...is Escándalo, the opener of the 1970 album Pan by Grupo Pan (Venezuela) led by Carlos "Nené" Quintero. Long out of print, this album was recently reissued on vinyl.
14 octubre 2023
07 octubre 2023
La canción de la semana #876
...is Tortuga Mareña by Cantares del Pacífico, a folkloric group from Buenaventura, Colombia led by the marimba player Eryen Korath. This song appears on the album Aguajes de Mar y Manglar.
30 septiembre 2023
La canción de la semana #875
...is Papa Upa by Babalu, Eddy Mar Salsa y Sabor, from the band's 1976 record Tranquilisate. I'd never known who they were if not for Gia Fu's programme Salsa Records From Curaçao, full of equally obscure and wonderfully catchy tunes. I didn't even know they played salsa in Curaçao. Now I know.
22 septiembre 2023
La canción de la semana #874
...is DPM (De Pxta Madre) by Kany García. The song was released two years ago but I first heard it in Kany's recent (and gorgeous) Tiny Desk Concert.
Antonio Alonso: drums, percussion, background vocals José M. Gómez: keyboards, accordion, background vocals Olga I. González: background vocals, shaker, tambourine Bryan Pérez: bass guitar Cristian F. Rivera: music director, steel guitar, ukulele, background vocals Ricardo Rodríguez: classical guitar, background vocals |
15 septiembre 2023
La canción de la semana #873
Irina Bogushevskaya (Ирина Богушевская) sang:
Ах, Рио-Рита! Как высоко плыла ты над нами,
Через страх и озноб, через восторг побед,
Аргентины далёкой привет!
But what Rio Rita has to do with Argentina? Very little. The pasodoble was composed in 1932 by the Catalan Enric Santeugini i Montsalvatge (Enrique Santeugini y Montsalvaje), then resident in Berlin. Originally called Adiós Madrecita (but seriously!), it really became famous as Für dich, Rio Rita (Rio Rita was the name of a dance bar in Tauentzienstraße 12, Berlin), with the German lyrics by Oscar H. Adam. In 1937, the instrumental version by Marek Weber and his orchestra came to the former Soviet Union where it was incredibly popular. By that time, both Weber and Santeugini left Germany.
The song appeared on a B-side of a 78 rpm shellac record, whose A-side was occupied by... Argentina (Ich will ja nichts als deine Liebe) by Santiago Lopez, also performed by Marek Weber. (Neither composer was credited on a Soviet disc. Typical.) Maybe that explains the Rio Rita-Argentina connection?
07 septiembre 2023
La canción de la semana #872
...is Frágil by Yahritza y su Esencia and Grupo Frontera. An alternative version of this song is closing Yahritza's recent Tiny Desk Concert.
01 septiembre 2023
La canción de la semana #871
I've been listening to this album by 2 Caras — in fact, the only album by 2 Caras — for I don't know how many years. How come I never shared a song on this blog? So, here you are: Chimango from Tango Ska.
23 agosto 2023
La canción de la semana #870
...is La Llama del Amor by Omar Montes with Jairo deRemache and Farruquito. I first heard this song in Omar Montes' fabulous acoustic — sans autotune! — Tiny Desk Concert (17 August 2023).
| Omar Montes: vocals Oscar Barrul: vocals, palmas Javier Campos: saxophone, flute Jose del Curro: vocals, palmas Eduardo Figueroa: cajon Cesar Galvez: flamenco guitar Roberto Lorenzo: trombone Marcos Ortega: trumpet Alejandro Paez: bass guitar |
18 agosto 2023
La canción de la semana #869
...is the traditional Garifuna song Maya Hatina (They Can't Bake Cassava) performed by Lebeha Drummers from Hopkins Village, Belize. This song appears on the band's new album Biama — another discovery thanks to Songlines. I find its simple lyrics strangely inspiring.
Maya HatinaMaya Hatina Mebura Hatina. |
They Can’t Bake CassavaI haven’t worked and I don’t bake. |
11 agosto 2023
La canción de la semana #868
A ver, a ver... A Mover la Colita was composed by Miguel Orlando Iacopetti and Luis Alberto Sarmiento and made famous in the 1980s by the likes of La Sonora Dinamita and Wilfrido Vargas. My favourite version is the one by the Ecuadorian band Onda Latina. How did I live all these years and haven't heard this song until now — more precisely, until last month thanks to the French company Le G. Bistaki who used it in their show «Baïna[na]» — is a mystery.
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