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.
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
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.
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
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
Cuba Te Llama, from the album Night of the Living Mambo by Mamborama. (According to founder Bill Wolfer, he came across the name "Mamborama" in Vienna but since has discovered that Tito Puente had an album by the name of Mamborama! back in '50s.)
Kirill
This week, it's Chick Corea's Spain. There are zillion interpretations of this composition, starting from the original (and still awesome) 1972 version from Light as a Feather and right through this 2006 duo of Chick and Hiromi Uehara. Now, can anyone point me to free sheet music of Spain on the web?
Kirill
Descarga total (listen and watch the video!) from the album of the same name by the Cuban flautist and bandleader Orlando "Maraca" Valle. Maraca appears on VI Tampere International Salsa Festival — thanks to him, now I know that such thing exists.
Kirill
...is Teach The Children performed by Katiuska, El Medico and Kuva Man To Man. This song appears on Reggaeton: the Cuban Revolucion and, as you may hear for yourself, features an interpolation of Pink Floyd's "We don't need no education". The message, however, is very different.
Kirill
