yamulee's performance from the philly salsafest is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIuwz59zgE0
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 3 November 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Received an email about bachata group Optimo appearing out in Hyattsville, MD November 10. Eh, can't excited enough to listen, although maybe I should give 'em a try.
Unrelated:
I see that Puerto Ricans voted to seek US statehood yesterday. Wonder if anything will come of that?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen a few comments that us reportings on the vote had a lot of fallacies in terms of the actual numbers and that the majority really didn't vote for statehood. dunno the specific deets. also: FTW if puerto rico becomes a state before dc.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I now see that it is discussed over on ILE:
I don't fully understand what's going on in Puerto Rico. . .
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot the Latin Grammys started at 8 US eastern time on Univision. Probably nothing surprising. Just turned it on at 10:20 and saw a cowboy hat act with an accordionist in the band performing. Mexican or Mexican-American I am guessing. Not bad
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't catch the name of the sappy female pop balladeer I just watched. Pepe Aguilar just won best ranchera album. They speak Spanish too fast for me. A schlocky rock band is on now with a grey-haired 60 something male singer and a spikey haired 60 something woman singer. The chorus is actually kinda catchy.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
If I am reading my Toy Selectah tweets correctly 3Ball Mty won best new artist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Brazilian Caetano Veloso performing with a big band. This is great.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
Alt-pop singer Carla Morrison just won an award. I think I would like her. The little sample they played as she came onstage resembled Julieta Venegas. I think one of the hosts just interviewed 3Ball Mty
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Juanes' MTV unplugged album just won album of the year. Caetano veloso and Carla Morrison were 2 of the many acts nominated
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
fuckin' juanes man
― fauxmarc, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yep
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewId40ega0
3Ball Mty and too many guests
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.latingrammy.com/en/winners/113
Luis Enrique won best salsa album
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
Don Omar won best Urban album over the below nominees
MTO2 New GenerationDon Omar [Machete Music]La BalaAna Tijoux [Nacional Records]The Most Powerful RookieFarruko [Siente Music]The Original Gallo Del PaísTego Calderón [Jiggiri]Otro Nivel De Música ReloadedJ Álvarez [Nelflow Records/Codiscos]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe a few decent videos will pop up from the performances; but probably not many are worth seeing
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Restaurant I am eating at has a Bacalao special tonight so I made them play "Te conozco" off Cosa Nuestra.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of food, reading a reference to pigeon peas in Love Goes to a Building on Fire has me regretting not buying any when I just saw 'em in a Caribbean/African international grocery store.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Acts appearing locally who I don't know much about:
Thurs. Nov. 22
*Thanksgiving cumbiabomba bash with live cumbia band from Mexicoa La Sabroso Sabrosura + DJ Jaime Flores (Peru) AKA K-593. (live music that circumnavigates cumbia, reggae, funk, and electro)9PM at Tropicalia
*Aniceto Molina at the Palace in Woodbridge__________________________________________________________Fri. Nov. 23
* Los Rieleros at at the Palace in Woodbridge
*Bachata Heights at Cococabana
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
bachata heightz is pretty popular, i'm sort of under the opinion they're the biggest pop bachata group next to aventura (but i don't really know at all)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks wiki: Aniceto Molina is an accordion playing bandleader from Colombia who lives in San Antonio now and comes to the DC area frequently. Los Rieleros are a Mexican norteno band.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Love Goes to a Building on Fire
That book is going to make me even more unsympathetic toward the rock/punk/bohemian ethos. "And then Patti Smith spit on the floor. . . And then [some third rate nobody singer] hit an audience member with the mike stand. They threw food in the hotel room."
Oh, wow, man.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
The musicians from other genres don't come off sounding so bad, generally, but the rockers seem like a bunch of assholes.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care about most of those bands anyway.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm checking out the Billboard charts this morning--Romeo Santos and other bachata and merengue performers are dominating the tropical album chart (a Ruben Blades live album/dvd is there too; although its old I think); and the top Latin song is "Algo me gusta de ti" by Wisin y Yandel with Chris Brown and T-Pain. Nothing too surprising
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Is there any reggaeton left that is not Euro-dance club influenced?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
I heard this bachata cover on the radio:
Be My Baby by Lala Rodriguez
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
She and others will probably re-do the whole Phil Spector Christmas album bachata-style next
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I heard that on the radio recently too and wondered who was singing -- is that the same person who did "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think Leslie Grace did the bachata version of "Will You Stll Love Me Tomorrow" (if my google search is correct)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Saw old-timers El Gran Combo near W. DC. many years ago and thought they were great, and they're back there tonight at Cococabana. They're busy touring the East coast, were in North carolina last night and are gonna be back in DC itself at the Howard Theatre in a few months.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think they have a Christmas album coming out. I wish they'd just put out a regular album, it's too easy to hide behind Christmas album conventions and muddle through. There has been a small flurry of big name releases for the end of the year. Gilberto Santa Rosa has a new album out, and going by the no-nonsense cover I was hoping it might be a mostly salsa dura recording, but no such luck, at least from what I heard of it last night. (It's already on Spotify.) Ismael Miranda and Victor Manuelle both have Christmas albums out. Hard not to yawn.
This Sammy Gonzalez reissue looks good, but the audio clips don't make this thing sound that carefully re-mastered:
http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/24986.10?n3Sr4xmc;;402
I am way overdue to buy a few salsa CDs/downloads so I can stop listening to the same stuff over and over again in the car.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
cuba bans vulgar / degrading music from the airwaves
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-04/reggaeton-banned-in-cuba-as-castro-cracks-down-on-music.html
― fauxmarc, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
latina.com's 25 greatest afro-latino musicians of all time
i haven't read through because it's an obnoxious paging through for each entry. only went there because i was appalled when i heard los rakas are on it. i mean they're fine or whatever but in the 25 greatest of all time!?
― fauxmarc, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't visited this thread before, as I have very little to contribute. But, as I'm taking salsa lessons (mostly to get out of the house, I'm very decidedly not very good), I was wandering if anyone here is aware of salsa musicians who sound a part of the 21st century. By which I mean retaining the typical salsa rhythms (not 4/4 bangers with salsa horns), but introducing a bit of electronic novelty or production touches to the arrangements.
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Can answer more at home. See what you think of Michael Stuart's Back to da Barrio. I could recommend a lot of salsa with some electronics here and there or very audible production goings-on, but it isn't necessarily going to sound 21st century.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
How about something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6BShvK3dk
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Or this dubby sort of remix (which is pretty old at this point and you'll probably end up hearing sooner or later if you keep taking salsa classes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeqBKR6a7Ng
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
There's also some salsa with what I consider 80s sounding touches, but you have to tolerate some schmaltz. This is actually a pretty hot track to dance too despite the iffy synths, mostly because the percussion comes in so strong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7yHpxRsFPE
Or this, older one I like a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Hz6ja2kH0
Again, hardly contemporary sounding, but not completely traditional.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
This was good and fairly contemporary sounding to me, but there's been no follow up I know of (though at least some of these guys appeared on Bannakumbi's neglected 2009 debut album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2jeoR_b6w
Bannakumbi w/ Voltio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYT9cjdLjB0
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Having sampled Back to da Barrio I probably should clarify that I'm aware of salsa with digitally crisp production. I was hoping there were unknowns (to me) that remade salsa into their own private soundworld like the late Serbian musician Suba did with bossa nova (Bebel Gilberto's Tanto Tempo, his own São Paulo Confessions).
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Okay. I would say BTDB also draws from R&B/pop production in ways beyond being crisp.
I can't think of anything in salsa as electronic as the Suba things you are talking about. Possibly I wouldn't even hear it as salsa at that point, but I can't think of anything that really fits that I've even heard.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think any of those tracks are going to come close to what you want then.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe Sidestepper? I forget what they sound like though.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't some individuals Grupo Fantasma was collaborating with have a very electronic Latin music project of some sort? Help me remember this. Or maybe it included some Grupo Fantasma members. I don't remember how salsa it was, though. Probably not very.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 10 December 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
May have included members of Antibalas.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 10 December 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
I might be thinking of Ocote Soul Sounds, and in that case it's not what's being asked for either.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 10 December 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
This stuff is Maria Hinojosa catnip.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 10 December 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
Ha. I don't think my local NPR station carries her current program.
Maybe fauxmarc would be aware of salsa that meets the criteria Sanpaku mentioned above:
By which I mean retaining the typical salsa rhythms (not 4/4 bangers with salsa horns), but introducing a bit of electronic novelty or production touches to the arrangements.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
But if what's being looked for is a salsa Suba, that would go well beyond the description you just quoted. That's a lot more than some electronics thrown in here and there as a novelty.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 10 December 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link