I know he’s not the biggest reggaeton/trap doing this shift. Bad Bunny has been hinting at an interest in doing pop/rock for quite some time and with guitars making a comeback in 2021 it might be the perfect time to release a song that continues on his “tenemos que hablar” route.
I could also see J Balvin following the guitar trend but we’ll see.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
I don’t know if the audience is more tired of that same old reggaeton/trap beat or the disco pastiche sound though lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
either way i do like the song
― dyl, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Yeah I like it.
Not sick of the reggaeton beat tbh lol
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/N/New-York-and-the-International-Sound-of-Latin-Music-1940-1990
Recent book by Ben Lapidus that author Ned Sublette mentioned he is reading
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
https://cri.fiu.edu/events/2021/teaching-the-cuban-discography-the-archive-as-clave/
Plus a free July 1 online Ned Sublette Cuban records talk
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 12 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
http://www.internationalsalsamuseum.org/advisory-board/
Some folks are trying to create a salsa music museum in the Bronx. They recently had a press conference
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Rauw Alejandro in New York Times article by Isabelia Herrera
He adds house, bolero, baile funk, r‘’n’b to his sound
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/arts/music/rauw-alejandro-vice-versa.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 June 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
my favourite Rauw of the ones I’ve heard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPXwuPc650Rauw Alejandro ft. Mr. Naisgai • 2/Catorcelike it a lot more than “Todo de Ti” upthread(he gets bonus points for his name too. that phonetic spelling of Raúl he goes by happens to also be a Dutch word meaning rough or raw - tho I guess the “raw” association (in English) may be deliberate on his part)
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 June 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
From Rauw's opening phrasing and pauses I can see why Bad Bunny is a fan
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 04:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9Bto5lOEQ
Patria y Vida” is song inspiring Cuban protestors
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
Patria y Vida has been a phenomenon since its release this year. The song is a collaboration between a group of Afro-Cuban reggaeton and hip-hop stars based in Miami, such as Yotuel Romero and Alexander Delgado, along with rappers Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, who live in Cuba. A YouTube video of the song has been viewed nearly 6 million times.
NPR article
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015318087/the-hip-hop-song-thats-driving-cubas-unprecedented-protests
I wonder if song “Patria y Vida” is getting any radio or or online streaming playlist attention outside of Cuban circles ? Or too political & not pop enough for mainstream Latinx marketing?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Old guys & older music nerds are seeing npr, The Guardian, & Rolling Stone articles about song shared online
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
Doh! Heard some Latinx pop and reggaeton I liked in car radio but didn’t figure out who the artists were.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
But since then have been listening to Rauw Alejandro. Critics like to play up the songs that go beyond pop reggaeton , and he deserves credit for trying even if they don’t always work. I like the disco-y “Todo de Ti” and the more minimalist “2/Catorce “ mentioned above or elsewhere on ilx
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 August 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
James Redd may be the only person other than me who cares about this here, or mybe someone else on jazz thread (sent to me by a publicist though, so someone else must care)
The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA), in partnership with Lantern Organization and Mega Development, has announced, along with the New York City Department of Housing Development and Preservation, plans to bring a new 16,000 square feet Afro Latin Music & Arts Center along with 330 affordable housing units to East Harlem. The project, Timbale Terrace, will construct a new mixed-use development on the east side of Park Avenue between East 118th Street and East 119th Street (formerly a NYPD 25th Precinct Parking Site) with a performing arts center operated by the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. Timbale Terrace will offer housing to low-income families while the Afro Latin Music & Arts Center will provide community programs, music and technical production training, after-school programs, free arts education classes, community event spaces, world-class live performances, and more.
The opening of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance's very own Afro Latin Music & Arts Center affords an opportunity to advance a wider range of innovative Latin jazz programs to diverse communities across the metro area. Timbale Terrace consolidates and expands ALJA's varied initiatives offering comprehensive support to their close network of standout musicians and educators in the form of live performances, educational teaching ventures, individual artist grants, and an ability to participate in a citywide lottery for apartments at Timbale Terrace. 50% of the affordable units will be given a community preference status for residents who live in East Harlem. Many teaching artists and musicians will qualify as Timbale Terrace applicants based on their household income.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
RIP Fania label legendary pianist Larry Harlow
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029760076/larry-harlow-salsa-music-icon-dead
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
rauw showed up on the ty dolla $ign/dvsn collab album. he sounds great on the track, but the track itself is pretty lifeless (unsurprising for a murda beatz production)
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Was reading about a Canadian based producer who is mixing reggaeton and afrobeatS together
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
checked out the whole rauw album and it's very good imo. all his genre experiments work to some degree (especially the jungle/garage one), and he's got a stronger voice than basically all the mainstream reggaetoneros at the moment (maybe besides ozuna, but rauw's slightly lower pitch seems more english language-radio-friendly to me).
anyway, big fan of rauw, definitely think he can be the next balvin/bunny level star in this space.
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
I really like this new Marc Anthony song (which is apparently a reworking of an Africando song I've never heard). His scraggly look and newly gravelly voice work well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EarnVR8_Og
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 29 August 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
Have never seen Marc Anthony live and am tempted to see him Friday night at Capital One Arena in DC but Live Nation isn’t requiring vaccinations at arena shows here until October, so I don’t quite feel ready for that ( plus wife and I will be helping out my elderly Mom anyway that night). Another time hopefully.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Interesting. Wanna say I never saw him live, but I did once, sort of.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah Rauw Alejandro “Todas de ti” is pop disco that some say steals from others, but I still like it.
Also I like by others that I have heard on radio lately:Nati Natasha las nenas A Fruko y Tesos remix Tata remix w/ several or more on it
I need to listen to Loud Podcast reggaeton history w/ Ivy Queen
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
they got el alfa and farruko on "si trucho no es trucho remix" and surprise surprise it sounds great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KktT_jxfR8s
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
i like "desenfocado," which kinda sounds like phantogram or something
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
*desenfocao
X-post - I liked Marc Anthony’s scraggly look and his acting in the movie version of “In the Heights “ too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Ife “Fake Blood” on first listen is a kind of interesting mix of various styles w/ rapped lyrics about Black Lives Matter, some auto tuned chants, programmed synth and bass beats , and what sounds like maracas too
Isabelia Herrera in NY Times says it’s a revelation
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 September 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/magazine/dancing-new-york-summer.html
Fascinating to me article on dancing in the pandemic in Nueva York to various Afro-Latinx and black styles with bits about age, race, class and more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 September 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
RIP ROBERTO ROENA 1940-2021 Roberto Roena was a Puerto Rican salsa music percussionist, orchestra leader, and dancer. Was in El Gran Combo and had his own band Su Apollo Sound who had records on Fania
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 September 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
https://latinomusiccafe.com/2010/01/24/the-legend-of-roberto-roena-part-1/
A detailed history sorta of Roena penned awhile ago
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 September 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
As I said in the obituary thread on ILE, I've heard the first 10 Apollo Sound albums and there's not a bad one in the bunch. The guy was a legend for a reason.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 24 September 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Meanwhile in Latin pop
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9635302/2021-billboard-latin-music-awards-full-list-bad-bunny
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 September 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
Camilo got 10 Latin Grammys nominations , Juan Luis Guerra 6 and Bad Bunny 4 ( some others got 4 also)
Leila Cobo in Billboard says:
Overwhelmingly, this year’s nominations lean more toward fusions, reflecting tradition, but also a new Latin pop movement that easily coexists with urban innovators. In sharp contrast to 2020’s reggaetón-heavy slate of nominations, this year, save for Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo’s nomination for album of the year, reggaetón was mostly eschewed in the main categories. The only “urban” nominations in record or song of the year, for example, went to tracks that cross genres, like Rauw Alejandro’s “Todo de Ti,” Maluma’s “Hawai” and Tainy and J Balvin’s “Agua.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/9637170/2021-latin-grammys-nomination/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
C. Tangana received five 2021 Latin GRAMMY® nominations for his breakthrough album ‘El Madrileño’ today. He has been nominated in the “Album of the Year” category, in the “Best Pop/Rock Song” category for “Hong Kong (Feat. Andres Calamaro)”, “Record of the Year” for “Te Olvidaste (Feat. Omar Apollo)” and a double nomination in the “Best Alternative Song” category for “Te Olvidaste” and “Nominao (Feat. Jorge Drexler)."
gonna check C Tangana album out too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-10-06/ivy-queen-spotify-podcast-loud-gets-reggaeton-history-right
This 10 part podcast on the history of reggaeton is hosted by Ivy Queen and has been getting favorable writeups ( from what I have seen) . Alas, it was produced by Spotify
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 October 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
Felix Contreras of npr, writer Julyssa Lopez , and others re how reggaeton artists feel disrespected by Latin Grammys
https://www.kawc.org/post/reggaeton-rules-latinx-music-not-latin-grammys
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Chilean singer Mon Laferte has been living in Mexico since 2007. While her last album had big band arrangements, salsa and some electro , her new one reflects traditional Mexican influences in part.
Washington Post writeup by a freelancer:
“It isn’t only mariachi,” Laferte says. “I tried to showcase music from different regions.” In “Seis,” there are collaborations with La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho, a brass ensemble from Sinaloa, and with Mujeres del Viento Florido, an orchestra formed by Indigenous Oaxacan women. Irreverent, soulful and self-assured, Laferte nails every note on “Seis” with style and originality
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link
Laferte recently I just learned spent some time in Los Angeles and is releasing another album. This time Latin pop for 1940 Carmen album due Oct 29. Her prior one Seis, with the Mexican aspects, came out in April
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW6L_lTrIFg
On this C Tangana tiny desk home concert from some months back, the large ensemble suddenly do some nice a capella singing of New Order “Bizarre Love Triangle “(every time I see …get down on my knees and pray) in the middle
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
Reading Carina del Valle Schorske free subscription email about dancing in NYC. She wrote interesting NY Times magazine article I linked to above a little while ago. Latest email has details related to that article.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
Because of family responsibilities I keep missing N#d S#blette’s Thursday night postmambo online events with movie docs and guest speakers. Tonight he is showing a doc Old Man Bebo about Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
At Birdland for Isaac Delgado now.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 October 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
This is great! I knew some of the horn players but this keyboard player who I still don’t know the name of is killing.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 October 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
Salsa dura, sabrosura!
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Esto es el guaguanco!
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 October 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link