I don't actually plan on talking about danzon very much, and I know next to nothing about candombe, but if others want to run with those, this the place to do it.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 January 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ok
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 January 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
last night was my first non-school related salsa social (it only took ~3 years to get up the nerve to do this), jimmy anton's in nyc. think i'm hooked, going to check out taj lounge mondays in midtown tonight - willy's nyc salsa project is the house band and henry knowles is the dj, he was mentioned a few times in last year's thread. vanessa williams "can't live without" this place.
afterwards may check out MUNCHI as he's in town. does moombahton get a spot in this thread? not that i really have anything to say on the subject.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
last night was my first non-school related salsa social (it only took ~3 years to get up the nerve to do this)
Wow, I assumed you were out doing this sort of thing regularly. I guess if I had started dancing in NYC I would have been that much more nervous about it, given the high standards there. And to be honest, I started salsa classes in late 1997 and didn't start going to clubs regularly until 2000 (after I had a few months of private lessons under my belt).
Unfortunately, I announced my return to dancing a little prematurely. I haven't been doing it, mostly for my usual health reasons. (Also, partly because of not having a car, but that's about to change, though it will probably take three years before I feel comfortable driving.)
Feel free to talk about moombhahton all you want on this thread. I can't take it entirely seriously.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Incidentally, the reason I've never commented on those dance clips you've posted is that I never clicked on them; and the reason I never clicked on them is that it's too frustrating to watch that sort of thing when I'm not getting to go out dancing.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Frequent lurker speaks up to offer support in non-dancing frustration. I have yet to work up the nerve to go dancing in Chicago because I don't have anyone to go with and going alone just seems like a bad idea. I wonder if the pressure is different for men and women? I have never taken lessons, but I can follow pretty much anyone. Can't lead though!
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe you just have to courageously go it alone and take lessons.
As I once said upthread, the problem for me is that to become a decent dancer I would have to do it multiple times a week, and between parenting and freelance writing and work and other interests I can't seem to do that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess dancing has just moved back on my list of things to do, maybe it can wait til summer.
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
La Lechera, are you male or female? (Obviously the user name suggests the latter.) If you are female and that confident in your following, I see no reason not to get out there and give it a try. How about taking a group class and using it to try to meet other women (if you are a woman) to go dancing with as a group?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i am female! honestly, i could do that, but it would take a lot of socializing effort. i'm not sure i'm up for that, tbh. i work in an environment that is full of people from all over latinoamérica -- people should just invite me to more parties/weddings. clearly that is the solution.
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 3 January 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been taking a lot of classes for the the past year or two, around eight hours a week not including five hours of rehearsal since joining the company - but i've been a "professional student" only going to school-related functions until now. i'd actually forgotten that being able to social dance and come up with my own turn patterns thinking on my feet was the entire point of getting into all of this.
i don't think anyone has to worry about going to salsa events alone - assuming it's really a dancing spot, from everything i've seen and heard they tend to be very open and friendly and not a meat market. most people don't stick to dancing with a single person or the people they came with, it's all about switching it up and dancing with different dancers at different levels and speeds to add variety to your own dancing - and to just meet people, it's fun. girls ask guys to dance and vice versa, and no one turns anyone down unless they're taking a break. no socializing involved, walk up or a person walks up to you, hands extend, and head to the floor.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
this was the spot i went to on sunday, jimmy anton's - it turns 17 years old in february. the guy in this video is coincidentally on my team. the first follower, magna is "salsa famous" or whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPdUaFWBhe8
― fauxmarc, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
dang
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think anyone has to worry about going to salsa events alone - assuming it's really a dancing spot, from everything i've seen and heard they tend to be very open and friendly and not a meat market. most people don't stick to dancing with a single person or the people they came with, it's all about switching it up and dancing with different dancers at different levels and speeds to add variety to your own dancing
I wouldn't say this was true at salsa clubs in Philadelphia. At other types of salsa events, maybe, but at clubs I often saw people mostly sticking together. It varied though. It wasn't hopeless, but if you hit a bad night, it could be hard finding dances. I suppose Fridays and Saturdays tended to be worse because they were more standard date nights, whereas Wednesday was generally the best night for dancing (at least at the particular club I went to the most).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Not to be discouraging or anything.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you both male? I imagine the dynamics are pretty different depending on gender.
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Monday, 3 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, both male, unless fauxmarc has assumed a false identity.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think i have. i don't think.
― fauxmarc, Monday, 3 January 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
last night was fun but i think someone was subbing in for knowles dj'ing.
really into this cumbia blog http://cumbiapoder.blogspot.com/
the latest post is a really well-produced interview with chucho ponce of los daddys de chinantla. in spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qym76YaV1UQ
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
a club mix i put together. now realize i don't own much bachata or merengue.
zion y lennox - yo voy colegiala feat. daddy yankee [dj melo blend]la excelencia - unidadbachata heightz - me puedo matar (feat. hector acosta)calle 13 - baile de los pobresfuego - ya te olvidenegrito cuarto bate - pa' santo domingokastrofobia - entrando a la discothe 13th tribe - african connections feat. ajk + safa [plastic rat mix]disquedj - romance de nalguitastewie griffin - bang dat shitdj galgo lazer - brigitón [seiji vs vico c vs tego calderon]speedy - sientelo feat. lumidee [melo's moombahton edit]los rakas - como entran los rakas [deluxemaniac rmx]orquesta souvenir - el cantante y la orquestamu gen - fizzdom (munchi remix)daddy yankee - le gusta a la mujer (feat. yaga & mackie)zonora point - white trash [douster mix]los daddys de chinantla - solo por tidj soso - toque pa' que choqueantipop consortium - capricorn one [mixter pan cumbia edit]guajiros del puerto - bombadaniel haaksman feat. seguindo sonhos - hands up (erick rincon remix)
― fauxmarc, Monday, 10 January 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
What Omega Fuerte releases do people recommend? Was looking at Amazon and was a bit confused- saw a 2010 dvd, some prior releases with su Mambo Violente, etc.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i've only had omega y el mambo violeno - el fuerte (2009) which i guess is most hits + a remix or two.
feel i should check out this one
― fauxmarc, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Can it really be. . . ? A new Son de Cali song worth listening to? Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjCATQ3YdrA
They're going deep into Afro-Colombian music here.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(Okay, not that I really know much about Afro-Colombian music, but this is at least one layer down from the more familiar cumbia or even champeta.)
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Although truthfully their vocals are the least enjoyable part of this for me (and generally their vocals are a big part of why I like some of their salsa songs). Mostly I'm just enjoying it for the relative novelty of this particular strand of folkloric music, and the maybe not so folkloric addition of a horn section. I'm not even sure what this style is called.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
me neither but i'm into it
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoying dj dice out of chicago, lots of cumbia + moombah + guarachero stuff
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post
This is a decent collection with other music in the same style (or closely related ones):
http://www.amazon.com/Pacifico-Colombiano-Music-Adventures-Afro-Colombia/dp/B001EMW47A/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1294765091&sr=1-1
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It's probably currulao.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
It sounds like some tracks on this might be pretty good:
http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/24178.10
I'm not too keen on English-language salsa, or half-assed seeming throwbacks to Willie Colon gangsta salsa mumbo-jumbo, but still, there seems to be some good stuff here.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Incidentally, I downloaded the DJ Dice mix, but haven't gotten to listen yet.
Oh, here's a muspace page for Sonido Criminal: http://www.myspace.com/sonidocriminal
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, no, I downloaded your mix. Just checking out DJ Dice now. I like this "Cumbiason Guarachero" so far.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel the original that it draws from is a cumbia i hear out all the time but i don't know what it is or who does it.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I am experimenting with the listeningroom site forksclovetofu started a thread about. I tried adding a whole bunch of tracks at once but that appeared to crash things. I am picking from my abortive most recent attempts at my "salsa y mas" mixes:
http://listeningroom.fettig.net/room/Rumba%20Room/
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This thing has a lot of bugs as pointed out already by others. I guess this isn't going to work out for now.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
On the other hand, I'm thinking maybe I will post these things at some point, because I do still like these tracks. Some of this is from 2006, which seems really long ago, I guess partly because I've moved since then.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope you people are planning on voting in ILM's 2010 poll.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm listening to an Orquesta Versalles album from 1983 (what sounds like a crude vinyl rip of it). Never heard of them before, but so far it's totally hitting the spot. Yet another reminder of how much good-to-great back catalog salsa there is.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
& how much things suck now.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
And this Orquesta Versalles is charanga no less, not my favorite stuff generally. (Granted, it's a very New York/Fania sort of charanga, not exactly on the pure end of the charanga spectrum.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course the only song from this album that seems to be on youtube is an English language cover, "Lady"--yes, that one.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 15 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
im in puerto escondido in mexico and the club next to my hostel is playing this music thats kinda like rave but with sped-up salsa beats like horses galloping. what is it?
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it tribal (their tribal)? That doesn't sound like salsa beats to me though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IoXKOKFjsE
Not sure what else it would be. I don't know of anything rave-y but with salsa beats, though that could be interesting. I do think this tribal guarachero sounds a bit like horses galloping.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2010/08/what-it-tribal-guarachero
i cant listen to any of the sound files on the page above but that sounds about right. maybe im thinking its salsa beats because im thinking everything here MUST have a salsa beat. its the first music ive heard here that i dig to be honest although i like the bassy chugging strain of salsa that you can hear pumping out of clubs here, so theres hope for me yet.
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think salsa is big in Oaxaca, actually, or most of Mexico for that matter. (There could be pockets of salsa enthusiasm I don't know about though, and it could also be something for tourists.) Is it possible it's merengue or cumbia or banda (the stuff that sounds like salsa, I mean, not this other more electronic stuff)?
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
possibly, its all new to me. i thought merengue and cumbia were strains of the salsa beat, no?
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Some people use salsa in that broad sense, but I consider salsa something separate. I normally use it in a narrower sense which requires that it is in son clave (3/2 or 2/3, though there are heated arguments about whether there really are two distinct directions like that). Sorry, I'm sure this is sounding very pedantic, but on a practical level it makes perfect sense for someone to say to me: "You know I hate merengue, wait until the next salsa song comes on and ask me to dance then" (something I've heard, give or take the exact wording, on more than one occasion). Salsa's basic rhythmic foundation is Cuban. Merengue is Dominican. Cumbia is Colombian.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
But anyway, tribal guarachero is quite new to me, but I like almost everything I've heard, and I don't generally like electronic dance music, so it's kind of a nice bridge for me. Or if not a bridge exactly, it's nice to be able to like something that has some of those sounds but also rhythms and sounds closer to what I typically like.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd think it's more likely to just be cumbia if the difference isn't known? although i wouldn't deny anyone a spontaneous public hearing of tribal.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol:
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2010/TXVuZGlhbA==/
I'm pleased that Kogan has discovered this album. But only two votes? For shame.
0 votes for Fuego's, which seems a bit extreme.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I admit I don't follow his writing (or any other music critic's really). Maybe there is a case to be made, maybe. (Also, wow, I didn't know he was their lead music critic, but at the same time I'm hardly surprised he would end up in such a position.)
― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 14 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
OK, so maybe New York magazine just needs to get someone else with the inclination or aptitude to write about Latin music on occasion.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I have been secretly glad that not to many ilxors or rock critics in general are that interested in Latin music as it has thereby been spared the critical meat-grinder, hall-of-mirrors treatment that some other genres have gotten. But maybe this book will change that.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
btw just realized this weekend that a lot of Fania stuff is on spotify. Actually it was because of that Will Hermes book- I couldn't be bothered to dig up my own copy of Hommy so I just got it the other way.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I like how the NY Times uses a variety of writers to cover a broad range of genres. Not that I have examined New York mag that closely, and maybe they don't have the money or space to have a bunch of folks covering the broad range of what is available in the Big Apple.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't followed where Peter Watrous went, is he at the Nation now? At one point he got really into Latin music. I guess he writes for the descarga website.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Good question. I only see his writing at Descarga. The Village Voice back in the 80s used to have a writer who sometimes wrote about Latin music in his column, and later a guy who is now at the NY Daily News or Newsday I think, wrote about Latin music for them.I am spacing out on their names.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Ed Morales?
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I used to read the New York magazine in my old doctor's office and what I mostly remember was articles about investment bankers struggling to make ends meet (*sniff*) and colorful nightclub owners/drug dealers involved in high-profile murder cases. I don't think music is that much of a focus, and I don't think they are going for that culturally diverse of an audience, but then again I haven't read it much lately.
― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Pablo Guzman?
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, and Enrique Fernandez wrote for the Voice way back when. I wonder if onetime ILXor (and I now think music editor)Maura has anyone doing so now. Guzman too, although his writing annoyed me for some reason.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
There was some guy with a Spanish name whose old Paz & Jop ballots had lots of clued-in salsa titles on them, but I forget the name. Might have been Guzman.
― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
I think it would be depressing to be covering Latin music in NYC right now, but maybe if it were my job I'd find plenty to write about. "In New York, I took your photograph" says Kate Bush on another channel running parallel to this message.
― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
From around 2004 till 2008 I was doing freelance concert reviews for the Washington Post and we had to pitch our ideas for say, in the month of December, by early November. Lots of Latin shows at out of the way places were not publicized that far in advance, but I did find some that I pitched and reviewed. Then they cut back on their freelancer hires (including me) and the amount of reviews and so they have less coverage of Latin music now.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I bought the Romeo Santos solo debut on my lunch break and listened to some of it in the car. And. . . drum roll. . . I think it's going to be a little too slick and romantic for me overall. But I still mostly liked what I heard. I am definitely a sucker for the guitar sounds. (Also bought the new Miranda Lambert, for the record.)
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of slick, I seriously might buy the new Paulina Rubio album tomorrow. And from the total opposite perspective, I got my copy of the 2CD Ismael Rivera compilation from Fania in today's mail.
Re the critical issue, Rob Harvilla reviewed one of Aventura's sold out Madison Square Garden shows for the Village Voice a while back, and did a good job. I'm planning on pitching a review of La Oreja de Van Gogh when they play next month, though they're Spanish-language rock, not anything we'd normally discuss in this thread. I also tried to interest Pitchfork in a Latin column at one point, but got the cold shoulder.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
The Rivera set looks good. I don't know his catalog that well, so I don't recognize everything, but definitely see some favorites. Some of the early material is frankly a little hard for me to get into, mostly because of the voz de vieja (if I have that right) in the chorus, the nasal old lady voices they do. A bit too authentic for me. The rhythms are another matter.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
I also tried to interest Pitchfork in a Latin column at one point, but got the cold shoulder.
Maybe a rolling Afro-Latin group letter-writing campaign (lead by curmudgeon) would work. I don't look at Pitchfork much so I don't know exactly how much Latin music they cover, but I'd be for more, I'm sure, and you've listened and written about it enough by now to be a worthy contributor (plus you are fluent in music a bit closer to home for the target audience).
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
I reviewed Aventura live for the Washington Post sometime between 2004 and 2009 (and Willie Colon, salsa violinist Alfredo de la Fe, Joe Arroyo, Oscar D'leon, several reggaeton acts and Los Tigres del Norte). They've had others review a few shows since then (but not too many). As for Pitchfork:
I don't recall every seeing any Latino coverage there. They have increased their rap coverage, and they have a column on British grime and dance stuff, and they reviewed a moombahton comp, but that's about it. I complained to Pitchfork when they got rid of their reggae/dancehall column and got ignored. They have a writer named Joe Tangari who does occasional reviews of African music.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
I wish Romeo Santos would just shut up and sing.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
It's time for someone new to steal this basic sound, modify it significantly, and cut out some of the ridiculousness.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I wish I had not bought this, because his little slogan tics annoy me so much. I would probably dance to a bunch of these songs, but to actually sit through an entire album of this stuff is too much.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry. I'm sure there will/are others trying to do the same thing. I'm listening to Michael Stuart's new one on Spotify. No bachata-r'n'b there.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
I should just listen to the music of my people, which I guess would be indie rock, but noooooooooooooooo. . . Please not that.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Why not? I heard it's coming back in style.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
Here's Billboard's tropical album chart (Prince Royce is #1; onetime Mexican teen idol Cristian Castro tops the Latin album pop chart btw). Omega is at 6 and Michael Stuart is at 7
http://www.billboard.com/charts/latin-albums#/charts/tropical-albums
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
that's damn embarrassing that omega's able to chart with basically the exact same album from 2009
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Yep. The Aventura collection I can understand.
So I wonder if any press person has asked those Latin jazz guys outraged by their category being dropped from the main Grammys, if they have made any attempts at inroads with the Latin Grammys?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
latin grammys hadLatin jazz album: "Panamericana Suite," Paquito D'Rivera
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
bbbbbb....but he did not get to perform (they would say). Although I think Latin jazz seems to be stuck in a rut (some might disagree or think well, what do you want it to do?).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i'd just forgotten what the specific issue was (not having any category vs not having airtime)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
You're right, it was not having a specific category. I am just guessing that they might want more.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
If we want to read about old-school Latin music, I see that the new issue of Wax Poetics is their Latin issue with a photo of Eddie Palmieri on the cover (the photo looks to be of him from a long time ago). Bio Ritmo are in it too
http://www.waxpoetics.com/wax-poetics-magazine/issue-49
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Raquel Z. Rivera doing music now and keeping a newish blog:
http://cascabeldecobre.blogspot.com/
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Location. Ahem.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Your new neighbor
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Totally missed this project and its CD from last year:
http://www.ojosdesofia.com/
Not necessarily what you might expect.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 19 November 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.rhapsody.com/latin/
Rhapsody's Latin music blog
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Have your anti-virus program(s) update before clicking on that thread. Maybe it was a coincidence, but some sort of attack was blocked just as I loaded that page.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Not too impressive. You should check out Ojos de Sofia. Newly composed songs with a folkloric foundation. You might like it.
― Skrill of FedEx (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 19 November 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Will do.
WPFW dj and Jazz Times writer Larry Appelbaum was in Cuba last week. He's been posting videos on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdUJaQqEXys&feature=related
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 November 2011 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
god damn the michi sarmiento record is just straight fire
banger after banger after banger after banger
what i would not give to be in a sweaty back-porch club with these guys swinging away and the dance floor going absolutely mental!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 October 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Ooh I need to check that out. He's great.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 17 October 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Yes!!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
Wait you mean the one that I already have (67-77) or is there a new one? I looked and didn't find anything but I spent about 30 sec looking
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
I spent 45 seconds looking and didn't see anything else, so Tracer's probably referring to that 67 to 77 Soundways Sarmiento comp that came out in 2011 (which is why he posted it on this 2011 thread I guess)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
ha! i am so confused. the time between 2011 and now has certainly flown by, i'll say that much
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 21 October 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Me too. Still wondering why this thread was revived and current thread not used.
― Wig Wag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Vamanos pal hilo Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2016: Salsa, Bomba, Merengue,Reggaeton, Bachata, Latin-Jazz and more
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
The complex Spanish at the beginning of the thread probably threw him off.
― Wig Wag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link