Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2020: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx

Los Straightjackets are good , but are coming at it from a different cultural perspective- white guys into rockabilly, surf, Mexican wrestling masks and more.

At least I think they’re all Anglo.

But you’re right that via their Rock En Espanol effort what they’re doing is related.

All of the records and live sets that I've heard tend to go toward what John Storm Roberts called the Spanish tinge of American pop-rock continuity, in the time frame they draw from----I mean for inst, in the surfabilly stuff, Dick Dale was not shy about crediting the influence of his Middle Eastern background, but that of course also goes around the Med to Spain, Mexico, California, surfacing also in their Spaghetti Western themes and so on---they're not deep, or trying to be, but it's fun and they know what they're doing.

(Although I'm no doubt subject to the power of suggestion as well.)

Via author/musician Ned Sublette's newsletter: Israel Berriel González died of a heart attack in Jovellanos, Cuba Dec 18. A top Cuban rumba & ritual singer/composer of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, & previously w/Afro Cuba de Matanzas, Berriel was born on Sept 21, 1937

Burning Ambulances (unperson) tweeted:

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Watched the first episode of the Netflix series ROMPAN TODO - a 6 part documentary about Latin American rock - and it's pretty great, going all the way back to the late '50s and ending in about 1970-71. Reviews suggest later episodes are patchier, but I'm liking it so far.
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Also check for inst Caifanes, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Soda Stereo, 60s bands like Traffic Sound.

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The Latin rock of the 1990s and early 2000s really was something. Café Tacvba played one of the best live shows I've ever seen, and even on a latter-day reunion tour, Maldita Vecindad were amazing.
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X-post — I wrote up Los Munequitos back in 2002 when they came to DC. Was a good show as I recall. Traditional Cuban rumba with great percussion that was danceable

Got turned onto the Ranil compilation via Bandcamp's year-end list, it's sweet.

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/ranil-y-su-conjunto-tropical-limited-dance-edition

https://theundefeated.com/features/jazz-musicians-see-signs-of-hope-despite-repeated-questions-about-its-popularity/

I enjoyed this the few times I watched. Am guessing James Redd watched em even more. From the Undefeated article:

Arturo O’Farrill, for instance, launched a weekly Virtual Birdland Concert Series as he led the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, a labor-intensive effort that involved 18 musicians filming and recording their individual parts before turning their work over to a sound engineer and video editor who worked 40-hour weeks to put on a concert.

The series, an extension of the orchestra’s normal Sunday night gig at New York’s Birdland club, was launched to raise money for an emergency musicians fund organized by O’Farrill, a four-time Grammy winner, and his nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.

“We had musicians giving of themselves when they themselves were hurting, all in order to help their colleagues,” O’Farrill said. “We’ve had episodes with musicians in five different countries participating — a percussionist in Kuwait, a singer in Paris, a trumpet player in London, and a guitar player in Abu Dhabi, and musicians here — all performing one piece at the same time in a way that you couldn’t do except by amassing a huge debt in airplane tickets.

“Initially we didn’t think this would live in the confines of a computer,” O’Farrill said. “But it has reached people who could never afford in a thousand years to come to New York to the real Birdland. This has truly been one of the very best things I’ve ever experienced.”

x-post- ooh , will give a listen to Ranil,70s era Peruvian cumbia w/ influences from Brazil and Colombia

You guessed right, although I took a break for a while.

Seems like there is a special Xmas one starting right now.

Cuban salsa and timba lives:

HIT PARADE (LISTA DE ÉXITOS) DE SALSA Y TIMBA, OCTUBRE 2020
1.DEJA LA MAGIA (Pupy y los que son) 2.- ME DA LA GANA, Barbaro Y MAYIMBE 3.- RAZA – @HavanaDePrimera 4.- SUFRIENDO TU AMOR- @elnino_laverdad 5.- LABIO DE MIEL , Leo Vera 6.- CALLAITOS . @PauloFGoficial pic.twitter.com/BqJmjLKq7x

— SALSA Y TIMBA OFICIAL (@salsaytimbaperu) October 31, 2020

I saw Cuban timba group Pupy y Los Que Son years ago and they were great. I think Pupy was once in Los Van Van

only found out about this banger just now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCufThTuB3M
El Alfa ft. Chael Produciendo • Singapur

because of this remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3niVHCdB1wA
El Alfa ft. Chencho Corleone, Myke Towers & Justin Quiles (& Farruko) • Singapur (Remix)

¡¡¡Singapurrrrrr!!!

(note to self: this happens when you only pay very casual attention to reggaeton)

Vocal is a little to squeaky for me

Bad Bunny finished at 128 in album poll on Facebook called Village Voice Pazz & Jop Rip-off Poll. Too many folks voting there just into US and UK pop and rock and crossover rap ( Run the Jewels) that critics like ( Fiona Apple, Waxahatchee)

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