Naming names

According to Lonely Planet's Canary Islands Travel Guide, 4^th edition, p. 31:

Although the term Canario has come to designate all of the islanders, it once referred more strictly to the people of Gran Canaria alone (now more often as not referred to as Grancanarios or Canariones). The people of Tenerife are Tinerfeños; those of Lanzarote are not Lanzaroteños but Conejeros; Fuerteventura, Majoreros (from the Guanche name for much of the island, Maxorata); La Gomera, Gomeros; and El Hierro, Herreños.

Unfortunately, this text misses Isla de La Palma, whose inhabitants, I believe, should be named Palmeras (f) and Palmeros (m).

La canción de la semana #166

...is Libertá by Novalima. This song appears on band's new album Coba Coba.

La canción de la semana #165

...is Cumbamba played by the legendary Ray Barretto (1929—2006) and his band.

La canción de la semana #164

Orlando "Cachaíto" López, who died on 9 February 2009 in Havana, was a Cuban double bass player who appeared on each of Buena Vista Social Club records and took part in every BVSC tour since 1997 till 2008. His motto was "siempre con swing". This week's theme, Tumbanga, co-written by and featuring Miguel "Angá" Díaz and Hugh Masekela, is taken from his only solo album, Cachaíto, which won the Best Artist in the Americas category of the BBC Radio 3 Award for Word Music in 2002.

La canción de la semana #163

It is great to see my (and this blog's) favourite artists in Songlines Music Awards 2009 list of nominees: Lila Downs (in Best Artist category), Ska Cubano (in Cross-Cultural Collaboration) and Buika (in Newcomer category). However, until now, I never heard (of) Los Desterrados, the London-based "Sephardic flamenco fusion" collective who were nominated as the Best Band. This week's song, Mi Suegra, La Negra, opens the band's new album, Miradores.

La canción de la semana #162

According to the Wikipedia,

Africando is a musical project formed in 1992 to unite New York-based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists... the goal of Africando was to merge salsa rhythms from both sides of the Atlantic, mainly based on the African salsa tradition.

This week's song is Ntoman featuring the legendary Malian singer Salif Keita.

Kirill

La canción de la semana #161

The music of Señor Coconut (Uwe Schmidt, resident of Santiago de Chile) is so ridiculous that it is simply great. He takes the international rock and pop hits and makes a Latin party out of them. Here, listen to Humo en el Agua played as Cha-Cha-Cha and you will forget the original. More Coconut, please.

La Línea '09

La Línea - The London Latin Music Festival opens Wednesday 1 April with Novalima!

La canción de la semana #160

No, I did not run out of Spanish-language music, it is just I have an urge to share with you some, I'd say, mesmerising jazz experience. Last week I was in Barcelona and my friends took me to Jamboree to see Clara Sallago Quartet (actually, a quintet: Marcel·lí Bayer was playing sax). One of the songs they were performing was Love me or Leave Me.

Kirill

Flamenco Festival London 09

This year, the Flamenco Festival in Saddler's Wells features Antonio Gades' Carmen, Ballet Nacional de España, Rocío Molina, Estrella Morente and Eva Yerbabuena. Fantastic.

Kirill