Listened to Tainy album Data. It’s instrumental programmed music . Doesn’t wow me, it’s ok
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 21:31 (four months ago) link
Ha. Dumb me....Data is out both as an instrumental version and one with vocals. Near the end of the one with vocals is Bad Bunny rapping over 80s synths on one cut. This is a little more interesting to me.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 December 2023 05:06 (four months ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-music-latin-spanish-artists-2023/
Kiko el Crazy y more
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:12 (four months ago) link
Ned S8blette showed the "Omara" film doc tonight that has just been at movie festivals. It's a doc on Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, who came to fame for many via her role in the Buena Vista Social Club. After the screening on Vimeo, Ned had a Q&A with filmmaker Hugo Perez. A knowledgeable interesting guy. Great doc w/ archival footage, plus recent tour footage of her in NY, NJ, Cuba, Mexico City, South Korea . I didn't know she was the daughter of a white Cuban mother and a black Cuban father. Her mother got excommunicated from her well-to-do White family in 1927 for marrying her Dad. Dad was a baseball player and sang at home with Mom and the kids.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2023 05:35 (four months ago) link
Perez has been a consultant on the off-broadway Buena Vista Social Club onstage theatrical musical show in NYC (despite admitting he didn't love the album or tour-- he felt the big large band's playing overwhelmed Omara's singing). He says it may get on Broadway next fall.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2023 05:38 (four months ago) link
RIP Afro-Colombian champeta & cumbia singer accordionist Lisandro Meza who did an awesome take on Fela's song Shakara called "Shacalao"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YESil_YCixQ
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 December 2023 13:51 (four months ago) link
https://www.time.com/6548823/best-latin-songs-albums-2023/
Time Magazine critic lists fave Latin pop, dance, and rock
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 December 2023 17:36 (four months ago) link
Listened to Mon Laferte again -- like some but not all. She has a range of influences which is good.
Also listened again to Rosalia & ex-fiance Rauw Alejandro ep .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:00 (four months ago) link
Yeah, I kind of feel the same about Mon Laferte, but what I do like, I really like.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:52 (four months ago) link
Just saw elsewhere 2 best of 2023 references to Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast . I haven’t heard it yet and haven’t seen references to it elsewhere here on ILM
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 December 2023 22:16 (four months ago) link
It's 2024, time for a new thread
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2024: Reggaeton, Dembow, Latin Pop, Salsa,Bachata, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 05:11 (three months ago) link