Yep.
Meanwhile Fania, I see in another Billboard article, is trying to promote their brand to a new audience via dj remixes:
“At Fania, we see working with DJs and creating remixes of the original classic as a huge opportunity to target a new audience and thus begin a lifelong connection with the Fania brand,” Skolnick said. “It’s working incredibly well. We’ve increased our social media engagement with 18-34 year olds by more than 150% in the last two years.”
Recently completing a tour in Europe, Marquez will perform at a record release party at Kinfolk as part of the Armada Fania DJ pop series in Brooklyn on Sept. 7, before going on an extensive tour throughout the U.S.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7941984/fanias-santiago-sessions-how-a-globetrotting-djs-childhood-led-to-him
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Spanish-speaking female artists are missing from the crossover conversation, which also doesn’t include lesser-known genres in the Latin music world.
Oh no! Lesser no genres in Latin music continue to be obscure. It's all the fault of those outsiders constructing what "Latin music" is. Everyone knows that all Latinos (another problematic construction, admittedly) listen to all of Latin music in its entirety.
A lot of music writing (like a lot of other writing) seems driven by the need to say something, even if there's nothing that needs to be said.
The hand-wringing looks pretty funny to me at this point.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Everyone knows that all Latinos (another problematic construction, admittedly) listen to all of Latin music in its entirety.
That's why I used to hear Puerto Ricans blasting all that banda when I was living at 16th & Green in Philadelphia in the 90s.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
The Despacito video breaks new ground, drawing attention to previously completely ignored Latina curviness.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
But uncelebrated Latina asses remain uncelebrated. What is to be done?
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Somewhere there is a reasonably good looking young Ecuadoran woman with not much of a booty at all. When will a major label put her in a video?
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile I see that El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico are doing a 55th anniversary tour that will bring them to the Palace, in Woodbridge , VA half an hour or so south of Washington DC Friday night. Only Spanish language bands play there. I think I saw the 50th anniversary tour.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
https://www.tickeri.com/events/598255e3f6ebfc000bcdb91a/el-gran-combo-de-puerto-rico---celebrando-55-a-os-de-trayectoria-
I have basically zero sympathy for people demanding mainstream recognition of Spanish-language music in the U.S. That actor may have some points. I can't really comment on film and TV since I'm so oblivious to them. But Despacito is a pop reggaeton mediocrity, I don't care how many youtube views it has received, or how many times it has been streamed. (I would of course care if I were in the music industry.)
Me [while Africando's "Yay Boy" is playing in club]: This is a good song.Puerto Rican salsera: Do you understand the words?Me: No.Puerto Rican salsera: How do you know it's a good song.
A lot of people think that way, not just white non-Hispanics.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
True re how many people react to non-English songs. However while I recognize that statistically the likelihood of reggaeton or more obscure Latinx sounds becoming a regular part of the mainstream US pop culture may be small, I understand the desire for that culture to be represented.
So "Despacito" was played at a wedding that I was at over Labor Day weekend, and even two (likely Trump supporting )conservatives there that I know, danced.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:56 (seven years ago) link
Kind of like this, but the melodies seem very familiar and I suspect it's a cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cghPur_wWz0
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 September 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
New Plena Libre album.
I'm just looking through the very esoteric Spotify New Music Friday Latin playlist.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 September 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
the melodies seem very familiar and I suspect it's a cover
Yeah - it's right there in the video description: "un remake del clásico de Jorge González"
Here's the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTp-jWf_GM
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
OK. I originally heard it on Spotify.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:02 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for heads up on new Plena Libre. Like them
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 September 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Poor Puerto Rico...Hurricane hit it hard
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/arts/music/lin-manuel-miranda-puerto-rico-relief-song.html?_r=0
The charity benefit song "Almost Like Praying" is on Spotify. It's got its moments.
Rather than creating a mournful number, Mr. Miranda said in an interview, he hoped to capture “the spirit of the island.” As a result, the bilingual “Almost Like Praying,” which takes its title and chorus from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s “Maria,” from “West Side Story,” is bursting with energy
an upbeat charity single featuring an all-star lineup of Latin artists from across genres and generations, including Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Fat Joe, Luis Fonsi, Rubén Blades, Camila Cabello, John Leguizamo, Rita Moreno and Marc Anthony....Also featured on the song: Pedro Capo, Dessa, Juan Luis Guerra, Alex Lacamoire, Ednita Nazario, Joell Ortiz, Anthony Ramos, Gina Rodriguez, Gilberto Santa Rosa, PJ Sin Suela, Tommy Torres and Ana Villafañe.)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igC2mWONVZQ
― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 October 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
washburne is an all around cool dude
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Have you met him?
― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
yeah, coupla times. very friendly on those occasions and happy to talk details and history. also works with belafonte's social justice project teaching music to prisonershttps://www.sankofa.org/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Cool. Did you tell him about your dad?
― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
heh, yeah i did because he was doing a show about the caribbean roots of ragtime and it seemed pertinent.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Was that for his latest project, Rags and Bones?
― Commandolin Wind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
yep, i saw him do it with a full band; was one of my better shows of this year tbh
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.zohomusic.com/cds_detail.php?cds_id=171
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
Saw Washburne in visiting bands in DC a few times. Good player.
Unrelated. Caught some of this below linked PBS doc recently, that aired earlier this year. Some great 60s and 70s NY footage in this. Fania era
http://www.pbs.org/video/latin-music-usa-hour-2-the-salsa-revolution/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/lists/music/latinx-music-writers/
Mostly pop and reggaeton
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
N*d S*blette likes his live NY Latin Jazz
Cuban trovador José Aquiles (from Santiago de Cuba) with David Virelles (his son) at the Jazz Gallery on the 20th. I'd definitely go see Harold López-Nussa at the Blue Note (Oct. 23-24), and I'd go to Bobby Sanabria's PR benefit at Le Poisson Rouge (23).
... benefit organized by Miguel Zenón at Jazz Gallery Nov. 1,
. . . and to this one:>#POETSFORPUERTORICO / A Reading for Hurricane Relief / Saturday, November 4, 2017 / 6:00 p.m.Poets House / 10 River Terrace / Corner Murray & River Terrace / New York, NY
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
Heard the J. Balvin remix of "Mi Gente" with Beyoncé on Spanish-language pop radio this morning.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
i don't understand much spanish. i just learned what the chorus lyrics to becky g's "mayores" mean and O_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFewiplIbw
― dyl, Friday, 27 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
yeah, huh.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 27 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
> Singer orders all white audience members to stand in the back > White female volunteer refuses> Volunteer banned for being racist 🙈 pic.twitter.com/kPgHZNTJDL— The Safest Space (@TheSafestSpace) November 4, 2017
It's okay to be white.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 5 November 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
What does that have to do with this thread?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 November 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
http://uproxx.com/music/karol-g-casi-nada-acoustic-uncharted/
Reggaeton/ r’nb /Trap vocalist Karol G goes acoustic in the link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
She's on tour in the US. With rapper Noriel. Karol G is from Colombia.
On a separate unrelated US tour is the current version of salsa band Grupo Niche, from Colombia.
from wiki--At the age of 62, Varela was found dead in his Cali home on August 8, 2012, apparently from heart failure.[3] Jairo's daughter, Yanila Varela has been the Grupo Niche's owner since her father's death in 2012.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Karol G with reggaeton & "salsa Urbana" producers/performers LaFame. I kinda like this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xZUPI4LwA
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
RIP percussionist Bobby Matos
Born in the Bronx, moved to Cali in the 80s played with lots of Latino and non-Latino acts (Miriam Makeba, Jim Croche)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/rhythm-power
Would like to see this Rhythm and Power: Salsa in NYC exhibit before it closes 11-26. But not sure I will be able to
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 November 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
I was up in NYC this weekend and made it to the Rhythm and Power: Salsa in NYC exhibit! It's small but enjoyable. A great dance video in the hallway that show's the outline of dancers doing various steps, plus a bunch of album covers and other artifacts and audio and photos. Some nice old Palladium ones from the 50s.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 November 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/music/latin-grammys-despacito-lin-manuel-miranda.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
Wow, Ruben Blades won album of the year at the Latin Grammys in Vegas.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
I was up in NYC this weekend and made it to the Rhythm and Power: Salsa in NYC exhibit! It's small but enjoyable.
Only open at Museum of City of NY through Sunday....
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 November 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
The album "Salsa Big Band" credited to Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta does not appear to be on Spotify
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 November 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
I'm back in love with "Imitadora," but definitely despite Romeo Santos' ridiculous shtick.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 27 November 2017 05:29 (six years ago) link
His devoted fans like it, I guess
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/lists/music/best-latin-songs-of-2017/
#2. "Tú y Yo" - La Favi
#3"Mi Gente" - J Balvin, Willy William
#4 "Soy Peor" - Bad Bunny
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
Those Armada Fania remixes mentioned upthread are fire btw
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
Cuban jazz pianist David Virelles is on Ben Ratliff ‘s best of album list in Esquire
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 December 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
NY Times jazz critic also has David Virelles on his album list for 2017.
NY Times critic Jon Caramanica has Ozuna on his album list and I think 3 or so Latin trap or reggaeton cuts on his single list.
Not seeing Ruben Blades (not on Spotify) Salsa Big Band album on any list (it won at the Latin Grammys though)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling Latin and Afro-Latin Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 11 December 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link