Rolling Afro-Latin Music All Stars - Tribute to Afro-Latin Music Thread 2014 (DVD incl.)

These articles always produce such angry comments:

to be honest, i'd rather the Guardian went back to fumbling awkwardly around proper artists like 3 Chairs than in any way promoting this utterly derivative, awful garage house rip off shite.

That's my new genre: GHROS.

Going further OT, I didn't know Questlove wrote a book about Soul Train. That I might be interested in reading.

Ok, some of that Dj Q stuff is pretty good.

High five! (I don't know where that came from, it's hardly in my vocabulary.) I do like his DJ sets (in general) even more than the individual tracks he's produced, but I'm just not sure what you'd make of some of them. There are links to tons of them on the DJ Q thread.

OK, this paper is kind of awesome. http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/Percussive-Notes-Web.pdf Some of his other related papers are online, will read them as well and maybe splurge for the book.

Not sure I understand his descriptions of rhythms. Will have to read it again.

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

x-post to James Redd-- Rudiph reposted rhythms discussion on the below thread:

boom chicka boom: Rolling Beats, Rhythms, Drums n Handclaps Thread

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.

This is pretty much the only type of "new" salsa worth listening to.

I think I need a copy of this for my car.

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.

Thanks, curmudgeon, will take a look

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.

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...

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

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

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/

ttp://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282597908/first-listen-calle-13-multi_viral

some good, some eh tracks

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.

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

That's an old thread btw, Furtado is not on new Calle 13

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.

Gawker's car blog, Jalopnik, is all pissed off that Residente pushes his Maserati off a cliff in Calle 13's new video.

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.

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.

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. . .

Also bad taste in guitar solos.

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

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.

http://www.negrophonic.com/2014/dj-rupture-enero-2013-cumbia-mix/

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

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

I have been really feeling this lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsbjruwMeA

Also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8igEjpu4u8

Started listening to the 1st thing Hurting posted (the drumming one) and got distracted. Need to get back to these later

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.

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?

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

RIP, Cheo Feliciano, as posted on other threads.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/04/20/dominican-singer-sonia-silvestre-dies--after-two-strokes-at-61/

Dominican ballad singer

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.

Maybe they said he was "retiring," as in "shy."

Ah, that explains it.

finally listened to those percussion-heavy items Hurting posted back in March. Nice enough

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