by jorge » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:26 am
Amma McKen "Alaako Oso"
Amma McKen apkwon, with Skip Burney on Iya, Puntilla on congas, also with Larry Washington, Kehinde Baker Fann, Emilio Barreto, Olufemi Mitchell and others. Beautiful bata/guiro recording, mostly African American musicians, just out from NYC.
Los Ases (Aces) de la Timba
Pedro Pablo bass, Mandy Cantero, Tirso Duarte, and Michel Maza singing, with Jorge Torres "Papiosko" on congas. Great timba, with singers taken from several top timba bands in Cuba.
Los Naranjos de Cienfuegos
Mi son tiene piel morena
Outstanding son group from Cienfuegos. When I saw them in Cuba in 1990, one of the musicians was 86 and had been playing with the group for 70 years!
Pupy y los que Son Son
Mi Timba Cerra
El Buenagente
2 great timba recordings, bien sabrosos, some of the coros will hook you.
Los Rumberos de Cuba
Habana de mi Corazon
Rumba/guarapachangueo, some songs are a little too busy in the percussion, others (El Profanador) are killer guarapachangueo de cajones. Great young singer Jesus Lorenzo Peñalver "Cusito".
Mayito Rivera
Llego la Hora
Fantastic salsa/timba from Mayito. Check out the beautiful interaction between Samuel Formell on trap drums and Papacho on congas on Musica and Llego la Hora, a new sound.
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