fresh blood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkoVwKQaJg
DJ Snake feat. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B • Taki Taki
(Don’t know where Snake got this beat from, but kudos, it’s a great track)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Ozuna, this is my favorite track of his current album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykqGblj1og
Ozuna feat. J Balvin & Natti Natasha • Sígueme Los Pasos
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
...and speaking of J Balvin, this is my favorite track of his current album, which is great (it's not called "Vibras" for nothing):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlRsN4cyF0
J Balvin • Tu Verdad
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
J Balvin and Ozuna have been killing it with their singles and collaborations in the past couple of years.
There's a trend that's appearing this summer of reggaeton/trap with an almost minimal, soft sound... the lyrics are worthless but the beat for these makes me happy and wishes the trend continues:
Kevin Roldan - PPP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vET7J3oc5sI
Anuel AA - quiere Beber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTtBmo5EbEk
Lalo Ebratt - Mocca (There's also a J Balvin remix but I like the original better)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRwVpzd2G4
Also not really reggaeton but really like beat by Dillon Francis feat. Ximena Sarilñana. Moombathon I guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLM9brT5_w0
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Wow Moka, I was just about to post that “Mocca” track too, just fell right in love with that one. (in my case it would have been the remix, because of its video, but both versions are great)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Also my friends are really into Rosalia (She also has a guest spot in Balvin's Vibras):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht7rBHuXW8
Really interesting combination of flamenco style vocals with 'urban' rhythms. Even the video is really cool in how it combines typical Spain iconography and takes it down and mixes it in a modern setting.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
I remembered people posting about her somewhere, turns out she has her own thread!
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
(and yeah, the Balvin + Rosalía track "Brillo" is another Vibras highlight. With him, it's come for the bangers, stay for the vibes)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Yes to DJ Snake feat. Selena Gomez, Ozuna & Cardi B • Taki Taki
#1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart
https://www.billboard.com/charts/latin-songs
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 October 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Awww man, Dog Latin hating on "reggaeton-lite" (Taki Taki and Despacito) in a separate thread
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 October 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
Don’t let it bring you down.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 15 October 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
I'm not.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 October 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
Grrr, I missed the Latin Grammys last night. J Balvin was nominated for 8 awards but only got 1. Jorge Drexler got 3. Victor Manuelle won the salsa one.
I will look for video clips and more articles online
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/11/16/arts/ap-us-music-latin-grammys.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
I like Uruguay’s Jorge Drexler—pop rooted in folk and Brazilian bossa
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpG5dR3cp9w
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
Awwww
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
That’s what the Salsa Dura DJ at Terraza played to ring in 2019.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
From the NPR jazz critics poll, the separate Latin Jazz category--I have only heard the Sanabria and the Palmieri efforts, but gonna try to listen to some of the others (although that may lead me to come back here complaining that Latin Jazz is stuck in a rut and seems so formulaic
Latin1. David Virelles, Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove), Vol. I & II (Pi)Votes: 21A vibrant compendium in which Virelles disinters the rich musical traditions of his hometown Santiago de Cuba. Unexpectedly, his boldest album. The 35-year-old pianist has spent the last decade channeling Afro-Cuban folklore through a jazz prism, producing records that operate as open-ended mysteries. Here, refreshingly, he eschews abstraction in favor of fealty to the past. Though the traditions Virelles explores are fading from Cuban culture, this effort, fiercely rhythmic and thrumming with energy, is deeply alive. —Matthew Kassel
2. (tie) Dafnis Prieto Big Band, Back to the Sunset (Dafnison) 122. (tie) Miguel Zenón, Yo Soy La Tradición (Miel) 124. Bobby Sanabria, West Side Story Reimagined (Jazzheads) 85. Carlos Henriquez, Dizzy Con Clave (RodBros Music) 76. Eddie Palmieri, Full Circle (Ropeadope) 67. Elio Villafranca, Cinque (ArtistShare) 5
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 04:31 (five years ago) link
The Virelles album is on Bandcamp but not Spotify. Haven’t checked where else. Virelles went back to Cuba and recorded with elders, including vocalists I think, for this. 1 track I heard on Bandcamp was nice enough in a very old-school Cuban way. More dance and traditional than jazz.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Isn’t it time for a new Rolling thread?
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
I guess so. I resisted in the past since not too many folks post, and I wasn’t keeping up the genres represented, but I guess yearly threads do make some sense. Not a lot of new salsa these days that I follow; Latin Jazz hangs on, while reggaeton and bachata seem to thrive, and Latin Trap has become very big
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
I say go for it!
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Ok, here it is:
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2019: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, and more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link